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🏡 My Home Assistant Configs.
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Better Energy Monitoring 🔌⚡ #42

Closed dannytsang closed 1 year ago

dannytsang commented 2 years ago

Get a better idea of the energy being used. With the introduction of the energy dashboard, Home Assistant makes it really easy to pull in supported energy usage.

I have already done so with compatible smart plugs. A SMET2 and GlowMarkt in home display (IHD) provides whole house usage readings. The latest additions are Shelly relays. This enhancement is to keep track of my todo list.

The goal would be to get map 50% electricity usage to the devices using it. I will exceed this if I get to 75% of electricity usage and the devices that make up that usage.

My suspected heavy usage to add to the dashboard include:

I have tried to put a Samsung SmartThings plug on a 3KW kettle and it trips the safety protection so I am using ~Aurora AOne Zigee double gang sockets~ Shelly plus 1pm.

dannytsang commented 2 years ago

I have trouble with zigbee signal for the washing machine (and fridge). It has very poor reception despite having a zigbee signal repeater in the same room. The wall socket is directly behind 1 our 3 large appliance is causing poor reception since they are big large metal objects. The washing machine probably has a large-ish motor which may also add additional power + magnetism to the mix so I need to find a different way to get reliable energy monitoring.

dannytsang commented 2 years ago

Added the fridge freezer and freezer to the energy dashboard.

On the first full day with both devices capturing energy usage data, I'm currently tracking 53.4% on a day when the other large white goods are not in use (dishwasher and washing machine). Before adding those two devices, it would have only tracked 45.2% of the total household usage.

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This is only a snapshot of one day. The next step is to see how much is tracked when the existing large white goods are in use, over a period of 1+ months and when other devices are added to the energy dashboard.

dannytsang commented 1 year ago

Final piece of the puzzle: Electric oven added using a Shelly EM. image

dannytsang commented 7 months ago

Using the Sankey card (https://github.com/MindFreeze/ha-sankey-chart): image