Whitelist with Sense energy monitor

[Literoya (Roya)]

@silvrr

Did you read the error and follow the link?

whitelist is an invalid option for sense. Remove the whitelist part of your config.

Yes hence me explaining this is my attempt. Will removing the “whitelist” allow me to only monitor those sensors?

@mviamin

Exactly, “whitelist” is not a configuration variable for the component as per the docs linked in the error. Curious as to what you were trying to achieve by whitelisting some components ?

Performance improvements. As other posts have noted on this forum, monitoring everything cause performance issues.

Below is the comments about whitelisting, which led to my attempt to do so.

@parkercat

Thanks. I have examined the code and hacked in a whitelist of device names. If that goes well I will attempt to make it configurable and maybe submit a patch.

[EDIT]

@claytonjn

Without modifying the python code the best you could do is set hidden: true in your customize section of your configuration for every sense device, that should at least improve the performance on the HA side.

Based on this it sounds like I’d have to do the following:

sense:
email: XXXX
password: XXXX
– sensor.Fridge
hidden: true
– sensor.Freezer
hidden: true
– sensor.Microwave
hidden: true