Your Power Dashboard looks ok to me, however from your first ESPHome screenshot, somethings isn’t right in your setup as the sensor for “House - Power Consumption” is 0W while the other two Energy Sensors are correctly showing kWh values.
Do some checking into the “House - Power Consumption” sensor … what is the actual sensor name for that?
That aside, you are using sensor sensor.power_usage_3097 and from the “Current Entities” screenshot you can see it has a value, so it’s working. You’re also using that sensor in your dashboard and from what I can see, your Power Dashboard looks correct.
My understanding is that the LED only pulses when power/energy is drawn from the Grid or I am importing power.
For example I am drawing power from the grid now because I have three air Conditioners running and this is what the HA GLOW is showing
Ron - what’s the sensor name for the sensor “Home - Power Consumption” that in the above screenshot is consuming 1500w? It’s pretty simple to use that sensor to drive the Energy Dashboard by replacing ‘sensor.power_usage_3097’ with the name of the “Home - Power Consumption” in that snippet of code two posts up.
I am interested in this piece, but I don’t see this being exposed in my enphase system
template:
- sensor:
name: Battery Export Power
state_class: measurement
icon: mdi:battery-charging
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
state: >
{{ [0, states('sensor.envoy_<ENVOY_SERIAL>_inverter_<INVERTER_SERIAL>') | int ] | max }}
- sensor:
name: Battery Import Power
state_class: measurement
icon: mdi:battery-charging
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
state: >
{{ [0, 0 - states('sensor.envoy_<ENVOY_SERIAL>_inverter_<INVERTER_SERIAL>') | int ] | max }}
sensor:
- platform: integration
name: Battery Export Energy
source: sensor.battery_export_power
unit_prefix: k
unit_time: h
method: left
- platform: integration
name: Battery Import Energy
source: sensor.battery_import_power
unit_prefix: k
unit_time: h
method: left
As you can see the sensor “sensor.house_power_consumption” is zero. This is telling me that I am not importing any power from the grid, that is, the LED1 is not flashing. The LED1 only flashes every 1watt hour when I am importing power.
However, "sensor.power_usage_3097"derived from the Efergy Integration and this sensor is actually a CT clamp on the consumption cable(s) in my Switchboard (uploaded to my Energyhive device via 433MHZ and stored in the UK) and this is what it is currently showing, 2915 W. This I believe is Total consumption of the house at time of screen dump.
This is today’s Solar production in wh
I cannot make sense of it just yet!
Hoping you can shed some light. My yaml skills are not good. I can sort of read and understand but that’s about it.
Ian,
In my efforts to try an understand what is happening I came across this in discussions on the project in github
The last comment I think explains it all from klaasnicolaas the maintainer “It will not really work with 1 LED, your meter will probably calculate what goes in and out and determines the behavior of your pulse LED based on that”
This said I think that this project will not work on a house with PV(Solar.)
I have LED2 but the code supplied does not cater for PV in it’s current form.
In my opinion, to read LED2 would require a 2nd setup and a different set of code.
I have completely misunderstood this project.
I have opened an issue on GitHub
Hi, before I installed solar, I used to have a retail sold device called powerpal. See https://www.powerpal.net/
This device gave great visibility of consumption by reading how much energy my house was pulling from the grid by reading the flashing light on my smart meter. When solar was installed, this device became useless for me when the sun was shining so I removed it. My solar solution replaced the functionality of this led reader.
Since there hasn’t been any action with the core component in quite a while, I’ve submitted a PR to the popular custom component (the one that supports firmware 7+) briancmpbll/home_assistant_custom_envoy which adds these calculations that @del13r has been showing us - right into the component so we don’t have to use template sensors.
Is it just me or the Add-on to stream to MQTT is not working anymore with recent HA update ?
I had messages in HA about deprecated sensor :
The mqtt platform for the sensor integration does not support platform setup. Please remove it from your config.
December 20, 2022 at 10:12:16 AM – (ERROR) Sensor - message first occurred at December 20, 2022 at 10:12:16 AM and shows up 4 times
Manually configured MQTT sensor(s) found under platform key 'sensor', please move to the mqtt integration key, see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.mqtt/#new_format
December 20, 2022 at 10:12:10 AM – (ERROR) MQTT
I am using your PR and I see the sensors but my grid energy import and export are showing a constant 0.01 kWh, I don’t understand what I did wrong, its possible I am reading the wrong sensors, could you or someone running this PR show me what the proper sensors are in the dashboard settings section?
