Autodetection of Power Measurement Device

[FlexerJR]

Thanks for that great adapter.

It would be awesome to scan the iobroker itself for power measurement devices.

If a device is found in iobroker the adapter will autolog it.

Greetings Flexer

[DutchmanNL]

nice idea, questions :

• How should we select which state is an power state ? Do you have examples of device and their raw data ?
• is it always clear what kind of consumption device it is ? Units are recognized bu itself, but we need to understand if the device is related to consumption or delivery and what should be logged.

Any ideas how to figure that out ? ( I am thinking about using functions or standard values

[FlexerJR]

Normaly when installing a power measuring device in a smart home system it is named strom fernseher or power xyz. The adapter could filter channels in datatrees with power or strom or something that is very close to it

[raintonr]

I created an adapter which interfaces with a power measurement device: https://github.com/raintonr/ioBroker.legrand-ecocompteur.

TBH I think it's asking too much to have sourceanalytix auto create configuration for all such devices. What could be useful though, is that sourceanalytix could supply a library that foreign adapters (such as mine I mention above) could utilise to generate configuration.

For example, my legrand-ecocompteur adapter actually performs it's own kWh calculations. I could create a config setting that disables those in favour of using sourceanalytix. Such a setting would also trigger a call to the sourceanalytix library I mention would be required which would enable correct sourceanalytix config settings for all the states legrand-ecocompteur writes to.

The call would need simply need to pass full state ID with it's type and units. However... that could become tricky because I notice type is actually user configurable in the price definitions. So either they would need to be standardised or this could all become a little problematic :(