# Virtual Devices energy consumption **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [November 19, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993 "2019-11-19T21:01:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alcor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alcor](https://community.homey.app/u/Alcor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/1 "2019-11-19T21:01:08Z")
It seems as if power ‘measurement’ in virtual devices is broken since last update. Virtual devices do not show the energy consumption I configured. Anyone else noticed this? ---
**Author:** ![Igy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/igy/32/22144_2.png) [@Igy](https://community.homey.app/u/Igy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/2 "2019-11-19T22:55:52Z")
Works fine in my case. ---
**Author:** ![Kalle\_Kronbeck](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kalle_kronbeck/32/13158_2.png) [@Kalle\_Kronbeck](https://community.homey.app/u/Kalle_Kronbeck)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/3 "2019-11-20T14:21:18Z")
I wolud like to turn off energy consumption for a Virtual device. It s a device that gets my house energy consumption. Right now it just adds that device ro all my other consumptions = high consumption! ---
**Author:** ![Alcor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alcor](https://community.homey.app/u/Alcor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/4 "2019-11-20T19:36:42Z")
I don’t understand what is wrong. All my devices that do not have energy measurement capabilities and for which I manually set energy consumption values show 0w in Homey energy tab. It is regardless of the device on which the Homey app runs. I have no idea how to solve this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Alcor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alcor](https://community.homey.app/u/Alcor)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/5 "2019-11-21T19:00:40Z")
Update on this issue: all virtual devices report 0 w energy consumption, regardless of whether there are on or off. See screenshots. Any help is greatly appreciated! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/9/599cdba5e1cd292e0a9c5f530b699c8044a86818.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/f/4f4dbad3b45d2d9883b6155cbc4401bb8093b4d0.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/2/226dab4c1a4fb7a9d280c2a1a0159e4affd85299.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Osorkon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/osorkon/32/43026_2.png) [@Osorkon](https://community.homey.app/u/Osorkon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/6 "2019-11-21T19:17:37Z")
Build in VD Works (Homey v3.1.0) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/2/02fbbd0e504b767ca16dace55e53561d4838468a.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/f/af695b1af6d2be5d5d0382db3dd97fea5cff5adb.jpeg) But the VD App 0.8.8 is not working?! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/6/e6191dc473b1ac8fd55ed20ad3ef9132f8ffb8eb.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/7/d7ba4bc44bca7bd5987a21757ea9e998cbf751d3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Alcor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alcor](https://community.homey.app/u/Alcor)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/7 "2019-11-21T20:56:44Z")
That’s it! It is a bug in the VD app! If I use the build in virtual devices, all is good. Thanks for this insight. ---
**Author:** ![Bart\_van\_der\_Poel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bart_van_der_poel/32/9528_2.png) [@Bart\_van\_der\_Poel](https://community.homey.app/u/Bart_van_der_Poel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/8 "2019-11-23T10:30:02Z")
I don’t get it… ---
**Author:** ![Erik\_Z1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erik_z1/32/13319_2.png) [@Erik\_Z1](https://community.homey.app/u/Erik_Z1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/9 "2020-02-01T14:35:23Z")
Measuring energy doesn’t work for me either. Not in the built-in virtual devices and not in the virtual devices app. Anyone have an idea how you can solve this? ---
**Author:** ![crawler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/crawler/32/30029_2.png) [@crawler](https://community.homey.app/u/crawler)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/virtual-devices-energy-consumption/20993/10 "2021-02-24T08:57:54Z")
You can use the “meter\_power” to set the consumption in VD. It is just a placeholder, I calculate the consumption using a cumulative variable.