I still haven’t managed to properly integrate my (available) energy devices into the energy dashboard.
I have some solar panels (connected via AhoyDTU & MQTT) and still I didn’t manage to get the data displayed in the Energy Dashboard!
Same for the main power meter. It’s connected via Zigbee/MQTT (with a frient electricity meter) and the values displayed in the dashboard are wild (~16000kWh per day)!
I spent quite some hours reading through tutorials and documentation, but still… Sure I should try to make a post in the forum, but I haven’t had the time to do this, yet.
I have these sensors, I just didn’t manage to configure them in a way that HA is able to use them for its calculations (and I tried quite a few things).
Thanks for your feedback though! I see that I don’t get around creating a proper post about the issue(s).
The system is pretty much automatic IF the metadata is there (the stuff tom mentioned)
So for your system it’s so hard because the proper information isn’t there to let the system set it up.
Therefore it’s automatic… BUT…
It can’t make stuff up from nothing so you have to at least make sure your stuff has the right metadata to be read to set itself up.
This is the part you’re saying is hard. In a perfect world the vendor would automatically send the right stuff. Unfortunately we don’t live in that world and in most cases - especially in power monitoring (remember those vendors specialize in power not sending data) you’re going have to intervene and get the stuff configured to match what HA expects. Fortunately in my case my integration author did it right and I had very little to do.
The answer to that would be a standard that can be enforced but honestly it won’t help you cant FORCE a vendor to do something. Especially if you’re using MQTT. It’s up to YOU to get/send the right things.
(also knowing it’s MQTT that’s probably where your setup is messed up - defining your sensors there… When you open your thread start there…)
Well to the defence of the author it is hard and fustrating at first. Why, well because at first you obviously think here is an entitie that got the value. You look in the dev panel and see there it is and it got in the right measurement. But why oh why can’t i find it in the energy panel where i want to add it. It doesn’t show up there because if the incomplete meta data. Finding out which metadata to correct and testing it to finaly showing up took me more time them creating my own energy page. And that is what i did in the end.
So, i am not complaining but just stating a fact that i experienced.
I guess repairs could be raised for energy sensors without the required meta-data. Oh boy will a lot of people whine about that though. “I don’t care I have my own energy page”, etc…
(and I tried quite a few things).