Hi all. I have just setup the energy page in home assistant. I have Solar panels that feed into a grid tie inverter. I then have a CT sensor on the solar and also on the main power coming in from the grid. I then have three sensors setup in HA
-Solar generation - just using the reading from the CT sensor on the solar inverter
-Energy used- uses the main power CT sensor - the solar reading to give the net power used from the grid
-Solar export - uses the CT sensor on the solar inverter - the CT sensor on the main power if this a positive
The above have been working fine in HA for over a year. As the new energy section for home assistant came out I thought I would configure it. When I choose the sensor for the solar export I get a
"Entity not defined
Check the integration or your configuration that provides:
sensor.energy_export"
Does anyone have any advice on what I need to do to resolve this?
I have the same issue, it has worked fine for quite a while but in the last 24 hours its stopped and now it seems none of my sensors are defined according to HA. I cant even see them in the disabled entities.
Has anyone found a solution for this ? I also have a device that reports this error. The device’s sensors report values, but when added to the energy dashboard, I get this error.
Thanks
Philippe
It describes setting up sensors for a specific solar system: Solax, but it also provides all the steps on how to setup sensors to also use them in the energy dashboard ( by using powercalc integration from HACS)
Found the problem. It seems that the energy dashboard creates its own entities based on the entities you selected to ‘watch’ for these 'new" entities are then somehow linked to your original. If for some reason your original is enitiy is invalidated the linked entity goes into ‘error’ and is not able to restore afterwards.
so the solution ;
go to the entities overview and make sure you have no filters on it… (it filters out by default the disabled ones). try to find entities that have an error state next to it and see if you can find those used by energy dashboard. you can see it if you open the entity details by clicking on it. if you do, delete them…
go back to your energy dashboard… in the list , the wrong ones still appear but has no icon anymore next to them… and the correct ones appear in the list. (maybe after restarting HA that might be solved as well, did not try that).
if you select the correct entities now, the error should not appear anymore
goodluck.
Thanks a lot for this help. I had the same problem because i changed between local shelly integration and then cloud connect via hacs .
Ihave to delete the hacs integration to make the standard ointegration work again ( that helps me, but perhaps there ist better solution so that both run at the same time…for a local shelly, and a remote shelly)
And the “hacs entities” are still visible but without an icon.