Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights
homeassistant-powercalc
Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances. Provides easy configuration to get virtual power consumption sensors in Home Assistant for all your devices which don’t have a build in power meter. This component estimates power usage by looking at brightness, hue/saturation and color temperature etc using different strategies. They are explained below. Power sensors can be created for light, switch, fan, binary_sensor, input_boolean, remote and media_player entities
Installation
HACS
This integration is part of the default HACS repository. Just click “Explore and add repository” to install
Manual
Copy custom_components/powercalc
into your Home Assistant config
directory.
Configuration
Each virtual power sensor have it’s own configuration possibilities. They are as follows:
Name | Type | Requirement | Description |
---|---|---|---|
entity_id | string |