WTH Why is 'Unmonitored Energy' not a category you can easily enable

Month of "What the heck?!"
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I created this with a template sensor but this has to be manually updated when I add a new metering plug. This puts a great perspective into energy usage

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Also creating sub monitors (more sections under one bar for example) so you can have a sensor for a group in the distribution cabinet (groepenkast) and have metering plugs as part of that group.

Cheers Marcel

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Yes! I really miss this one!
It becomes more and more interesting to get “other consumers”.

This one could be fairly simple
consumption - all individual consumers = unmonitored/other consumers

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Yes, especially the grouping. I have a whole home energy monitor in my breaker box (Emporia), but then many of those breakers may have individual plugs on just a single device, or smart switches that report energy.
I would also be great to categorize the individual devices, lights, entertainment, heating/cooling, etc…

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Yeah – this is what I have set up for myself by hand with templates – total power/energy meter at the fuse box, individual devices grouped by hand into category template sensors (food, cleaning, climate, lights, IT, media) and finally a difference sensor between all the categories and total. It would be nice to just group devices by category and have these sensor be created automatically.

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Unless you want HA to somehow automagically know what switches/sensors you have and use for power metering, that would depend on how you currently template that.

Only thing you’d need to add in case of a new metering device, is that device to your config, and have the template do the rest?

      - unique_id: calculated_bruto_minus_switches
        name: Ongemeten verbruik
        <<: *power
        icon: mdi:ghost
# filter out negatives
        state: >
          {{[0,(states('sensor.calculated_bruto_verbruik')|float(0) -
             states('sensor.sensors_huidig_verbruik_summed')|float(0))|round(2,none)]|max}}

that is, assuming you have your smart meter plugged into HA too ofc.

Ive even done it a bit more specific, but never have to look back to these templates:

      - unique_id: sensors_huidig_verbruik_summed
#        name: Sensors huidig verbruik summed
        <<: *power
        icon: mdi:plus-box-outline
        state: >
          {{(expand('group.switches_sensors_actueel',
                    'group.switches_total_device_power',
                    'group.lights_inside_total_device_power',
                    'group.lights_outside_total_device_power')
             |selectattr('state','is_number')
             |map(attribute='state')
             |map('float')|sum)|round(2)}}

only add a device to any of the above groups

SInce there will be not a single config using the same demands, I fear HA will never be able to do so by itself, without further input from the user.

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I believe there would need to be user input to set this up, but it could be done when adding devices to the energy dashboard. Simply allow setting a “parent” when adding an individual device.