Hi all, pretty new to Home Assistant but really enjoying it to far.
I work from home and my employer pays for my PC and electric heater power in my office.
I previously used a crappy old school little meter which worked okish, but I’d like to smarten things up.
My PC and all monitors, and the heater, is plugged into a multibox which then goes to the TP-Link HS110 which has energy monitoring built in. So just one sensor to monitor.
What makes it more complicated is that I would like to only monitor the usage between 8.30am - 5pm, Monday to Friday. It’s my personal computer that I use for work. I use it a lot outside of working hours (as well as the heater) and also game on it, so I don’t want to charge my employer for that.
I have already got the TP-Link HS110 sensor integrated with Home Assistant, and I can pull out the daily kWh, total kWh, voltage, current and current power draw in watts.
I’m thinking I need to be monitoring the current watt draw between work hours and convert that to kWh.
I charge my employer at the end of every month, so I’ll need to be logging the daily usage I think.
As a bonus it would be great to be able to convert that kWh by approx 0.20 (cents) to get the total cost for the month, but I can do that myself if I have to, no big deal.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks