My goal is to get the power consumption of a UPS and to see it on the energy dashboard as an individual device. Here’s what I’ve done and where I’m stuck:
I’m using the latest version of HA (2022.9.x) and just configured the NUT integration through the UI.
I use it to get data from my Synology DS920+ which is connected to a CyberPower PR750ELCD. On the UPS display I do see the current output in watts, so it should be there.
The integration works, I see several entities like Input Voltage, Output Voltage, Battery Charge, Load in percentage and others. Many are hidden, but that’s not an issue.
My issue is, that I don’t see anything that gives me a wattage number. I assume it could be “ups.load”, but I’m not sure if it’s the percentage one I already see. Here’s a screenshot of all entities I see:
NUT generally exposes Nominal Power (in VA) as the nominal rating for your UPS and ‘Apparent Power’ (also in VA) which is a product of the actual line voltage and the apparent current draw in Amps. (power draw in VA)
Insert discussion on power in Watts v. VA in context of UPS measures here…
They’re probably both disabled, look at the entities NUT brought over, find them in the list and enable them.
Settings - Devices and Services - Helpers - Create Helper - Utility Meter
The native sensor.cybepower_pr750elcd_usv_nominal_real_power should show up there. I think it can take a while for the values to update once you create it.
Not yet. But as I understand the nominal_real_power is the maximum power the device can output. So this wouldn’t help me.
I’ll try it anyway and will see what it looks like