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Discovery

During startup, Powercalc will scan your Home Assistant installation for entities and devices that match the library profiles. Only entities which have a device attached will be considered for discovery. Device information can be viewed at the top left corner of the device page in the Home Assistant UI, or in config/.storage/core.device_registry.

Each device in HA has the following properties:

  • manufacturer
  • model
  • model_id (optional)

This information is tried to match again the built-in library and your custom model directory. When a match in custom models is found, the built-in library loading is skipped.

starting with the manufacturer. Both manufacturer name and aliases are matched. If a match is found, the model id is matched. Both the directory_name (model id) and additional aliases (from model.json) are matched.

You can enable debug logging to debug the matching process.

Excluding device types

You can exclude devices from being discovered by Powercalc by using the exclude_device_types option in the configuration. For example, to exclude power meters and smart switches, when you are not interested in keeping track of self-consumption of these devices:

powercalc:
  exclude_device_types:
    - power_meter
    - smart_switch

You can also use the GUI for this global configuration, see Global Configuration.