Electrical equipment work time monitoring

[syamkriz (Syam)]

Dear Experts,

I am new to Home assistant but is a good Linux guy. Kindly help me configure a Device ( Electrical equipment ) work time monitoring dashboard. I would like to know the duration of working of my Geyser and Fans daily weekly and monthly. Is there anyway I can do it ? I have seen a few threads like below but not a concrete answer to my question above.

Possible to query the last time a light was 'on'?

The topic says it all: Is it possible to query the last time a light was ‘on’? I want to create an automation that switches on a light but only if it wasn’t ‘on’ in the last three hours. I currently created an automation that triggers when the light is switched off zo i can see the last time it was on by looking at the automation ast_triggered time but that seems a detour. I’ve looked in the forum and Googled for info but i couldn’t find another way. Is there any way of using light state inf…

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Thanks and Regards
Syam

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

Use an energy monitoring device to collect the data. It should be easy to use the history (database file) to collect the data you want.

[syamkriz (Syam)]

Thanks for the reply. So we cant do it the DIY way with Relay swtiches and Home automation software functionalities ?

[ddaniel (Daniel Dekovic)]

You can use utility meter to cycle daily, weekly and monthly consumption of a device and display data in dashboard.

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

@syamkriz

So we cant do it the DIY way with Relay swtiches and Home automation software functionalities

You can, but why when there is already an easy method using energy monitoring?