Change sensor_power description and unit from Energy Consumption (kWh) to Power (W)

[michel53]

The actual sensor_power description in \org.openhab.binding.zwave-master\ESH-INF\thing_channels.xml is misleading (Energy instead of power, unit kWh instead of W). It should be changed from

`

<channel-type id="sensor_power">
    <item-type>Number</item-type>
    <label>Energy Consumption</label>
    <description>Indicates the energy consumption (kWh)</description>
    <category>Energy</category>
    <state pattern="%.1f" readOnly="true">
    </state>
</channel-type>

`

to `

<channel-type id="sensor_power">
    <item-type>Number</item-type>
    <label>Actual Power Consumption</label>
    <description>Indicates the actual power consumption (W)</description>
    <category>Energy</category>
    <state pattern="%.1f" readOnly="true">
    </state>
</channel-type>

`

[cdjackson]

The above change will change all current KWH sensors to indicate W which will definitely then be wrong.

This change can only be made after a total search and replace on all channels using sensor_power in the database to change them to something else (sensor_energy?)

[michel53]

I made a quick search through org.openhab.binding.zwave-master\ESH-INF\thing\ and found 19 devices using sensor_power. All of them are using sensor_power for SENSOR_MULTILEVEL;type=POWER none for energy. Energy is only used with METER (METER;type=E_KWh). So it should be safe to change the thing_channels.xml description, right?

[michel53]

If I understand the Z-Wave spec documents right ( http://z-wave.sigmadesigns.com/design-z-wave/z-wave-public-specification/ http://zwavepublic.com/specifications ), there is no sensor type energy with a kWh scale, only sensor type power with W or kW scale. Do you agree?

[hlat]

As far as I could check it I found for energy (kWh) the METER command class, like michel53 state the sensor type is for power (Watt)

[UweRieping]

Noticed that the error is still not corrected. I'm not sure if this is a problem of the Binding but at least the documentation of the Fibaro FRG222 https://v2.openhab.org/v2.3/addons/bindings/zwave/thing.html?manufacturer=fibaro&file=fgr222_24_24.html should be changed from "Indicates the energy consumption (kWh)." to "Indicates the energy consumption (W)."

[michel53]

To be correct, it should be changed from "Indicates the energy consumption (kWh)." to "Indicates the power consumption (W)."