Feature request: making the Electricity Capacity accessory more useful
#72
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Note that there's a similar conversion for Gas and Water. The Total Consumption value is in m3 (but Eve displays kWh). The history entry values are "power" (in litres per hour), and the bar graphs shows consumption in litres (as Wh) or m3 (as kWh). I don't expose Current Consumption as the P1 only reports gas or water consumption every 5 minutes. I don't think seeing the average "power" (in litres per hour) over 5 minutes would bring any value, and it would add to the confusion. |
- Remove `outlet` setting; - Remove separate ElectricityCapability accessory, see #72.
- Remove separate ElectricityCapability accessory, see #72. - Expose ElectricityCapacity as _Air Pressure_ on Electricity accessory, incl. Eve history, see #72; - Expose _Current Consumption_ (computed from delta in _Total Consumption_) on Gas and Water accessories. - Bug fix: use Electricity accessory _Log Level_ for other accessories, see #71 .
- Remove separate ElectricityCapability accessory, see #72. - Expose ElectricityCapacity as _Air Pressure_ on Electricity accessory, incl. Eve history, see #72; - Expose _Current Consumption_ (computed from delta in _Total Consumption_) on Gas and Water accessories. - Expose all accessories using _Outlet_ service.
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Could you try beta v1.3.4-0? This version no longer exposes a separate ElectricityCapacity accessory, but adds Air Pressure to the Electricity accessories, incl. history. The value is the peak capacity (from
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Would it be possible to expose this as an additional characteristic?
Given a7bb3de's change to Eve history support … is it safe for me to update? What will the consequences be for the Eve app? Any special steps I need to take? |
With exactly the same value?
Yes, each history entry includes info on which values it contains. The graph for Air Pressure will simply show no values for the entries created under a previous version, without a value for Air Pressure. Only if you un-expose and re-expose an accessory, you might need to delete the history already downloaded by Eve. I still don't know how Eve accessories tell the Eve app that history has been re-initialised on factory reset. |
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Did that. The reboot in action: I see an P.S.: I updated beyond P.P.S.: the |
That's Homebridge P1 connecting to the P1 port while it's sending a telegram, causing it to receive only a part of the telegram. Pretty common for DSMR 5, which sends a telegram every second.
That's a seconds later, after the first telegram has been received in full.
Beware that there might also be changes to homebridge-lib. |
Very interesting, and confirmed just now: 👍
Yep! Checking those too 😊 |
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I've now been running this for a while. So I started looking at the data, to check if it makes sense. And it does not … at least not at first sight — I'm hoping you can help me understand 😊
☝️ This is last night, in the middle of the night. It sometimes goes down to 14 hPa … which AFAIK means "14 Watt used on average for the past 10 minutes" (since you're aligning to Eve's 10-min resolution, not to Fluvius' 15-min resolution). But … I only wish my idle power consumption in the middle of the night would drop to 14 hPa 😅 That's never actually the case! So perhaps it should be multiplied by 6? 6*14 = 84 W. That is possible. However, if that is accurate, then something else does not make sense:
The highest peak in the last week is 1489 hPa. Multiplied by 6 yields 8934W. It's absolutely impossible for me to reach that level of consumption. I'd need to run a hairdryer, washer, dryer, oven, stove, microwave, toaster, coffee machine all at the same time and then I'd maybe get there. (That scenario definitely didn't happen 😅) So … any idea what's going on here? How should I interpret the numbers reported by |
No. The history is just the value reported by the meter as average power, in W. So it means over the past 15 minutes, the (running) average power was 14W. So that amounts to a consumption of 14W15m60s/m = 12,600 Ws, or 3.5 Wh during the last 15 minutes. 10 minutes later, the running average power was 72W, resulting in a consumption of 18Wh for the last 15 minutes. Note that 5 minutes of this period overlap with the previous period, so you cannot add up these numbers to know the consumption of the last 30 minutes (or even 20 minutes).
Did you check the Homebridge log? With log level 1 or higher, it lists the average consumption value as it’s being updated. |
ff35d99 implemented capacity tariff support. As promised in #69 (comment), I've been testing and am now reporting back 😊
Electricity Capacity:1.4.0(current window's average consumption),1.6.0(current month's consumption peak) and98.1.0(previous months' consumption peaks). I posted a detailed analysis + proposal at Belgium (Fluvius) v1.7 datagrams: capacity tariff #69 (comment) previously.Electricity Capacityas already exists forElectricity? That'd be super valuable while refining this functionality! (Especially combined with Feature request: log level management forGasandElectricity Capacity#71.) If I'd be able to observe1.4.0in real-time in the log, that'd be very powerful.Electricity Capacityis either wrong or misleading? 😅Should I multiply the values by 6?I should, you wrote that previously at Belgium (Fluvius) v1.7 datagrams: capacity tariff #69 (comment)! I agree that showing a line would be more helpful, perhaps as Air Pressure. I can confirm that the current result is useless:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: