Smart Plug Power is shown as diagnostic instead of a sensor

chipped · March 18, 2025, 12:02pm

Hello,

I am using Zigbee2MQTT to bring some smart plugs with power monitoring into Home Assistant.

I can only see Energy consumption as a Sensor which is the amount of kWh the Smart Plug has consumed over its lifetime.

Instead I’d like to be able to show Power usage.

When I go to Settings > Devices & Services > MQTT > Devices > Go into one of my Smart Plugs, I can see the Power sensor in the diagnostics section.

I’d like to show this on the device in the dashboard.

How can I change this to add it as a sensor to the Smart Plug?

Thanks.

koying · March 18, 2025, 1:57pm

Do you mean the auto-generated dashboard?
Because you can use a diagnostic entity like any other on a custom one.

chipped · March 18, 2025, 8:42pm

I’m new to home assistant so I’m not familiar with Dashboards yet. Is there a way to change the entity so it’s not Diagnostic?

chipped · March 22, 2025, 2:59am

Just an update, I have to Edit my dashboard and “Take Control”. After this I was able to add custom cards which can include diagnostic entities.