# Exclude energy meter

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [January 2, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398 "2026-01-02T20:59:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Erwin\_Spierts](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erwin_spierts/32/17180_2.png) [@Erwin\_Spierts](https://community.homey.app/u/Erwin_Spierts)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/1 "2026-01-02T20:59:53Z")

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Hi,

I’ve a general energy meter for all devices in the garden and I have also 3 separate sockets with an energy meter. I want to exclude these sockets from the general energy meter in the energy dashboard because these 3 are now counting double. Is that configurable somehow?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/2 "2026-01-03T00:59:18Z")

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Advanced device settings

 ![Screenshot_20260103_015829_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/b/6b347a6ebd7b07b7b89f1d4666cdae94b855627f.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Erwin\_Spierts](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erwin_spierts/32/17180_2.png) [@Erwin\_Spierts](https://community.homey.app/u/Erwin_Spierts)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 8:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/3 "2026-01-03T08:47:12Z")

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Thanks but it does not work like that on my homey. Does it work different for 2019 models?

 ![Screenshot_20260103_094528_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/5/85b09926c6cb8e0a2b521485c14310b95d03d734.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/4 "2026-01-03T15:24:16Z")

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I don’t have it either on my Pro 2019, so it seems that it works differently.

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**Author:** ![Techniman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/techniman/32/8654_2.png) [@Techniman](https://community.homey.app/u/Techniman)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/5 "2026-01-03T16:06:03Z")

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What if you install the virtual device app and create a new virtual device. In a flow you take the sum of the 3 plugs and calculate {{ sum \* -1 }} and set the measure\_power of this virtual device to this negative value, that should negate the double counting

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/6 "2026-01-04T02:58:45Z")

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Yeah it seems related to the energy tab @ Pro 2023 and up. My bad.

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**Author:** ![Erwin\_Spierts](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erwin_spierts/32/17180_2.png) [@Erwin\_Spierts](https://community.homey.app/u/Erwin_Spierts)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 9:12am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/7 "2026-01-04T09:12:56Z")

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Thanks for the tips. That virtual device could indeed work. It looks like the 2019 model has limited functionality. I just ordered a 2025 model.

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**Author:** ![Erwin\_Spierts](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erwin_spierts/32/17180_2.png) [@Erwin\_Spierts](https://community.homey.app/u/Erwin_Spierts)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/8 "2026-01-10T21:15:42Z")

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What do you recommended to use as trigger for the flow?

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**Author:** ![Techniman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/techniman/32/8654_2.png) [@Techniman](https://community.homey.app/u/Techniman)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 9:12am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/exclude-energy-meter/148398/9 "2026-01-11T09:12:24Z")

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I’d use the “power changed” for the main plug, that way it captures the changes for all 3