sick lintel
I have a sensor with power ,
it's correctly referenced on my dashboard config,
the "energy" part is displayed but not the "power" part...
might it be because the value is constant (always at 6W )?
(for ref https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/issues/3697)
sick lintel
attributes are like this
calculation_mode: fixed
integration: powercalc
source_entity: sensor.dummy
source_domain: sensor
energy_sensor_entity_id: sensor.ducobox_ventillation_energy
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
friendly_name: Ducobox - Ventillation power
outer parcel
What do you mean by "missing"
spark flame
@outer parcel Thanks, I just noticed this thread. I'm the maintainer of Powercalc and received a support request about entities missing from the Energy Dashboard’s power (Sankey) chart in the latest HA release.
I did some testing myself and can confirm that a number of entities don’t appear in the Sankey view either. I’ve added some additional details and findings in a comment on the related issue:
https://github.com/bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc/issues/3697#issuecomment-3617823334
Maybe you have an idea what could be the root cause.
It doesn't seem a Powercalc issue anyway as I got issues with power sensors from other core integrations as well.
outer parcel
Are they actively consuming energy? There might be a filter in sankey for zero or very close to zero entities so they don't clutter.
// Minimum power threshold in kW to display a device node
const MIN_POWER_THRESHOLD = 0.01;
Need to check that, diepvries, espressomachine are probably not using anything currently, so it seems that could very likely be the cause of most missing sensors for me. Will check some others.
But that doesn't explain the "static" sensors to be missing. I created a template sensor with static 20W value, but that is also missing. Did that because the issue raised in Powercalc is also about a virtual power sensor having a constant (not changing) value, so might be there is a problem with that scenario.
outer parcel
I can't think of any reason why a static entity would behave differently.
Suggest just open up an issue for that one. (include an energy diagnostic json would help)
spark flame
I can't think of any reason why a static entity would behave differently.
Is the power sankey chart getting information directly from state machine or statistics table(s)?
I tried to set state of template sensor to some other values, 30, 40W etc, but still not appearing. Very strange.
outer parcel
I don't immediately know as I didn't write it, but an issue would be the right way to go about debugging it.
spark flame
Nevermind it's appearing now, I did not configure it in energy configuration, but pretty sure I did lol.
Will try with another template sensor and keep it static.
@outer parcel with a new static template sensor it's also working fine. Will do some further debugging.
Thanks for the tip about the threshold, didn't know what the value was.
static 40.00W template sensor
Oh reading @sick lintel again, it's explained now, as 6W is below the 10W treshold 🤦♂️
sick lintel
ooooh, ok ok, make sense
thanks @spark flame for the help here 🙂
bit sad of the 10W limit, but i get the reason ofc
spark flame
Yes I find 10W also a bit high, but I understand why it is there, because the sankey chart will quickly become unreabable with lots of small consumption entities.
Might be an idea to add a small explainer above the sankey chart to prevent unnessary issues being raised on discord and HA/powercalc issue trackers.
sick lintel
yeah was thinking maybe having a branch "small stuff" (wording may very ofc 😅 ) to avoid it falling in the untracked (which i guess it does? )