Possibility to add support for Energy meter (PVoutput)

[patchworkboy]

Possibility to add support for Energy meter (PVoutput)

[PatchworkBoy]

Blimey that's a lot of juice!! Will have a look tomorrow evening...

[odelma]

I think that's about four years of usage there and when you add together Finland + winter months + heating with electricity = a lot of juice :) But it is actually not that uncommon to have that kind of figure for one or two year's usage in case you have a bit older house.

[PatchworkBoy]

Put it this way, your CounterToday = my monthly total average...!

[odelma]

Whoa, that's nice! Surely you have some sort of solar system hooked up then? In our home just the base consumption from all the continuously running appliances (without any heating) is around 400W+ range (~10-12kWh/d). So basically we never get a month under 500kWh when even during the summer time the water needs to be heated. But I guess we need to start thinking of ways to reduce the usage as the company operating the grids just announced an increase of 40% to transmission prices...:)

[PatchworkBoy]

Nope. No renewables of any form. All the lights are LED tho, that brought things down significantly.
Baseline when we're tucked up in bed at night is 140w with occasional peaks to 300w when either the fridge or one of the 2x freezers' thermostats kick in. All our hot water and heating is via gas.

On a "heavy" electric use day, we go thru about 13kWh. On a normal day, about 4kWh.

[PatchworkBoy]

OK - so there’s no reason that shouldn’t be working... unless it’s down to the Data string length being too long... but then it wouldn’t have ever worked if that was the case so this one’s got me stumped.

Here’s the output from my sensor - the plugin just checks for Type: General, SubType: kWh, and then pulls in Usage, Data & CounterToday as you correctly identified.

{
"AddjMulti" : 1.0,
"AddjMulti2" : 1.0,
"AddjValue" : 0.0,
"AddjValue2" : 0.0,
"BatteryLevel" : 255,
"CounterToday" : "0.000 kWh”,
"CustomImage" : 0,
"Data" : "6.195 kWh”,
"Description" : “”,
"Favorite" : 0,
"HardwareID" : 5,
"HardwareName" : "eOn Elec”,
"HardwareType" : "Dummy (Does nothing, use for virtual switches only)”,
"HardwareTypeVal" : 15,
"HaveTimeout" : false,
"ID" : “00082028”,
"LastUpdate" : "2016-02-04 17:38:51”,
"Name" : "Household Electricity”,
"Notifications" : “false”,
"PlanID" : “0”,
"PlanIDs" : [ 0 ],
"Protected" : false,
"ShowNotifications" : true,
"SignalLevel" : “-“,
"SubType" : “kWh”,
"SwitchTypeVal" : 0,
"Timers" : “false”,
"Type" : “General”,
"TypeImg" : “current”,
"Unit" : 1,
"Usage" : "1113.0 Watt”,
"Used" : 1,
"XOffset" : “0”,
"YOffset" : “0”,
"idx" : “29”
},

Remove the homebridge device from within your app. If Eve, settings > accessories > name of your bridge, Remove Accessory. That’ll take all the devices with it. No need to reset all HomeKit Data (that way you at least get to keep your room and scene names set up in home kit - all you have to do is add devices back to rooms and actions back to scenes).

If Home.app, find the bridge device in your default room unless you moved it, swipe left on it, hit the delete button.

Empty your ~/.homebridge/persist folder, restart Homebridge, then re-pair your app with the homebridge device for a complete refresh - all I can suggest at the moment! Sorry!

[odelma]

Hi, this was my bad. I was looking at the logs from Homebridge and saw that it was registering the Energy device just fine. I then took a closer look at Eve app and noticed that for some reason, after the Homekit reset (and then reconnecting to Homebridge) the types Current Usage, Current Consumption and Total Consumption were not enabled by default in Eve. After enabling those, the energy meter devices (Total & current consumption) are visible once again. Sorry for all the trouble.

[odelma]

Well, I'll still add that the value from "CounterToday" is not showing anywhere (or I wasn't at least able to find it) but probably it wasn't even before the update.

[PatchworkBoy]

No worries - that's caught me out a few times too. CounterToday I tried adding this evening as previously wasn't there, but doesn't pull through for me either so I left it out for now. Saturdays are my main coding days so will be trying to get it going then...

[PatchworkBoy]

Righty - CounterToday is fixed... no need to trash persist, just update the files, restart Homebridge, restart your HomeKit apps once homebridge comes back up, and the Today value should appear.

I had to restart my iOS device to get everything behaving properly...

[odelma]

Thanks, works great now! 😄