Playbook doesn't seem to update energy or power.

[stephenbills]

Hi,

I think your integration is a wonderful addition to Home Assistant. You have done a very through job in adding features that are useful to track energy usage when the device does not support this feature. We don't need to add energy monitors to those devices that draw the same load when ever they are used.
I am experiencing an issue recording the energy usage for my washing machine. I saw in your documentation that this is one of your example. I have the playbook being initiated from an automation which is triggered by an NFC tag. In the trace for the automation it appears to execute cleanly. I turned debugging on and the log seems to show Powercalc processing the csv file that I built. I have one row for every 30 seconds over around 45 minutes. The first couple of lines from the log are below. From the log it appears it is processing all line within the first second? I would be reasonable sure that I have missed something in the configuration. I have configured speakers, tv and lamps through the GUI and all of these work perfectly.

Log
2024-04-22 16:22:34.044 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.strategy.playbook] Activating playbook mixed_load
2024-04-22 16:23:04.054 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.strategy.playbook] playbook mixed_load: Update power 20.00
2024-04-22 16:23:04.060 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.strategy.playbook] playbook mixed_load: Update power 19.00
2024-04-22 16:23:04.066 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.strategy.playbook] playbook mixed_load: Update power 43.00
2024-04-22 16:23:04.071 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.strategy.playbook] playbook mixed_load: Update power 64.00

Automation
alias: Washing Started
description: Wash
trigger:

• platform: event
  event_type: washing_started
  condition: []
  action:
• service: notify.mobile_app_cyrus
  data:
  message: Washing started
• service: powercalc.activate_playbook
  data:
  playbook_id: mixed_load
  target:
  entity_id: sensor.washing_machine_power
  mode: single

Start of mixed_load.csv
30,20
30,19
30,43
30,64
30,11

Configuration in powercalc.yaml
sensors:

• entity_id: sensor.dummy
  name: Washing machine
  playbook:
  playbooks:
  mixed_load: washing_machine/mixed_load.csv
  program2: program2.csv

Thank you for you help,

Steve

[bramstroker]

The first column in CSV is time elapsed since start of playbook.
So when you want to update each 30 seconds it needs to look like this:

30,20
60,19
90,43

And thanks for your kind words

[stephenbills]

Hi Bram,

This is the solution. I am now seeing the power change every 30 seconds and the energy is incrementing.

Thank you for your extremely prompt response.

Really love this integration, it is very clever. You seem to have covered all the scenarios.

Steve