This feature makes me want to start monitoring the energy on EVERYTHING 😅 Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video, the first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/everythingsmarthome08211
I disagree that it’s well made. i.e. there is no explanation why fields to enter values are not able to save. And why sensors, like „energy-spend“ don’t show up in the Energy link, even though I can read the value manually. Or „price/h“ … you can change, but not save … „save“ is always gray. Just as everything in this HAapp… you have to be a „nerd“ to use it. It is really disappointing.
Yea, this is such a cool functionality. Been talking in the dev environment and the devs say they are working on gas consumption aswell and seeing consumption per week/month/year, etc. Instead of only per day. This will help us get aware of our consumption and actually make you want to reduce your consumption.
Always enjoy your videos, but I struggled to get my arduino CT power monitor to integrate following this one. At about 5:00 you bring in the Riemann sum platform integration. This works to get my power W to energy kWh. But what you miss is the need to use Configuration-Customisations to change the State Class from Integration to Measurement and to add in the other info mentioned earlier. Then you need to include customize.yaml in the configuration.yaml. Hope this helps other viewers.
I've got a simple energy meter running for years that is giving a pulse to an esp8266 for a fixed amount of used energy - but i have no clue how to get this into home assistant. Any ideas on that I would appreciate very much!
Check to see if it has a flashing LED on the front of it, mine did and I used a Frient Electricity Meter Interface which integrates with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant. Or the Home Assistant Glow mentioned in the video.
Got my own Energy monitoring working a couple of days ago, but used the "utility_meter:" integration to get the values right.. It is really nice to have Consumption, Production and return to grid organized and looking pretty - Agree with your "this animation alone .... want to add energy monitoring" ;-) Still waiting for my API key thou.. Great video
Thank you for your explanation. You are the best ! - I was more than 4 hs trying to make the SCT-013 and esphome to work with the new Energy feature and you mention a simple thing that resolve my issue. "Riemann Integration" 👏 -- Thanks a lot !
Thanks for the video and the explanation however be warned that my energy consumption meter LED flashes no matter which direction the power is going. So anything going back to the grid is registered as used on my "Glow" device. I think current transformers would be better.
Any recommendations on DC CT clamp. I noticed Shelly EM does not measure DC current/ voltage appropriately and references 220V grid supply providing power to it.
Thanks for this review... sure it's such a meaningful feature! I'm rebuilding my HASS ATM and holding my expectations quite high in the energy efficiency side of things. I can already see the application of monitoring the solar energy production to either simply notify when consumption is higher than generation or, at the next level up, start checking for what can be turned off/delayed to prevent consumption for the grid. There is so much room for this automation! and that directly reflects in $ savings! For example, if you have a pool pump + heat pump + reverse cycle heater + high power appliances (washer/dryer machine, dishwasher, hot water heater, oven, etc.) , by monitoring the total energy consumption, as a minimum, HASS could simply notify ("hey you are now consuming electricity from the grid!" or even automatically action to reduce power, turn off or delay the operation of some low priority (but high power) devices!
I've got modbus meters for energy used + energy made, connected to my home automation processor which sends mqtt message to nodered which writes to influxdb. Soon I'll be adding gas and water pulse meters. Setting up a dedicated nuc for hassio this week, looking forward to messing around with the energy monitoring.
@@EverythingSmartHome IIRC you can use the 'Utility Meter' integration to change between tariffs. Check the documentation for it. Think it does what you are looking for.
I've been watching your channel for almost a year and I've been very impressed with the power of Home Assistant, bit I am so, so far removed from your level of technical knowledge. My question: Is there a turnkey version of Home Assistant for those of us that with above average technical skills. I have been dabbling with Hubitat and have learned a lot (no coding). I want to know if there is a Home assistance version with pre-formatted Home Assistant smarthome dashboards like you created in some of your videos. etc. I don't know if such a version exists, but thought it worth asking...
Both my water and electric utilities use "smart"/RF meters to send out stats every few minutes. Bought a $20 rtl-sdr USB dongle for my Pi3 and now know my usage (of electricity anyways) minute by minute. My neighbors too btw. Getting that data to make some sense in HA. That's another matter. That's also why I'm here.
That's really cool... The Home assistant integrtation, I mean. But what about the sensors? that's the "NO" cool part. Not all the "Smart" meter are NOT smart at all. Shelly EM is too expensive (139.99€ here). SlimmeLezer doesn't work with my meter. Home Assistant Glow? I'll give it a try...
I have shell energy for electric and gas ... However I had been using OWL intuition ... It works but I'm yet to compare if they are any different than shell readings ... It would be nice to have an API to use directly with Shell ..
Hoping to get solar and battery setup, maybe a heat pump or something as well, new requirement added: must support HA integration! Cheers for the video Lewis 👍
Thanks for the video - for folks who have only solar panels installed (tesla in my case), is there a way to integrate? couldnt find any relevant material online
Does anyone know of a 3 phase smart meter I can add to my home that will measure inbound consumption as well as upload to the grid from Solar? Particularly if it has a wired interface compatible with HomeAssistant. The one provided by my utility company has no credible interface.
