Support for the new Energy category in HA

[spike62]

Hi All,

I am using your wonderful code to gather info from multiple TPLINK HS-110 modules at home.

I have seen the new Energy category in HA and can set up each device to monitor the individual usages of the models.

I was wondering if any plans are afoot to update your code to support total energy sourced from Jemena as a energy source.

Thanks for your wonderful work and any responses in advance

[jessexoc]

I wanted to do this also, but I don't think this integration currently fits with the new HA Energy Management dashboard.

I believe the sensor needs to have a Sensor.type of measurement to work with HA Energy and this is supposed to only be used when the sensor is measuring real time usage.

The Home Assistant developer docs for sensor say when Sensor.type should be measurement:

The state represents a measurement in present time, not a historical aggregation such as statistics or a prediction of the future. Examples of what should be classified measurement are: current temperature, accumulated energy consumption, accumulated cost. Exampled of what should not be classified as measurement: Forecasted temperature for tomorrow, yesterday's energy consumption or anything else that doesn't include the current measurement.

The values from Jemena are all aggregate historical data already (eg yesterday_consumption). I don't think there's a live usage value coming our of the Jemena API.

[DezzyMelb]

I just raised another issue for this same thing. It would be awesome if this addon was altered. I'd do it myself but I don't code in Python and TBH Phython does my head in.