New smart plug won't show energy sensor

[igorsantos07]

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Describe the issue

First of all, sorry if this is a duplicated. I swear I searched around, but given it seems a pretty common problem if it is really a problem...

Anyway, I bought 4 of those generic Tuya smart plugs and distributed around the house, and configured them at different times. My fridge one is working great, as expected. However, I cannot seem to be able to create the energy sensor for one of the other plugs. I'm not sure if this could be caused by a naming confusion I made, where I renamed some plugs (as I had mixed them for installing all at the same time lol).

HA log states power sensors were not created as, indeed, they weren't needed for smart plugs - actually, I would even say this shouldn't cause an error entry?

HA log

This error originated from a custom integration. Logger: custom_components.powercalc.sensor Source: custom_components/powercalc/sensor.py:382 integration: Powercalc (documentation, issues) First occurred: 00:36:18 (11 occurrences) Last logged: 01:12:07 sensor.tomada_power: This entity has already configured a power sensor. When you want to configure it twice make sure to give it a unique_id sensor.escritorio_pc_power: This entity has already configured a power sensor. When you want to configure it twice make sure to give it a unique_id sensor.cinema_pc_power: This entity has already configured a power sensor. When you want to configure it twice make sure to give it a unique_id sensor.quarto_tv_tomada_active_power: This entity has already configured a power sensor. When you want to configure it twice make sure to give it a unique_id

Reproduction steps

1. HA > Integrations > PowerCalc > Add Entry
2. Energy from real power sensor
3. write a name, select the power sensor and the device; leave the utility meters off.
4. Yay, it confirmed it worked!
5. However, no energy sensor:

...

Debug logs

home-assistant_powercalc_2024-06-20T04-18-24.315Z.log

Diagnostics dump or YAML config

config_entry-powercalc-4c036dd8b51062d912e31c4ff5da0031.json

[bramstroker]

Looking at the logs you have the following error:

sensor.cinema_pc_power: This entity has already configured a power sensor. When you want to configure it twice make sure to give it a unique_id

I means you have setup the config flow twice selecting the same source entity.

Please check in the integration listing in powercalc page if you have setup a duplicate.

[igorsantos07]

I think I had, indeed, created a dupe to try to repeat the issue. I didn't understand that error message as the one I would be looking for, since the device is missing an energy sensor; the power sensor is already present, given it is a smart plug that already provides one.

I erased the entries in the PowerCalc page and recreated it, debug logs here. HA still states the same, about the repeated power sensor.

[bramstroker]

@igorsantos07 This is very strange. I expect to see at least a few times Creating energy sensor in the logs, but there is none such entry. Only errors about: this entity has already configured ..... This error should only appear when there was a succesfull setup for the same sensor in the first place.

Could you share a screenshot of all the powercalc configurations you have setup? And ideally also download and share the diagnostics for all of them?

Did you also define sensors using YAML configuration or did you only use the GUI?

Are you using latest version of Powercalc?

[igorsantos07]

Strange indeed! haha

All GUI, latest version. The only mention to powercalc in my YAML files was enabling the debug logger, which could be helpful so I enabled it as well. After some restarts and the fact I changed tabs to other problematic integrations and forgot this one (lol), I enabled debug logging for PowerCalc, and went to delete the affected device........... guess what, the energy sensor was there :joy:

I'm glad I took screenshots, so you don't think I'm a liar. At some point, in between this morning and my last posts, the sensor was created - I know because when I saw your message this morning I took an early screenshot from the list, before wandering away, and the entity was already there.

2024-06-22 18:24:28.720 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.discovery] sensor.tomada_do_pc_do_cinema_energy: Auto discovered model (manufacturer=Tuya, model=Smart Plug (j20xh6tbtz8rn2sr)) 2024-06-22 18:24:28.721 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.discovery] sensor.tomada_do_pc_do_cinema_energy: Model not found in library, skipping discovery 2024-06-22 18:24:29.338 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.energy] Creating energy sensor (entity_id=sensor.tomada_do_pc_do_cinema_energy, source_entity=sensor.cinema_pc_power, unit_prefix=k)

Then, I created the sensors for the last power plug... and the energy entity was created correctly.

Bottom-line: I guess the culprit is the wind :man_shrugging: Thanks for the emotional support anyway :joy:

[igorsantos07]

I just set up two other devices (so I could erase my old "integral sensors" from my smart ACs) and, again, the entities were created correctly - even though the devices already had an energy sensor (not with the same entity ID, though).

[bramstroker]

Oh haha, glad you got it resolved. Must be the wind :wink: Keep an eye on it, let me know if you experience any errors or stability issues.