Ecobee thermostat

[lbreggi]

Hi!

I'm trying to create a manual sensor for my AC that is controlled by Ecobee Lite. Is there a way that I could create the sensor? thanks!

[spiegeljb]

https://homeassistant-powercalc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sensor-types/daily-energy.html

Check out this link. Assuming you know the watts consumed by the Ecobee Lite you could just do something like this in your configuration.yaml

powercalc:
sensors:
- name: IP camera upstairs
daily_fixed_energy:
value: 0.05

[lbreggi]

Thanks! It was working great but I just replaced my old AC for a new one with 2 stage cooling.
I tried to use the attribute “ equipment_running:” from Ecobee but it’s not working; the only way to make it work is when I set “ hvac_action” attribute, but this attribute just report “cooling” without the stage. Any insights? Thanks,

[bramstroker]

Please elaborate about your configuration.
How did you setup the powercalc sensor?

And how does your state and attributes look (from developer tools)

[lbreggi]

Thanks for your reply!

Let me paste here how I've set the sensor and the attributes that I have:

in the attributes, line 29 (equipment_running: compCool1,fan). when my AC is running the 2 stage for cooling, I can see the "equipment_running: compCool2", but unfortunatelly I could not set in a way that I could make it to count for the sensor (sensor remains 0).

[lbreggi]

I would like to see If I can measure the 2 diferent stages of my AC. thank you for all your help!

[bramstroker]

Did you try:

equipment_running|compCool1,fan: 3000
equipment_running|compCool2: 2000

on states power?

[lbreggi]

checking...

[lbreggi]

thanks! It worked in this way:

equipment_running|compCool1,fan: 3000
equipment_running|compCool2,fan: 4000
equipment_running|compCool1: 3000
equipment_running|compCool2: 4000