I would like to provide an estimated power metrics from a ESPHome based device using the pid climate and the output component. To this I have also added a template power sensor but I can’t figure out how to have the estimate_power sensor entity updated by either the pid or the output component. Any idea how to do this?
I guess one way is to have the pid component talk to the output component via a template output component but isn’t that to go over the river just to get some water
The formula provding the value of the estimated power consumption will in my case be pwm_vale * 800 since I have 800W radiator
climate:
- platform: pid
id: pid_climate
name: "PID Climate Controller"
sensor: temperature_sensor
default_target_temperature: 19°C
heat_output: my_slow_pwm
visual:
temperature_step:
current_temperature: 0.01
target_temperature: 0.1
control_parameters:
kp: 0.90653
ki: 0.00064
kd: 318.81638
derivative_averaging_samples: 60
output_averaging_samples: 1
starting_integral_term: 0.60
output:
- platform: slow_pwm
pin: GPIO1
id: my_slow_pwm
period: 1s
inverted: True
restart_cycle_on_state_change: False
- platform: template
name: Power estimate
id: power_estimate
unit_of_measurement: "W"
device_class: power
state_class: measurement