Ben having the feint energy monitor for some months now with the energy dashboard in home assistant.
Using it with deconz.
Total increasing has been working great and a template to get power usage. Power usage still works but noticed yesterday that total increasing is stuck. I have restarted deconz container, restarted home assistant and changed batteries on feint. However, total increasing is stuck. Graphs for daily usage in energy dashboards shows nothing. I dont really get what is the problem.
HI, how do you get the KwH into HA without it showing up in Phoscon? I see the device in dezonz, that’s it:-(
Never mind:-) Missed reloading the integration, works now!
As I can remember the default is 1000, which means 1000 pulses from the meter means 1kWh. You need to confirm what is written on your meter and set value to measure correctly.
yes I have correctly set the value of 1000 pulsations as indicated on my counter, but the value it returns to me is too low compared to my consumption, even when I turn on a stove the value drops
Thanks for the picture, exactly as I expected. The shape of the sensor suggest that you need to put it on the round interface, but actually that is an IR interface, an S0 probably. You can build a ESPHome device which would communicate with the meter through that, reading OBIS codes.
Do you see the description Ra and Rr for the pulse measures? Each has the 1000 as pulse per kWh.
One is what you use from the grid the other is the one what you send to the grid, if you have a photovoltaic installation.
So next to the LCD display there are two markings for Ra and Rr those are the impulse LEDs where you need to position your sensor.
Look at which one is flashing fast, when you turn that stove on and that is the one where you need to put the sensor.
I only had the meter for 12h until my was stuck as well. It happened after a hard power cycle of HA (I broke the power to my IT setup for installing a power metering plug😂).
The only way I managed to get it working again was by first removing the device in deConz, then removing the entity in HA and then readd the device in deConz again. Now it at least has been working since then (2 days).
Yes, when I turn on the appliances, the RA LED flashes quickly, now I am using the microwave oven and the instantaneous value is 4W, could it be the faulty appliance?
I really doubt that. Frient is the inhouse brand of Develco. They are one of the biggest white label manufacturers. Their products are really well made and documented. Most of the time when returned, are due to user error or misconfiguration, misunderstanding of the device and its capabilities.
You can test the Frient device with a light (flash of the phone for example), by turning towards the sensor and away the sensor, roughly every second. That should give about 3.6kW as current power.
When you place the sensor to the RA, make sure that the sensor only picks up light from the RA LED and not from the LCD, if it has any illumination.
I am guessing that this a single phase meter by the L1 in the left bottom corner of the LCD. I have no idea what consumers do you have but generally at this part of the day, lights would consume in a flat between 50 and 100W, plus 50 to 100W to phone charger, HA computer, other smart devices. A microwave should be somewhere between 500 and 1500W depending on settings. If you do have heating, that would add another 2kW or so depending on your heaters, but as you are obviously from Italy, I guess the weather is still nice, so you are not using neither any heating or AC.
A water kettle would give somewhere between 1kW to 1.8kW and a stove, depending how many you have turned on 500W to 3.5kW.
By the way how the energy compares to the meter’s value after one hour?
After an hour the result returns to 0W, the idle consumption of my meter is about 300W so it should have read the correct value even if I didn’t turn on appliances.