Issues with PowerCalc Sensors After Switching to GUI Configuration

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Hi everyone,

I recently switched my PowerCalc configuration from manual YAML setup in configuration.yaml to the GUI-based configuration with Autodiscover. While everything worked perfectly with the manual YAML setup, I’m now facing issues with the sensors for almost all detected devices.

To give a specific example, I have a Shelly 3EM in my home installation, which shows a current power consumption of around 350W on all three phases. However, the PowerCalc sensor created via the GUI configuration shows just 1W on the “energy-sensor”.

I’m clearly making a significant mistake somewhere, but I can’t figure out what it is.

I’ve attached a screenshot of my global PowerCalc configuration for reference. Also, I have no problem with deleting everything and starting from scratch since it hasn’t recorded any meaningful data yet.

Has anyone experienced similar issues or have any advice on what might be going wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Flo

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no ideas? that’s bad :wink:

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I’m not completely sure about your issue. But seems you are confused by the auto discovered profiles.
For the 3EM this auto discovered profile will only provide the self usage of the shelly device which is 1.22W.
The 3EM provides power consumption for the connected phases already, so there is no need for Powercalc to create additional power and energy sensors as they are already provided by the shelly integration.

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Hi Bram, thanks for your response!

To be completely honest, I wasn’t aware of that. I had assumed the consumption displayed represented the 3 phases rather than just the consumption of the measuring device itself. That clears up a lot! :blush:

Now that I understand this, I think I can start using it as intended.

Thanks again!