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DCSBL / ha-homewizard-energy

The old custom Home Assistant integration for HomeWizard Energy. This integration is now available in Core.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/custom-component-homewizard-energy-wifi-p1-meter-and-kwh-meter/227441
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Sensor for total kWh use #40

Closed Legoracers closed 3 years ago

Legoracers commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In Home Assistant release 2021.8.0 the new energy dashboard was added. The dashboard asks for a entity that has the total power use as a value.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like a sensor entity that adds sensor.p1_meter_total_power_import_t1 and sensor.p1_meter_total_power_import_t2 for a total power usage sensor.

Describe alternatives you've considered I added a template sensor and added the 2 using jinja templating. It works for the value but the sensor can not be used in the energy dashboard.

DCSBL commented 3 years ago

Thank you for this request! Let's discuss some things.

  1. It is not hard to add a 'total' field to this integration. But in my opinion it is up to Home Assistant to implement something to do templating without going into configuration.yaml. Even the official DSMR integration has no 'sum'. Even if I could, this implementation is not the place for such a feature don't you think?
  2. The energy dashboard allows more than one source of totals. I added T1 and T2 to my config (see screenshot), and it works just fine. So maybe you don't even need this feature. Can you try to see if this is what you need?
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Legoracers commented 3 years ago

I did not see the option to add a second consumption entity. This fixes the whole issue I have. Thank you for creating the Energy Wizard integration and thank you for the quick response!

DCSBL commented 3 years ago

Awesome! Thanks for the update. Please let me know if you have other ideas of issues!