Homey Energy — Public Beta Megathread

Latest update killed my monitoring

As you can see, it suddenly stopped using the Frient Power Meter als source and now only shows it as a regular device with no total power monitoring. This way it’s absolutely useless. The new functionality was the reason I bought the frient power meter in the first place.

Please be more specific?
Both FW v12.3.0 & Android Homey app v9.1.0 were released last Jan 14th.

And as always, pull the plug for 10 minutes after an actual fw update.

12.3.1-rc2, yes it has been power reset

Yes this is intentional, as @RonnyW also mentioned, when a plug (with device class socket) is configured as solar panel, Homey inverts the Watt readings. Why? If a portable solar panel is plugged into a socket, the socket will report negative Watt values for generated electricity. To show solar production as a positive value in our interfaces (which makes more sense then negative), we invert the value.

In your case it seems that the NOUS plug reports positive Watt values for generated electricity, which is strange. That is why it is inverted to negative values. I think you should file your issue with the app developer instead. Link to docs: Energy | Homey Apps SDK

Have you checked if the settings of the Frient Electricity Meter Interface are still correct, e.g. cumulative energy measurement, if those settings are provided by the smart meter?
Have you restarted the Frient app?
Have you checked whether the Frient Electricity Meter Interface is still connected to Homey?

Homey Energy is still Beta, which means that problems can still occur. So I suggest to contact the support. Maybe they need a HP23 diagnostic report for further investigations.
Also about this issue:

No Tuesday existing… :thinking:

For me all days are displayed correctly, just as an info.
Homey Pro 2023 (FW v12.3.1 stable, released this morning!)
iOS Homey App version 9.1.0.1649

Not really, when a solar panel is plugged into a socket, the socket reports a positive value.

There are a few plugs that have an option to “invert” the displayed value (to my knowledge, only the EVE Home outdoor plug, which is not yet available in Europe, allows this). However, all solar-self-consumption systems that come with plugs for monitoring production display positive values by default. This is electricity entering the house, just like through the main power line. This is the case for NOUS but also EVE Plug and Ecoflow Smart Plug. You should not invert the Watt values on a plug. ( Eve Energy Outdoor | evehome.com)

What is surprising is that your dashboard only takes positive values into account and not negative ones, which is normal. for my use case, I had to convert the values to positive for the dashboard to display them correctly in the Dashboard.

In parallel, I am monitoring my production on HA. In all cases, HA reports positive values; it is only in the interface that you choose whether it is consumption or production. HA takes care of grouping solar production or consumption, but this does not depend on the source. I’m not sure if I’m being very clear :wink:

The simplest solution would be to offer an option to choose between a negative or positive value when selecting the “solar panel” type.

In France, where solar panels Start to be popular, most of Solar kits are sold with a panel, an inverter and a power-plug to monitor the power production.

Into HP, better but less reliable :wink: but in Beta

Into HA,

I thought it might be a translation error, as I noted this back in December in the Dutch version. However, I see that your Homey is set to English and has the same issue.

It’s not mine screenshot, it’s the screenshot from @Flyto (post #494). And his Homey is set to German like mine. However, my weekdays are displayed correctly. That’s why I also added the information about the versions so that he can compare them with his own.

Thanks for clarifying.

I have a Homey Pro 2023 set to the Dutch language.

I had the issue with the duplicate day label in the weekly view with:

  • All versions of the Homey firmware v12.3.x from the experimental version up the currently installed v12.3.1;
  • All test versions of the Homey app for iOS/iPadOS that included the Energy tab, including the currently installed v9.1.0 build 1662.

In the current week:

  • On iPad Tuesday (Di) is labeled as Monday (Ma)
  • On iPhone Wednesday (Wo) is labeled as Tuesday (Di)

In the prior week:

  • On iPad and iPhone Tuesday (Di) is labeled as Monday (Ma).

In the weeks before the prior week, sometimes the labels are correct, sometimes the same issue as in the current week.

This applies to english also on iPad, two Mondays and no Tuesday.

App version 9.1.0.1662

Hello,
Since this morning’s update (12.3.1) in the energy tab, I no longer have my source of supply (linky meter) whereas before on 12.3.0 I did have it.
It is now detected as an object to be measured and not my general meter.


Hi everyone, I have a problem there. I have successfully integrated my master inverter with battery and my slave (both Sungrow) and also shows it in the app. However, there is the problem that only the values of the master are adopted in the graphics and evaluation. The battery is also missing in the graphics of the river. Is there a way I can get this in here? The device was not excluded from energy.

Is this on roadmap or need to wait for dynamic prices? Because I already have them but can not force homey to use my prices. With a flow to set the price will solve my needs

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A flow card to set the active kWh rate would be a good idea. This would allow for quick adoptation of the 15 minute resolution pricing coming available this spring to most parts of the EU.
Also a flow card would allow to do any other markups for the price. For example grid cost is separate from the energy cost. Even grid cost might be different for high utiliziation hours.

Battery devices are shown only if they have the battery flag in device defiition. That means that an app has to offer single devices for battery and energy and solar.
In your case, it’s one device with all information inside.

Perhaps it’s needed to extend the energy settings with a battery capability to read battery measurement from such a combined device
@Robin ?

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engery beta didt work fine whit frient electricity meter interface2 but from 4 feb stop working ?

same here

I really like the new Homey Energy tab, It would be perfect as a Dashboard, but I find no way to include it in Dashboards, or create a link to it from an existing Dashboard? Surely this must be possible to achieve?

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Thanks for the feedback, we’ll implement a user configurable setting to override the default behavior in these cases.

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Yes, I also would really like to see a widget for it, see my earlier post:

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