I recently installed the Energy Alerts and Profiling and thought it would be a nice way to track my power usage.
It rapidly became obvious to me that it completely ignores the ‘Energy used’ setting on thermostats, despite the ‘explain this’ link indicating that:
“For thermostats, the “Watts” field consists of 3 numbers separated by commas. The default is 1500,1500,300. The first number is how many watts are used when the thermostat is in ‘heat’ mode; the second is how many watts are used when the thermostat is in ‘cool’ mode; and the third number is for the ‘fan only’ mode.”
I realise this might not be the ‘Watts’ field, but it seems to make sense that the figures should be fed into the ‘Energy used’ box in that way, but the Energy Alerts and Profiling plugin doesn’t use that field at all for thermostats, so it doesn’t matter if you use that format or put just a regular value in.
Given that the air conditioning is probably the most demanding user of electricity it would make sense, in my view, to show the power use in the graphs.
I have modified I_EnergyProfiler1.xml on my Vera’s to ensure that they do get an entry for the thermostats. It isn’t quite perfect in that it currently only spots Cooling/Heating and doesn’t deal with Continuous fan, but that should be fixable when I get time.
I just wondered if anybody is interested in this improvement or whether there is somewhere that I should be sending code improvements to?