Shelly EM/3EM Implementation

Hi Aaron,
I've been meaning to create a few dashboards in Grafana with energy usage per day/week/month/year. Having looked at this for a bit tonight I think it would be beneficial to have the Total Energy data brought in to Indigo -

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"shellies/shellyem-<deviceid>/emeter/<i>/total

This is the total energy in Wh (accumulated in device's non-volatile memory). The data is stored in the device and will be included in the next value returned after if it went offline for a period. This would allow for more accurate comparison with the utility bill and in future when I get a smart meter. An example of the Shelly going offline could be a restart of my Mac Mini.
Colly

I will have to take a look at this, but I have some logic built in to have the Indigo energy value survive a device restart. At least, that is what is supposed to happen, but I do not rely on this feature myself.

Would you like the value from this topic represented as an additional device state, say "total-energy"?

Would you like the value from this topic represented as an additional device state, say "total-energy"?

Yes this would be perfect. As I understand it this is also the most accurate way to calculate energy usage over a given period, subtracting starting total from ending total.

Would you like the value from this topic represented as an additional device state, say "total-energy"?

Yes this would be perfect. As I understand it this is also the most accurate way to calculate energy usage over a given period, subtracting starting total from ending total.

Ok great, I can also pull in the value from this topic:

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shellies/shellyem-<deviceid>/emeter/<i>/total_returned

I don't think I will touch the native Indigo energy stuff because not all Shelly devices that report energy have these "total" topics and the Indigo energy code is shared among a lot of devices.

Once the value is available I can then take it into the Grafana plugin and do whatever I want after that.

Once the value is available I can then take it into the Grafana plugin and do whatever I want after that.

Take a look at 0.7.1 and let me know if everything looks good (I don't have any EM devices to validate with).

Just see 0.7.0 there at the minute..

Just see 0.7.0 there at the minute..

That link should take you to the 0.7.1 branch since I don't have a release created for it yet.

That link should take you to the 0.7.1 branch since I don't have a release created for it yet.

And so it does! Updated and can see total energy.
That's what I call a quick turnaround. Many thanks.

That link should take you to the 0.7.1 branch since I don't have a release created for it yet.

And so it does! Updated and can see total energy.
That's what I call a quick turnaround. Many thanks.

You're welcome! I'm glad the Shelly supplied the data you needed!