Hi guys, I have a question on doing the initial setup of the energy dashboard. The sensor which is needed for the grid consumption in the first step, is some kind of full total home consumption sensor or something else?
I’m asking because yes, you can add any sensors which meters the power consumption but in the last step you can activate individual device consumption.
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Here is my energy setup. I have a solar system with battery backup and a powerall gateway 2 which supplies power flow from the integration. If you have 100 amp service you can use shelly em with 120 amp current transformer. This will get you the power flowing in. You use a utility meter and a Riemann Integration to get energy. The individual device consumption is to allow you to visualize your power consumption by device. I monitor my A/C (x2), Furnace(x2). Refrgerators, Monitors, coffee bar and washing machine. You can also you powercalc to get fixed energy consumption from lights.
Hope this helps.
{
"version": 1,
"minor_version": 1,
"key": "energy",
"data": {
"energy_sources": [
{
"type": "grid",
"flow_from": [
{
"stat_energy_from": "sensor.yearly_kwh_from_grid",
"stat_cost": null,
"entity_energy_from": "sensor.yearly_kwh_from_grid",
"entity_energy_price": null,
"number_energy_price": 0.10511
}
],
"flow_to": [
{
"stat_energy_to": "sensor.yearly_kwh_to_grid",
"stat_compensation": null,
"entity_energy_to": "sensor.yearly_kwh_to_grid",
"entity_energy_price": null,
"number_energy_price": 0.04203
}
],
"cost_adjustment_day": 0.667
},
{
"type": "solar",
"stat_energy_from": "sensor.solar_energy_produced",
"config_entry_solar_forecast": null
},
{
"type": "battery",
"stat_energy_from": "sensor.yearly_kwh_from_battery",
"stat_energy_to": "sensor.yearly_kwh_to_battery"
}
],
"device_consumption": [
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.phase_1_a_c_down_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.phase_1_a_c_upstairs_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.coffee_bar_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.bar_fridge_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.washing_machine_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.study_monitor_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.shelly_em_a_c_down_stairs_channel_2_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.shelly_em_a_c_upstairs_channel_2_energy"
},
{
"stat_consumption": "sensor.storage_frige_energy"
}
]
}
}
So as I understand your grid consumption aka “flow from” is your total energy consumption from your house, right?
Also what is the difference between configuring the energy dashboard with using the utility integration?
Flow “from” is the energy from the grid. The house load is calculated from the energy balance. Solar production + energy from battery (- energy to the battery) + energy from the grid = total house energy. I would have to have sensors on every circuit to get actual total load the house is consuming. I use HA utility meters for the energy.
I can’t show you how I configured in the ui because that gets hidden once it is configured. You have to delete .storage/energy to reconfigure from the ui.