flautze
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10 months ago Hello, The sensors are listed here as well: https://github.com/flautze/home_assistant_waterkotte#changes-required
Power - sensor.heatpump_power So yes, these 2 sensors are not available from the integration. Shelly_power is coming from a Shelly 3EM which I use to measure the power consumption and energy of the heatpump (it replaced the additional Energy Counter from the Energy Company). I trust these values more than I trust the electric power from Waterkotte ;) You can use any sensor instead or just remove that line.
"SG-ready"
When I had the last service of my heatpump I discussed with the technician how to do it. Anyhow, I just removed the sidepanel of the heatpump, then pulled out the board with all the electrical components (it was secured with 1 or 2 screws)
Since I know which were the 230V and neutral I connected the power of the Shelly 1 Plus to that, and then the switching output to X2 34/gnd - according to the manual of my heatpump.
Please note, that you should have good WIFI in that location, since Shelly uses WIFI to ciommunicate. My Access point is approx. 2-3 meters away so I have a good signal even with the Shelly installed inside the heatpump. You could also probably route the cable out in the back so the Shelly sits outside the heatpump, but I did not want to expose the 230VAC outside the heatpump.
For switching the shelly I created an automation in HA, which very simply looks at the current solar yield as well as the forecast and then switches accordingly. If you do not need that component, then simply leave out or replace with something else.
Calculated Sensors usually there is several ways to use own sensors in Homeassistant. I recommend the addon Visual Studi Code Server to edit these files (or alternative File Editor addon).
Where you would put that coding depends on how your configuration.yml file is set up. 1) if you have all your custom config in the configuration.yml then simply copy/paste the templates.yml code to your configuration.yml 2) sometimes there is an include for all templates in the configuration.yaml. It looks like this template: !include templates.yaml If you have that you need to put the coding into the templates.yaml.
Please note: I have changed the coding in templates.yaml in my repo to match the formatting requirements of the templates.yaml. Also I have created another file. configuration.yaml, so if you use way 1) you have to copy/paste the coding from that.
So, I have created a new file configuration.yaml and changed the templates.yaml. If you do your manual sensors via configuration.yaml then use the code from that respective file and copy/past. Please note however you should only have each tag once, so if you already have a template: section, remove that line. If this is your first custom sensors, simply copy/paste. If you want to define the templates in the templates.yaml, add the "include" I described above, and then copy/past the coding from templates.yaml to your templates.yaml.
Conclusion
- Yes
- Sure, it can be whatever. Or you can remove it.
- As described above, use the coding of configuration.yaml
- yes
- The folder of the graphics is identical to the folder which you should see on your Home Assistant installation. In order to do that you might want to set up Samba-service to access these folders via Windows ( go to settings -> addons and look for Samba Share in the Store)
- you do not need to remove it. If you click on the icons it will simply not navigate if the page is not available. However you can also remove it.
- Yes, create a new card - any type, and switch to YAML-mode, then copy/paste.
marq24
additional Sensors
In your readme you mentioned: There are several entities that are not... I have found these two - so "several" = 2 right?
power - sensor.heatpump_power
For the power-consumption: I assume you have some sort of additional meter in front of your waterkotte, so that you don't have to use
sensor.wkh_power_electric[and of course this sensor of the integration is providing data in kW]"SG-Ready" - switch.shellyplus1_441793cd71c8_switch_0
This might be very interesting for me (and probably other) - I assume you have build/attached to your waterkotte a shelly switch - and when you trigger this shelly the waterkotter received the required SG-Ready signal?
I would like to see details about this - specially the wiring of the shelly and the waterkotte "main-bus" - IMHO there are two SG-ready lines - my understanding is, that there are two independent channels... I have a SG-Ready component also in my PV-unit - but this is not connected to the waterkotte yet - and if I could simply trigger the SG-Ready stuff manually (via HA) by triggering a shelly I would also like to have this [I have already I shelly pro 4pm in my garage - using it mainly for controlling the garden-water-pump and the pool]...
calculated Sensors...
You provide all of the additional required (calculatable) sensors in the https://github.com/flautze/home_assistant_waterkotte/blob/e0f7c37dbfc239de030cdd24ee47d32839765111/templates.yml file - I guess (i never did that) it's possible in HA to separate template sensors in a additional file... Is it then required to link this additional file in the main configuration.yaml - or is this only the case, if I am using a different filename? [in my local setup I always include all additional template/rest sensors in the main configuration.yaml OR I have a single separate file per "feature" (linked in the main configuration) that includes all the additional sensors, helpers and automations]
conclution
and I am done - right?