Does my smart meter work with Homey Energy?

i am using this, but the usage is not shown as grid usage, is this buggy?

Which version are you using?

Homey Pro: 12.3.0-rc.7
App: frient v.2.5.2
iOS App: 9.1.0 (1641)

Sorry needed to be more clear! Which version of the meter? Pulse, P1 or HAN.

No Problem, it’s the Pulse (IR LED) one

Thank you! The Pulse relies on the data it receives from the meter, which only reflects the current power usage of your home. As a result, it cannot provide a breakdown of the imported and exported power.

However, it should display the total imported power based on the kWh it measures. I’ll check with Frient and get back to you.

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@JayR Should be fixed in the new test version of the App!

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Can we also use the toon water app from community to see the water results in energy daahboard?

As I (and I believe this to be a lot of people) am not able to integrate my Enphase micro-inverters on my solar panels into Homey Pro, I am not able to see that energy flow in Homey (Energy).
As I would appreciate this information, I had requested whether this would be possible via my Sessy battery which has a dedicated P1 port for PV system (I have currently my power from my solar panels connected to the Sessy) but I got the answer that this would be a too big effort to implement in the Sessy app.
A workaround I am thinking about is (when it would work) is to implement a Shelly Pro EM-50 to measure the power generated by my solar panels. But I do not know whether this power meter can be assigned to be the power meter for my solar panels, so that it would show up in Homey Energy as an energy flow entering the house?

To set up any energy-measuring device as solar panels in Homey, simply go to the device settings and select Solar Panels under the What’s plugged in? section. Homey will then recognize the device as solar panels.

@Doekse, what’s about virtual devices?
What requirements must be met for values from virtual devices to be shown in the energy dashboard?

The use case is that I want to transmit the values from the electricity meter with an IR sensor via MQTT and transfer these values into a virtual device (AVD) using the Device Capabilities app.

At the moment, I’m using Home Assistant and the HA Community app as temporally workaround.
In the virtual device, I use the Homey Capabilities measure_power and meter_power with the following device settings:
Device type: Sensor
Cumulative energy measurement: Yes
Include in total: Yes
Exclude from energy: No

But in the energy dashboard only measure_power is shown. Why?

I think what’s missing here is the Tracks total home energy consumption setting that’s added by adding the cumulative property to a device. It is described here in our SDK.

Not really. At least this option is activated in the device settings:

Of course, I don’t know whether this function is also correctly implemented in the app.

To set up any energy-measuring device as solar panels in Homey, simply go to the device settings and select Solar Panels under the What’s plugged in? section. Homey will then recognize the device as solar panels.

The developer of the Sessy app and myself both came nearly at the same time with the same idea which also @DirkG wrote here; solving it with a Virtual Device.

I have installed the Virtual Device app:

When installing a new Virtual Device you can indicate that it needs to be sensor for both power and energy (at least I tried both as a first go). I already had every 15 seconds a flow running to update the PV power to Power by the Hour, and I added a card to update the sensor value energy of the virtual device and a card to update the sensor value power of the virtual device. This appear to be working, although I can not see any Watt from my PV as sun has set. It also updated Homey Energy to show now also solar panels, so looks like this is a nice workaround.

As I likely will sell my Sessy as it is not to my expectations, then I now know that I can implement a Shelle Pro EM-50 to do the job.

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The test version of the Iungo app is updated for Homey Energy, Iungo App voor Homey | Homey

Providing support for the P1 meter (Electricity, Gas), pulse meter (Electricity, Gas, Water), energy kWh meters (bruto (pulse based) and modbus)

@Frank_van_Son I have a Shelly EM (50) monitoring my solar panels. Today I’ve tried different setups with Advanced Virtual Devices but couldn’t achieve what is needed to make it work. I use the same Shelly device in both Home Assistant and Homey, in HA it works correctly, in Homey it doesn’t. Apparently I currently need the “meter_powered_returned” data and not “meter_power” data (but no way to choose that in Homey).

I guess I will need to re-invert the current probes on the wiring. I had them inverted for the old Homey Energy to work, and inverted the measurement in HA through a calculation which does the job there. That’s why you see 3253.88 kWh for “meter_power” and 1605.424 kWh for “meter_power_returned” in the image below, the latter was 0 before I inverted the current probes and “meter_power” didn’t change since then. So, in short, Homey sees Solar Energy but not from the right meter (meter_power) which you can see in the second image (0Wh, but a chart underneath that shows solar generation).
So tomorrow I’ll get back to the old situation (meter_power for Homey) and see how that goes.

Let us know how your solution works!


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Let us know how your solution works!

I had to pick another card to passthrough energy and power, and with that implemented I now see the power that my solar panels are delivering.

The energy is passed through now too, but as I did the change of cards just a few minutes ago it did not change vales so not visible yet.

Let us know how your solution works!

And also the energy counter is working as can be seen on the print screen below.

Anyone testen the p1 app? I don’t have solar.

@Frank_van_Son Looks good. With the current probe of the EM 50 inverted I am now using “meter_power” capability correctly in Homey instead of “meter_power_returned” but as expected it gives a negative value. I can not change that in the Shelly app. If I want it to be positive I need to invert the current probe but then I am back at “meter_power_returned” which Homey can’t use, arrggghh…
I should find a way to make that value positive (e.g. “negative value” * -1), I guess through a (Advanced) Virtual Device. Any clues on how to achieve this?