integration: powercalc

[Mariusthvdb]

not sure where this fits, so please forgive me if its not an idea.

seeing the attribute:

integration: powercalc

on all my device_power entities, and not on any other. Is this per design? I would have believed this to be against modern HA requirements, so checked if I hadnt previously set some sort of glob customization myself, but that is not the case ;-)

Sorry for bothering you.
cheers

[bramstroker]

This is an attribute which is added by powercalc, which makes it easy to filter out specifically for the virtual power sensors in templates etc.
I did not read or find any guidelines telling this is not advised. Attributes are meant to be freely used to provide additional state data for the entity. Some entities provide hundreds of attributes.
I don't see a problem. Why is this a issue for you?

[Mariusthvdb]

no, it's not an issue for me at all, in the first place, I was uncertain what created it. It was during testing of the new Hue api I learned that it was considered unwanted to have an integration name itself like that in its attributes. (we had is_hue_group before, which was taken out because of that ) Or so I believe to remember.

Nothing more than that. Ofc, you have your own integration so you can do as you please anyways.

As we speak: I get it from a reliable source that an attribute integration will be added system wide for integration entities...... so there you go ;-) maybe you could add an integration specific attribute type: device_power/device_energy? this will be unique, and make it searchable and uniquely identifiable for you integration....

(like hue_type: room/zone )
now that would be an idea ;-)