TP-Link Omada PoE power sensors

Feature Requests
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It would be great if the Omada integration would be capable of exposing the power draw from the PoE ports on the switches. In the Omada webUI these can be accessed via:
Devices > “Selected PoE switch” > Ports tab.
Here each port will show the PoE power.

It would be great if we can get this information in home assistant for energy tracking.

Thanks for the work on the integration!

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I would like this feature too! Currently, I’m using SNMP to get the power-values but it is quite tiresome to configure it via YAML.

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Would you care to share the configuration you use to get these?

I‘d love to have them available in HA!

Edit: well, to answer my own question and potentially help others - here’s what i did.

Step 0: Enable SNMP in Omada (Site → Configuration → Settings → SNMP)

Step 1: find out the correct SNMP OIDs

I found them on this site: https://mibs.observium.org/mib/TPLINK-POWER-OVER-ETHERNET-MIB/#tpPoePower

In my case, it was 1.3.6.1.4.1.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7 i needed to query, use “snmpwalk” or “snmpget” to verify.

Example:

snmpwalk -c <communitystring> -Os -v 2c <IPofYourSwitch> 1.3.6.1.4.1.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7

That yielded the following result:

enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.1 = INTEGER: 0
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.2 = INTEGER: 0
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.3 = INTEGER: 0
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.4 = INTEGER: 0
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.5 = INTEGER: 67
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.6 = INTEGER: 53
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.7 = INTEGER: 72
enterprises.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.8 = INTEGER: 27

The additional digit at the end is the respective switchport - the value you see is in Watts multiplied by 0.1 - so we’ll need to divide by 10.

Step 2: define the sensors in configuration.yaml

Yes, SNMP stuff is considered “legacy” by HA, so we’ll need to dive into configuration.yaml and add them under “sensors:” like this:

sensor:
  # Camera
  - platform: snmp
    host: IPofYourSwitch
    community: communitystring
    baseoid: 1.3.6.1.4.1.11863.6.56.1.1.2.1.1.7.5
    name: "Camera Power"
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
    device_class: power
    value_template: "{{ (value | int / 10) | round(1) }}"

Rinse, repeat for all other switchports you want to add - save configuration.yaml, restart HA

Step 3: Now, we’ve got a Power sensor but to add to the energy dashboard, we’ll need Powercalc from HACS.

Install Powercalc and add a Real power sensor - Powercalc documentation

After that being said and done - add the resulting energy sensor to the energy dashboard config.

Done!

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