ulic75 / power-flow-card

A power distribution card inspired by the official Energy Distribution card for Home Assistant
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Feature request - sensor for consumption #75

Open robinostlund opened 2 years ago

robinostlund commented 2 years ago

Hi, I am wondering if it would be able to specify a sensor for the consumption as i sometimes see the calculations be wrong when the solar power sensor slowly changes. I have a smartmeter that is giving me the consumption power already so it would be nice to be able to use that instead :)

ulic75 commented 2 years ago

Are you certain it's not just a difference in rounding?

tane64 commented 2 years ago

Same probleem here I can confirm that.

I have the fallowing sensors:

Solar production (enphase: update: 30 seconds) power consumed from the grid (smart meter: update every seconds) power produced to the grid (smart meter: update seconds) Current Power Consumption (enphase: update 30 seconds) Sample: (this will be correct in 30 seconds but it will display high house usage for short time) Solar production: 3650 watt House consumption 360 watt House to grid: 2150 watt Grid to house : 0 watt

robinostlund commented 2 years ago

Yes certain that it is not rounding :) Solar power sensors updates every 30 second and consumption/grid sensor = every second :) So i have the same as @tane64 :)

richsimpson commented 2 years ago

Just installed, great to be able to use this card in dashboards but same problem. I have an entity for the consumption and the value is different to what the card has decided is the consumption. 5.5 actual versus 5.8 being shown

Yagu-znal commented 2 years ago

The difference is a loss because of system inefficiencies. Mine ads up to about 20 or 30 watts loss in heat.

Ndrinta commented 2 years ago

I wanted to open an issue for the same problem then I found this. I can see the issue it's been closed thought, what was the proposed solution to remove losses from the Home value?

ethanbenj commented 1 year ago

Just wanted to push this issue. Would be great to have the option to spec a specific house consumption sensor. My difference is about 70w.