Powercalc Group shows wrong Power Sensors / (counts Device Power instead of Power)

[ChuckNorris9939]

Powercalc Group shows wrong Power Sensors / (counts Device Power instead of Power)

[bramstroker]

This is actually working as expected.
The discovered smart plugs only provide a virtual power sensor for the self usage of the smart plug. They all consume a littlebit of energy, and Powercalc creates a power and energy sensor to get insights in these. These are called "Device power" by convention.
Entities for the actual power used by the connected appliance are already applied by the integration providing the smart plug.

To also include the existing power and energy sensors in your group (not the virtual "device power" ones) you can add the in Additional power sensors and Additional energy sensors options.

Hope this helps and clarifies things up for you.

[ChuckNorris9939]

Okay Thanks. then I guess I just use the Additional sensors for the non virtual Plugs..

My thought was, when I enable Utility Meter after adding the Shelly Plug through discovey dont I have Powercalc power sensor then?

Does this not work because the Shelly Integration power sensor still exist in Background?

[bramstroker]

When you toggle utility meter for the "discovered" shelly plug profile, it only applies to the virtual power and energy sensor created by powercalc.
As that whole GUI configuration entry is purely for the self usage / device power of the smart plug.

When you also would like to create the utility meters for the existing power and energy sensors provided by the smart plug itself you can use the "Real power" option, see here: https://homeassistant-powercalc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sensor-types/real-power-sensor.html.
When you've done that you can also add it as a member sensor to the group, and you don't have to use Additional power sensors and Additional energy sensors options in that case.

[ChuckNorris9939]

I recreated 2 Sensors in GUI using Energy from real power sensor. One with utility meter enabled and one without.

When i create a group they both dont show up in the list of available members.
I also reloaded hassio

[bramstroker]

By recreated you mean you removed the ones added by powercalc and created manually using "Energy from real power" option?
That means you'll lose the sensors listing the self usage of the plugs, as I can also see in your screenshot. The Device power sensors are not there anymore. I meant to say in my comment to add the "Energy from real power" additionally to the existing sensors from powercalc library.
But if you are not interested in the self consumption of the plugs you can of course remove them.

You mean they are not selectable here?

[ChuckNorris9939]

By recreated you mean you removed the ones added by powercalc and created manually using "Energy from real power" option?

Yes. I removed them and used this one:

I meant to say in my comment to add the "Energy from real power" additionally to the existing sensors from powercalc library.

Then i got one from library
and one from real power
Then I can select the one from library but this does not change behaivour.
or did I get it wrong?

You mean they are not selectable here?

Correct, the Energy from real power sensor ones from the screenshot dont show up there.

[bramstroker]

Could you share the diagnostics from the two integration entries you added?

And screenshot of what you see in the Member entities dropdown?

That might help finding the issue.

[ChuckNorris9939]

Sure
Plug 1: config_entry-powercalc-b911aa47e27e28bf6abee4b0828c60f9.json

Plug 4: config_entry-powercalc-a26ffec2a83a8a9f923ba3ca27a94a2d.json

PlusPlugS4 is the discovered one / from library : config_entry-powercalc-310939cde88624e10fadf695cadb5270.json

[bramstroker]

I have looked into the code and only powercalc entries created with "Virtual power (manual or library)" are listed here.
I'll have a look if I can also add the "Energy from real power" to be selected. Will need to do some testing and verification. Will come back on it soon.

[bramstroker]

Fixed with #2187.
You can install the master branch with HACS to test.
Or wait until next release, but that will probably be next weekend.

[ChuckNorris9939]

Great 👍 I'm gonna test with next release update.