Would be nice to have device grouping in “Energy”.
F.e. in case I have energy meter for guest house and some plugs inside.
And idea to see nested meters grouped under parent meter.
Have a nice day.
Good idea. Make this a feature request?
Grouping would be nice. For example group by type (lightning, HVAC, etc) and by room as well. Maybe even some kind of drill down or expandable view which you can either collapse or expand for detailed overview:
Lighting
-Living room light
-Kitchen Light
-Outdoor light
HVAC
- ventilation
- heater
- AC
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Small addition. Energy device group to be not only containers for real power meters, but also to be associated with power meter.
Lightning Group ← here data from all lightning power meter OR just group w/out metering
- A room ← particular power meter
- …
Sorry my bad English, hope idea is clear.
Maybe this is a candidate for tagging, which has been discussed in connection with other entities.
You can create groups by adding device consumption together, which might meet the requirements of the OP:
Lighting in this case is a sensor collecting a lot of values:
# All lights
- platform: template
sensors:
all_lights_power:
friendly_name: All lights
unit_of_measurement: Watt
value_template: >
{{ states('sensor.lrlights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.ktlights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.ydlights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.stlights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.halights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.balights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.lalights_power')| float(0) + states('sensor.belights_power')| float(0) }}
- platform: integration
source: sensor.all_lights_power
name: lighting
unit_prefix: k
round: 5
method: left
You could also do this to get room consumption. What you can’t do is make devices and totals group together on the dashboard.
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Sure, in some cases it is fairly enough. Together with grouping on dashboard it would be perfect.
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Yup - an alternative way of grouping that might be useful is per phase or even per power group.
How I’ve done this for “per phase” is by customizing the entities (adding an attribute denoting which phase).
A “proper” way that also goes into the Energy dashboard would be useful.
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Even better: use the current “groups” function where the group value would be the total of the group items. Would work for power and energy (W / kWh).
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My vote for initial request - create ‘levels’ where we have ‘master’ meter and sub-meters inside belonging to it and be able to see/analyze these in Energy dashboard but sub-meters would not add to global sum since it would be included in master meter
A somewhat related question, I have meters per group, and some devices have meters behind that meter.
So in effect some power usage is counted two times, Would it be possible to make kind of a tree of connections that exist? I started to meter everything in the house, I have 20 groups metered, solar panels, and a lot of devices are individually metered. It would make sense to make kind of a tree, so you see what group uses how much, how much is used for devices and get an indication of the unmetered usage within a group.
I agree with your suggestion. I just started improving energy monitoring with an Emporia monitor at the circuits. I’m trying to join this with existing shelly pm at plugs and virtual power calculation for lights with the emporia circuit data. So I have stacked power/energy devices. It would be great to have the ability to add and subtract these items to get good consumption numbers on the energy page for grouped devices. Then clicking on a group item, it would be great to then get the individual details for items in the group.