Cumulative energy with ESPHome plug

magicbeing

Your blog says:

Unfortunately, ESP home does not have a cumulative total for energy devices. However, you can replicate this functionality in home assistant using a utility meter helper.

I’m new and just learning but reading about ESPHome it does support this using using the SensorStateClass.TOTAL.

Can you confirm Local Bytes ESPHome plugs now support this?

RebeccaH

Hi @magicbeing

Thanks for stopping by. The link you’ve shared is for Home Assistant, rather than ESPHome. If you have a comparable resource for ESPHome, I’d be interested to hear. 🙂

magicbeing

RebeccaH my apologies, I messed up the link. I’ll try to find the correct one and update. While looking I came across this reply on the HA forum which also appears to contradict the assertion that ESPHome flashed plugs don’t store cumulative energy.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/where-is-the-smart-plug-energy-data-stored-and-how-long-is-this-retained/680518/6?u=magicbeing

I found others as well, but the above is confirmed as correct in the subsequent reply from Adam Allport.

Maybe Adam can clarify whether ESPHome is an issue here, and also whether his ESPHome and Tasmota flashed plugs provide cumulative energy use (and more precise details of possible).