Great Video. I'm looking to get some shelly em devices to monitor the usage on certain circuits of my house. Some devices on these circuits have their own monitoring (like washing machine). How can i exclude(minus) an individual device from the circuit consumption to give the remaining consumption of that circuit?
Thanks but I don’t understand, I installed a CT_clamp to measure intensity (A) and deduce power in W. I used Riemann Integration to have the measurement of energy spent and in home assistant this sensor appears as : state_class: measurement last_reset: '2021-08-15T15:27:45.466692+00:00' source: sensor.puissance_electrique unit_of_measurement: kWh friendly_name: energie_consommee icon: mdi:chart-histogram But It seems the sensor is not compatible with the Energy Dashboard
I tried to apply your highlighted output to the template used for PVOutput integration on HA, but the 2 #'s fail to commit. Any thoughts why the template doesn't allow this? energy_generation: value_template: '{% if is_state_attr("sensor.pvoutput", "energy_generation", "NaN") %}0{% else %}{{ "%0.2f"| format(state_attr("sensor.pvoutput", "energy_generation")|float/1000) }}{% endif %}' friendly_name: "Generated" unit_of_measurement: "kWh" device_class: energy # state_class: measurement # last_reset: '1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00'
Hi. I am using a GOSUND SP1 flashed with tasmota to get the consumtion (Already working). How to use this for Solar power production? Is there any tutorial existing "How to use existing energy meters?"
I would love a bit more in depth video on how to set this up. I'm not very proficient with Home Assistant yet and it took me a while to figure out how to make a proper emery meter from a rest API. They way I did it is probably pretty bad. I can imagine more people struggle with this
@@EverythingSmartHome you mentioned some attributes the sensor should have in order to have it work as an energy meter. Perhaps you can show how make a rest call and add these attributes to a sensor.
@Everything Smart Home, awesome video but I also want extra information here. I have got a Shelly EM but I cannot make it work in the energy dashboard. I putted the shelly on the cable of mine solar panel but it doesn't show in the list, of the energy settings.
@@jaap7374 I believe you can add them by either creating a template sensor that reflects the parent sensor and adds the attributes, or potentially through the Customisation option in Configuration (i.e. customize.yaml). I already tried this, but failed. I believe I am missing the potentially vital last_reset attribute to finally get this working, although I am pretty sure a fix is due imminently to prevent me needing to do this long-term, for my Efergy Engage (official integration) sensor anyway.
Dumb question, how do you change the colours of each energy item? My HA seems to have chosen the darkest colours, not sure if it is my theme or something I am missing. PS, thanks for the videos! Your video on HA and DuckDNS was a life saver!
Did I miss something? I've upgraded to 2021.8.4 and don't see the Energy button nowhere. I have several power monitoring plugs and whole house monitoring using Circuit Setup 6 channel board and would like to set this up. I currently use Grafana to create some cool looking dashboards but would like to use this natively .
I've got this set up, it's somewhat confusing it only wants to display energy (kWh) for the fancy animation and not instantaneous power (W). The total grid consumption is a net value ( minus feed in) you really need to know how much and when your drawing from the grid and when your individual devices are drawing from the grid. Early days but it's a good addition to hass
Didn't know about the p1 port on my meter. Immediately ordered the slimme lezer. Thanks for the info. As always, good video! Btw I saw that Homewizard also has a p1 dongle.
2021.12 Home Assistant auto detected my Tesla Wall Connector. Which offers kWh data, which means I can track it as an energy device. YES! The Energy module is pretty cool. It's still very Euro-centric (like currency shows up as EUR, can't seem to change it) but I'm seeing how much kWh my Tesla is consuming now. I'm getting some heavy duty smart plugs now for the major appliances. Though I'm beginning to wonder what an electrician would charge me to go into my main panel and 2 subpanels and get clamp sensors going on everything.
Have you ever wondered how much vampire consumption do smart bulbs consume? I guess if you have a bunch of smart bulbs it will be noticeable in the electric bill.
thanks for your videos, they are very useful. Do you think it is possible to integrate smart sockets that calculate consumption in the new consumption tab? I created a template to calculate the total kWh but last_reset and device_class cannot be put on the template so I don't think it's the right way. Is there a way to convert an entity I already have into one that can be used as a source for these calculations?
Thanks for the video, Lewis. Quick question - do you have a list of devices whose energy should be tracked? I have seen people talking about connecting a washing machine/dishwasher to a smart plug to track when the devices have completed their cycle. Since I am home most days, I am usually on top of emptying the clothes/dishes.
Off topic, but @Everything Smart Home, you asked in a reply to a previous comment on another video (I can't remember or find which one, as RU-vid is rubbish at comment tracking) to let you know how I got on with a smart lock installation on a UK multipoint door. Well, I went for the Yale Conexis L1 with Z-Wave module in the end and it's working great, although I have some concerns about battery life (still investigating that). Let me know if you'd like more info,, as happy to discuss on another platform, as I hate RU-vid for anything other than brief comments.
