Monitor Your Smart Homes Energy Usage with Home Assistant!

Monitor Your Smart Homes Energy Usage with Home Assistant!

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In todays video we are taking at a brand new feature of Home Assistant 2021.8, Home Assistant Energy Management. This new features allows you to quickly and easily monitor your entire smart homes power consumption including how much energy you are using from the grid, solar and even returning to the grid, as well as tracking prices. Home Assistant Energy Management is really simple to get up and running in just a matter of minutes! We also briefly look at SlimmeLezer and Home Assistant Glow which are OpenSource projects based on ESPHome to help build your own DIY Smart Meter.

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SlimmeLezer: https://www.slimmelezer.nl/
Home Assistant Glow: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow


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0:00 - What is Home Assistant Energy Management
1:22 - Skillshare
2:22 - Things you will need
2:59 - SlimmeLezer & Home Assistant Glow
3:28 - Configuration
4:05 - How to configure sensors for energy monitoring
5:15 - Back to configuration
6:47 - Dashboard overview
8:14 - How to change sources

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