WLED

Supported domains: light

You can use the manual WLED strategy for light strips which are controlled by WLED. WLED calculates estimated current based on brightness levels and the microcontroller (ESP) used. Powercalc asks to input the voltage on which the lightstrip is running and optionally a power factor. Based on these factors, the wattage is calculated.

Important

The brightness limiter must be turned on in WLED for this to work! Otherwise WLED will not provide an estimated current.

You can setup sensors both with YAML or GUI. When you use the GUI, select the Virtual power (manual) sensor type, and wled in the "Calculation strategy" dropdown. If you have multiple segments, select any of them as the source entity; selecting a helper group with all segments will cause a failure to find the current sensor, even if entity IDs match perfectly.

Configuration options

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Description
voltage	float	Required		Voltage for the lightstrip
power_factor	float	Optional	0.9	Power factor, between 0.1 and 1.0

Example

powercalc:
  sensors:
    - entity_id: light.wled_lightstrip
      wled:
        voltage: 5