Hey Robert, I remember that! That's great glad you are enjoying it, I don't use z-wave at the moment but perhaps would consider it if I went the z-wave route later on
@@EverythingSmartHome It's my first and only Z-Wave device. Purchased an Aeotec Z-Stick specifically for the purpose of connecting it to Home Assistant. The thing I like about it the most is as it knows who has unlocked the door via RFID key (quite fiddly to set this up via a trigger template sensor), which allows me to disarm the alarm if an authorised key is used.
How can be the attributes selected? I have a sensor (Shelly EM) but it doesn't show up in the list. Can you add attributes to a sensor? Thanks in advance !
Nice and usefull video. Thanks for sharing the info. I already checked with my energy provider if I can use the P1 port on my meter and then will order the interface. One question though, where can you change the settings of the energy tab, once you have configured it?
A livable planet has a very high return on investment. There is a point where money is no longer the most important factor to save the planet. We passed that point at the beginning of this century.
I'm surprised. My solar project has a 12% p.a. return based on Solar replacing 39% of my grid consumption. It's all the 20p-kWh that I don't have to buy that makes it pay, not the export which I don't bother with. As we know "solar" power doesn't depend on sunshine; just daylight. My tables show most of Scotland gets more than 800 kWh/m2/year solar irradiation so taking my set up north would still give more that 10% return. That's pretty good compared to the return you get on savings or even the cost of long-term borrowing. Maybe you should re-check your sums?
I am not sure this video to hype something that is pure beta or alpha. I have products from energy category of supported integration in HA and still none showing up. What is the point in doing a video to show what the release party is bosting about without even checking it yourself?
Goodness, please actually try and watch the video before you comment. I literally mentioned in the video what you need to add in order for it to work. I also gave you an integration you can use to calculate it for you if your sensor does not meet the requirements currently. What do you mean I didn't "check it myself"? I went through and physically showed you adding it to my setup. Did I materialize that footage from thin air?
@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for the reply. I have Efergy and Growatt solar/battery- both official integrations under the category Energy in HA. Then why are they not supported in the new energy platform? Your video says that these official integrations work and most of them do not yet. Frank's advise is to get the developers to add all the attributes. So we wait for official integrations to be compatible?. Both effergy and Growatte are having device_class: energy and unit_of measurement: kWh. What is not there are state_class and last_rest attributes. Now did you cover or mention anything as to how to get them added. Most of the problems are struggling with this. As per Frank you have to ask developers of official integrations to add them as templates are not supported in the new energy platform. So what you mean by "I literally mentioned in the video what you need to add in order for it to work.". I did watch your video to end and of others and read forum too and no one is addressing the issue so I want for developers of official integrations to add it!
Well I got it working. Most of the official integrations do not have all the attributes required for them to show up in the new energy model. These are state_class: measurement last_reset: 1970-01-01T00:00:00T00:00:00+00:00 device_class: energy unit_of_measurement: kWh . what you need to do is find the sensor via developer tools write down missing attributes and then go to customization in the configuration section and then add the missing attributes one by one and save. In my case all my soonoff Pows, Efergy and Growatt were missing state_measure and last_rest whisst other two device_class and unit_of_measure was there. Posting here in case someone come here to watch the video but cannot get it fixed
@@sanjeewasamaranayake Goodness , Gracious , Me ... A more gentle tone would be welcomed !! " Everything Smart Home" is helping us out with a new product. It will surely streamline over the next few months. I have the Shelly 3EM and was lost in the initial stages as there was no KwH ..but thevideo @ 4.54 solved my problem. Deeply appreciate the good work to start us up ..
@@EverythingSmartHome I added CO2 and gained a non-fossil fuel consumed % gauge this morning. I also suspect you need to set up solar to get the others
@@EverythingSmartHome Runs now - the missing steps were evide_class=energy ans setting "last_reset" .. and further a missing link to Customize.yaml. Due to my 5kWh battery system energy flow are currently shown much missleading and language/frienly_name settings I am still locking for
@@timrelu Go Configuration/Customization/ - select entity - "Pick an attribute to override" - other Put the attribute name "last_reset" oand put in e.g. "2021-08-11T07:27:39.848704+00:00" .. and save :)
@@Klaus-macht-Bilder_de Hi thanks for answer . Fixed with adding : homeassistant: customize_glob: sensor.meter_today: last_reset: '1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00'
hi, as always a great and well put-together video! Unfortunately the feature doesn't seem to work yet - the only sensor I am seeing in any of the choices is my solar lifetime output sensor, I have lots of other power monitoring sensors both from the inverter and others but none show up. When Frenck & Co fix these I will make sure to watch this video again :-)
@@EverythingSmartHome There seem to be a number of sensors that cannot be integrated yet. I have an Efergy Engage monitor that I have had for years, before I even discovered HASS. It has an official integration, which I have been using to make my own dashboard.. Unfortunately, it's not yet compatible, even though it's an official integration. Dev team are aware and looks like an update to enable it will appear shortly. Just need to be patient for some of these to be supported and make sure you notify the Devs (log an issue on Github) if you're not able to integrate a sensor that should seemingly work.
