In the Energy dashboard if i look at any of my energy plugs (I’m using Third Reality 2nd Gen and Kasa) I can see the current draw in the energy, usage card i can see how much KW each device drew. however in the energy distribution card which is supposed to show current KWh draw is just cumulating the consumption.
Example if i have 2 devices consuming 0.5kwh an hour each, i can see at any time that its drawing 0.5KWh, in the energy usage card i would see each hour 1KW was pulled…
however in the energy distribution card it continues to add up, lets say we plugged everything in at 1pm, if you checked it at 5 pm it would show the current draw is 4kw/h as it has added up the last 4 hours, but the live feed should show 1kw/h draw
Is there a way to correct this and show live power draw in the energy distribution card?
I read your post several times and couldn’t make much sense of it. You mention kW and kWh (and also mention kW/h, which doesn’t really make any sense). The Energy card ONLY shows Energy (kWh). Power is kW. It can be helpful to think of power (kW) as a speedometer and Energy (kWh) as an odometer.
Can you try explaining your issue again? I think part of the issue may be the ‘Energy Distribution’ card itself; because it’s animated it gives the impression that it’s ‘live’, but it’s still just displaying kWh (so Energy, which is cumulative).
In my mind I’m seeing KW as a measure of how much energy has been consumed like a odometer shows how many KM you have driven total. KW/h is how much KW was consumed during a 1 hour period (hence the /h which is per hour) which would be an odometer that logs and resets the counter every hour
In the dashboard this does break down like this. Restarting the cumulative KW/h count every hour. except the energy distribution card.
Example
hour 1 total consumption was 1kW/h
hour 2 total consumption was 1kW/h
hour 3 total consumption was 1kW/h
hour 4 total consumption was 1kW/h
if you combined all of those and provided a total that total would not reflect a per hour consumption and this is what the energy distribution card is doing.
The odometer in your car continues to rise as you drive but that’s because its capturing total km traveled and not total km driven in a period of time (hence why it doesn’t have a per hour component) because if it had it would reset the odometer every hour to capture a per hour count.
The energy distribution card seems to measure KW consumption totals per day but shows KW/h. Suggesting the number its representing is the KW consumption for the hour (per hour). If the energy card shows KW or KW/d (Kilowatts per day) then this would make total sense.
Using the car analogy example if i drove consistently at 100km/hour for 5 hours and i check my speed at the 5 hour mark it would still be 100km/h, the odometer would have showed i traveled 500km but it would not say 500km/h, if it was capturing the distance driven then it would be 500km and would drop the “/h” (per hour portion) because the 500km value does not represent any single hour but a total of 5 hours so it can’t be per hour.
You are looking for a card for your dashboard to show the sums but live right?
Look at the energy flow card plus from HACS. That should be the solution.
You’re misunderstanding the difference between Power (kW) and Energy (kWh). Power (kW) is already energy per unit of time and Energy (kWh) is, well, energy. As I said in my original post, think of power (kW) as a speedometer and Energy (kWh) as an odometer. Yes, the units can be confusing when you’re not used to them.
EVERYTHING on the Energy Dashboard is Energy (kWH). At the top you select the time period and it shows the Energy usage for that time period.
As @JohnFLoki mentioned, there are custom cards people have made that match the look of the various cards on the Energy Dashboard (kWh), but are used for Power (kW).