Hi, I have a nice looking Energy dashboard with 6 Tapo P110 smart plugs on various sockets in the house. Now I know, relatively accurately, how much the frigde, freezer, router, etc. consume on a daily basis. For that reason, I’d like to move the Tapo plug to other sockets (I don’t want to buy more plugs for now) to learn how much other devices consume. So, what I’m hoping to do, is to create a new device (e.g. Fridge) with a fixed power consumption that will show as consuming a fixed amount of electricity every day in the Energy dashboard. Is this possible?
I’ve found the a text file (\storage\energy) with the energy dashboard code and the list of devices I’ve already added through the Tapo plugs, but I need to create the devices first before adding them. Any help appreciated.
Thanks!
T.
Hi,
You can create a helper with the name Utility Meter
Thanks for the tip. I actually used the Utility meter to create a Peak and Off-peak tariff, but didn’t know it could have other uses. I’ll look into it tomorrow.
T.
You can also use GitHub - bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc: Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances
It has a database of various devices and suggests power and energy entities when it is detecting those devices in your system, but it does also easily allow you to create group entities, or dummy entities, from simple constant energy usage to state dependent ones.