Hello, I would like to track some energy usage for my heating system. What I have right now: Heater is controlled by a generic thermostat , let’s call it climate.thermostat here, this part works well without issue. This thermostat is using a basic switch to drive the heater, switch.heater. I kno…

Try this: [image] Powercalc - Virtual power sensors Custom Integrations In the last few weeks I have been working on a custom component to get virtual power sensors for your lights or other devices. It is stable enough right now to share it on this forum and make dedicate…

It seems that the problematic attributes can not be used for modern templates, but in the legacy templates, that might be able to handle them, the required values to get them into the energy dashboard is not supported. [image] Template Instructions on how to integrate Template Sensors in…

I’m trying powercalc right now (thanks francisp), looks to be exactly what i’m looking for. I’ll follow-up here tomorrow if it works.

[image] WallyR: It seems that the problematic attributes can not be used for modern templates, but in the legacy templates What are you talking about. Modern template sensor/binary_sensor can do everything legacy template sensor/binary_sensor can do.

You have many errors in your template. [image] There’s a number of ways to do this {% if is_state('switch.heater', 'on') %} 2000 {% else %} 0 {% endif %} {{ 2000 if is_state('switch.heater', 'on') else 0 }} …

"Virtual" sensor to guess heater power from its state

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francisp (Francis) December 7, 2021, 8:58am 2

Try this: