Sense
Integrate your Sense
There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:
- Binary sensor
- Sensor
Configuration
To add the Sense integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
Sense can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.
If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Add Integration button. -
From the list, select Sense.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
Sensors
Sensors are added for both usage and production:
- Active sensors: Updated every 60 seconds.
- Usage: Current active power usage in Watts.
- Production: Current active power production in Watts.
- Trend sensors: Data provided for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales. Updated every 5 minutes.
- Usage: Energy usage in kWh.
- Production: Energy production in kWh.
- To Grid: Energy exported to the grid in kWh.
- From Grid: Energy imported from the grid in kWh.
- Net Production: Measures total solar production against usage.
- Net Production Percentage: Net production as a percentage value.
- Solar Powered Percentage: Percentage of power used directly from solar.
Binary sensors are created for each of the devices detected by your Sense monitor to show their power state.
Sensors are created for each of the devices detected by your Sense monitor to show their power usage in Watts.
The Emulated Kasa integration can be used to expose devices in Home Assistant to the Sense Monitor by emulating TP-Link Kasa Smart Plugs.