[madaxe_again]

Agreed.

I live off grid, so energy monitoring is a big deal for me. HA is fine for “at a glance”, but if I want any kind of detail, I use grafana. I actually have my old openhab instance still running purely as I can’t be faffed setting up all the piping from MQTT into influx again.

It’s also possible to integrate the usage over time using a dynamic time window to get Wh figures from wattage, which is enormously useful for me, and is more accurate than the figures HA gives in their power system.

HA is dead useful for getting alerts when the laundry finishes, though - dumb machine, smart plug, look for a sudden drop in power. Also does all our climate control.

So different tools for different jobs.