Edit: on second look i could not find the sensors you mentioned would be in there, I added the code from the first few posts but the sensors show unknown states
How do I edit metering configuration for Envoy in HASS?
The current meter clamps might (in principle) be installed to measure the
current at the load (solar attached at the utility side of the CT)
or
current on the utility side (solar attached at the consumption node)
It appears (looking at the power levels displayed in the Energy dashboard) that the solar power is added to the power displayed as the Grid and this isn’t my case.
Question: Where do I edit the configuration? I vaguely remember there was an “interview” during the initial set-up (where I apparently made a mistake). I would prefer editing the configuration rather than deleting and starting over. Thanks!
I am not aware that you can make any changes like that in HA to affect EnPhase. Those metering changes are all done in the Installers toolkit (which is freely available from the playstore) but you need the installer to grant you access to that, which he may not want to do without relinquishing his warranty to you…
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply. I have full access to Envoy - since I self installed and I am also running some py scripts off-line to hog data with something like 30 second granularity. Enphase is doing it’s thing and reporting believable data.
The issue is that the metering current transformers may be installed on either side: On the utility side (where it measures net delivery from/to utility (distinguished by the sign)) or on the consumption side where it reports what is consumed from both utility and solar (always in one direction)).
Either option is fine wit Envoy, you just tell it during initial configuration what is the metering scheme. However, HASS integration seems to assume the later and there seem to be no configuration option.
I spent few hours searching and found this was actually reported while back so I am not the only one facing this.
Issue link below.
Thanks - Martin
Ok after stuffing around two days with this post which is awesome by the way I have decided to ask for help please.
Issues:
The error in the screenshots below. Code shows some array expected error but HA has no issues using it.
There is a statistics not defined error in second screenshot not sure what thats about
The total consumption is off 2-3 KW right now. Shows 6 ish and I have 8 something on the app
Like you I have daily supply charge and 1 rate for usage. May need assistance with it if you can guide me.
thanks
template:
- sensor:
name: Grid Import Power
state_class: measurement
icon: mdi:transmission-tower
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
state: >
{{ [0, states('sensor.envoy_SN_current_power_consumption') | int - states('sensor.envoy_SN_current_power_production') | int ] | max }}
- sensor:
name: Grid Export Power
state_class: measurement
icon: mdi:transmission-tower
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
state: >
{{ [0, states('sensor.envoy_SN_current_power_production') | int - states('sensor.envoy_SN_current_power_consumption') | int ] | max }}
- sensor:
name: Solar Power Corrected
state_class: measurement
icon: mdi:solar-panel
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
state: >
{% set value = states('sensor.envoy_SN_current_power_consumption') | int %}
{% if value <= 5 %}
0
{% elif is_state("sun.sun","below_horizon") %}
0
{%- else -%}
{{ value }}
{%- endif %}
sensor:
- platform: integration
name: Grid Import Energy
source: sensor.grid_import_power
unit_prefix: k
unit_time: h
method: left
- platform: integration
name: Grid Export Energy
source: sensor.grid_export_power
unit_prefix: k
unit_time: h
method: left
utility_meter:
daily_energy:
source: sensor.grid_import_energy
name: Daily Import Meter
cycle: daily
tariffs:
- offpeak
- shoulder
- peak
daily_energy_export:
source: sensor.grid_export_energy
name: Daily Export Meter
cycle: daily
tariffs:
- buyback
That might happen if you are attempting this for the first time at night as the grid export value will be 0 until the sun comes up and your panels start making more power than your house needs. Once the value goes above 0, it should correctly format accordingly and statistics should follow over an hour later.
Total consumption since when?
Since midnight or since the solar panels were installed?
Have the integration/energy sensors been setup less than 24 hours ago? If so, then that would explain the difference as the integration/energy sensor will only start recording from when it was setup onwards.
Here are 2 screenshots.
First one shows the native sensors from enphase. These are the daily figures from the ct clamp on the panels (production) and ct clamp on the house (consumption)
As oversimplified example, If your house is consuming the exact same amount of power that your panels are producing, then the grid in and out figures will be 0.
