This is my first time using any device which can report power usage. In this case, a smartplug I got from Aliexpress.
It looks to me like the polledsmartenergysummation sensor is what I’m looking for. But, of course, it just gives me a continuously updating readout in some unit of measure I don’t know. Ideally I’d like to end up with a chart showing kilowatt hours used per period (hour/day/week/etc). Can someone point me in the right direction?
I have installed a smartplug in my house. This plug tracks power usage and has a sensor called electricalmeasurement. That sensor produces a history like this:
Next, I created a utility meter helper with the following settings:
Name: Meter PC
Input Sensor: Computer Power Electricalmeasurement (from my smartplug)
Meter Reset Cycle: Daily
Meter Reset Offset: 0
Supported Tarrifs: none
Net consumption: no
Delta Values: No
So far so good Now… to get that into a daily bart chart in my lovelace dashboard. This is where I’m failing. I’m using a statistic’s graph card to get me the bar chart as shown below
As you can see, rather than giving me a bar for each day, I’m getting a summation of all days prior which, of course, only goes up. What I’d like is that each bar would show the day’s usage.