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River 3 AC input energy isn't increasing even though input power is matching output power
I just noticed that the stated AC input power is basically 0 in Home Assistant even though AC input power is usually the same as the AC output power.
Looking at the EcoFlow app, it seems like the data from HASS matches, so it is probably a bug in the firmware.
That said, in case they say it is expected behaviour and input is only power entering the battery and output is from battery or passthrough, could we add a calculated sensor for AC input (and total input?) based on power?
Hey,
yeah, I did notice it while I was implementing initial R3 support and I'm fairly positive that that is a bug in firmware - I would expect it to calculate it from AC input power. I created integral helper for AC input power instead.
That said, in case they say it is expected behaviour and input is only power entering the battery and output is from battery or passthrough, could we add a calculated sensor for AC input (and total input?) based on power?
There's a few issues to add calculated energy sensors already where I advised to create integral helpers manually as it only takes a few clicks but I guess I could take some time to implement power integrals with this amount of requests.
Ah, gotcha. I'll keep poking them for a firmware fix (supposedly they've got their senior support techs looking at my ticket). If there is a simple way to implement it outside the integration, that is probably best in case the firmware does get fixed. Maybe a note should be added to the sensor in the readme.md list or the wiki or something? (I skimmed through there quick for something - apologies if it is already there and I missed it)
For the integral helper, you use this with the AC Input Power to calculate the AC Input Energy?
Maybe a note should be added to the sensor in the readme.md list or the wiki or something? (I skimmed through there quick for something - apologies if it is already there and I missed it)
Yeah, there's no info anywhere as of now, I'll add it as a note to readme.
For the integral helper, you use this with the AC Input Power to calculate the AC Input Energy?
Yep, I created integrals for pretty much all of the power sensors, see https://github.com/rabits/ha-ef-ble/issues/44#issuecomment-2971712258