Hi Stephen, do you think you might change the name to ‘electricity dashboard’ or include gas? I think “energy’ has the potential to confuse people, at least in the U.K. where in winter most energy comes from Natural Gas (minority oil, wood, butane tanks or shared heating). Most often we have pipes running into the house carrying the gas. I think this is true in much of Europe and US too.
One alternative is that here “smart meter”s send gas usage data (think in KWh) to a central database (they use mobile phone networks themselves. Typically the gas meter talks to the electricity meter, which talks to the central server) you could access, but I don’t know how standard these databases are between countries. These predate the U.K. leaving the EU so I suspect the EU schemes are all similar. They aren’t “live”: about 30 minute delay.
There are devices that sit on the private encrypted network between the Electricity smart meter and the Gas smart meter and then send the data via MQTT (eg. to Home Assistant). They are nearer “live”, but I suspect they vary a lot between countries. Look up “GlowMarkt” for the U.K. type.
The decision to change the name of the Energy Dashboard to a more specific one is not within my control, but I will certainly pass along your suggestion to the team for their consideration. Thank you for your input!
As for the "smart meter”, start to do some research on it
You may find it easier to look for SMETS 1 or SMETS2. The original smart meters in England/wales and possible Scotland were called SMETS 1. And 2 is the later generation. Suspect there is a similar scheme across the then EU. Started in U.K. ~2013.
It would be very useful to be able to update the energy prices in one place that updates all of the devices instead of having to update every device individually
Any updates on consumption costs, prices per kW? Do you have it on your agenda?
I believe it is not difficult to make such a feature, and it would be very helpful, at least for Sonoff POW series devices (Elite, etc.).
I have two POW Elites that are used for heating and hot water. Since these two spend the most during the month, it would be good to have an estimate of how much the bill will be at the end of the month.
In essence, it is only necessary to multiply the total consumption with the price per kW.
I am aware that there could be several prices during the day, but for start we could have one fixed price per kW. After that you can expand the feature with additional details (variable pricing, etc.).
Hi, Is there any way to share only the Energy Dashboard in read-only mode ? i´m needinng this on a Room Rental to provide reatime monitoring to clients.
I think that allowing users to share the energy dashboard with others in read-only mode is a fantastic idea . This feature would provide users with the ability to share their energy consumption data with others, such as family members or friends, without granting them full access to control the devices.
Hi there, we understand that the addition of the electricity cost calculation feature to the Energy Dashboard would be very helpful to our users. Currently, we are in the process of collecting user requirements and evaluating them with our development team. We apologize for the delay in implementing this functionality and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Rest assured, we will keep you updated on any progress and appreciate your continued support.
what happened to energy dashboard?Disapeared.It was a great thing,now I don t have it anymore.Is it only me or a bug or what?Not even under pilot features
Hello,
It struck me that you have 243.19v. That’s a bit more than it should be. Ask your energy supplier why it is so high! And if it is so much, it is possible that one day it will be even higher!
It is normal in U.K. I generally get just over 240. Before europe and U.K. electricity merged U.K. was 240 and Europe 220, so rather than do anything they just said 230 +/- 10% (I think). I have a German Uninterruptible Power Supply that goes off regularly because their 220V plus 10% is only 242V which happens quite often and there is no way to tell it the power is normally 240 here.
I never liked the use of the word “energy” because gas is also energy but now I have gas (and total electricity) from my U.K. SMETS1 “Smart” meters sent to my Sonoff iHost Node-RED locally using MQTT from a Glowmarkt display. I don’t imagine this is only possible in U.K. Is it possible to have a local energy display with an option to add data from Node-RED added to the eWeLink Cube? I could also add all my other switches without power to Node-RED if there was an exit point to the Energy Dashboard. I think NS Panel Pro also runs node-RED so it should be possible there too. EWeLink Cube in node-RED also seems to lack power as a type and power is just a simple on/off and a time, although it has temperature/humidity, which is odd.
Thanks, Eerke
edited to add: the other really weird omission (as well as no power in eWelinkCUBE on Node-RED) is that the iHost alarm is controllable from node-red but not a trigger for a flow. If it were just a trigger you could connect the iHost Alarm to a free IFTTT account with a webhook and get Push notifications if the alarm was triggered.
Also thinking back maybe temperature/humidity is available for Zigbee sensors but not the TH devices. Might be wrong though. Just thinking back.
Hi there, with this new version of V5.0, the “Energy Dashboard” feature is now publicly available and has been moved to the “Insights” tab as a key highlight.
Yes. I double checked. If the power usage or TH-Temperature/Humidity is available to Node-RED I can’t find it. Maybe it is under “all” but it’s not updating. I can also find out how to use the iHost Security as an INPUT but not the status as an OUTPUT.
Also having got energy data as regards Gas and Total Electricity into NodeRED I would like to be able to add the information to an energy dashboard.
. This feature would provide users with the ability to share their energy consumption data with others, such as family members or friends, without granting them full access to control the devices.