Just playing around with the Energy Screen on the NS Panel Pro firmware 3.5 and in anticipation of Paral-Sync becoming bi-directional it’d be good to have the option of more than one Energy screen. I can see other people wanting to have a screen for electrical energy in the house and a second for electrical energy in the workshop etc.
In my case I get MQTT messages with gas and electricity meter usage. I could create virtual devices on the iHost (on second though maybe I could create a virtual device on the NSPP and not need paral-Sync) for total gas and total electricity usage each day and display them on the NSPP Energy Screen.
Is that not an eWeLink app decision? I thought the software that runs the User Interface on the NS Panel Pro was an eWeLink thing, but Sonoff do that not still?
I do though have a suggestion for Hardware though. I like the addition of opening and closing settings for the TRVZB, but how do you know? My suggestion would be a magnetic (most radiators are steel) Temperature sensor that had direct communication (I think Zigbee2MQTT calls it “bind”) with the TRVZB and updates more frequently that a normal thermostat, which could then help calibrate the TRV. Not only the Fully Open and Fully Close position but also the flow of water isn’t linearly related to % anyway. You could put the sensor on the radiator and click calibrate. I think realistically I will probably never change the % settings in the eWeLink App.
Hi, we are working on supporting multiple energy screens on NSPanel Pro, which may be supported as early as November. Please follow our follow-up updates.
That is good to hear. In the eWeLink Node Red Palette under register device which capabilities will the virtual device need to have to appear or is energy monitoring not a capability for virtual devices?
Also I have a measurement of gas usage in metres cubed which changes every 30 minutes. Assuming “energy” means only electrical energy can I change the settings option on the register device node so that it has the correct units and range or should I convert it to KWH assuming an unchanging pressure and a fixed efficiency boiler?