Ways to use power reporting data from zigbee plugs?

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I have a bunch of Iris zigbee plugs that support power reporting. I can see the usage in the logs, but I'm wondering if there's a way to make use of this data. Are there any apps that graph this data, or do something else useful?

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I use wattage data to 'announce' the laundry is done
Wife loves it!

One of the original reasons to write Message Central

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I use power monitoring to override lighting rules/automation.

For instance, if my TV is on (measured by power from the outlet) I don't want my motion based lights turning off - even if there is no motion (like when watching a long movie). So I use that as a condition in my lighting logic.

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I do this too for the dryer (gas). I created a virtual switch (Dryer Running) that turns on when wattage exceeds 4 watts, and turns off when it goes below. A second of rules apply to the virtual switch, announcing via TTS and push notification when the switch turns off to show the load is done. The virtual switch serves two purposes, one to serve as a visual indicator the dryer is running in a dashboard, and it serves as a restriction in RM to prevent the opposing RM rule from being evaluated keeping the event log clean.

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do you still get overkill of power reports from the outlet? thats what im looking to do better.. i have my plasma TV reporting power on 15 watt changes which is needed to capture TV sleep > Off. The number of reports while the TV is on is wild.

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Couple ideas...

I just put an Iris zigbee plug in my garage ceiling to act as a repeater to a bulb in the front yard. Plugged my garage door opener in, so now have the ability to completely disable my garage door opener in case it's ever needed for anything.

I am wanting to use the power reporting to get door moving status. I currently am using a ported Virtual Garage Door Manager app from ST. It ties a contact sensor, acceleration sensor, and physical switch together to give a virtual garage door state and control ability. I've been having issues with the acceleration sensor not always changing to active when the door is moving, and there's always a delay from when the movement stops to when the device reports inactive again. I'm planning to modify the app and driver to use power reporting from the plug instead of acceleration to determine if the door is moving, I think it will be more accurate.

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I have to ask, what Iris plugs?

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Sold at Lowes in the US.

https://m.lowes.com/pd/Iris-120-Volt-White-Smart-Plug/1000308517

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Thank you for the reply, hoping to find someone using the iL03- smart plug, and getting the energy/power data from it.

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Actually Hubitat does a great job of managing that, however it does too good of a job. I’ve had the clothes dryer turn off while still reporting almost 10 watts (instead of about 1) because it didn’t fall below the threshold for changes. On some devices like the dryer, this was causing reading tone sent every second when it was running. On others readings would be sent one in an entire day,

I configured my own reporting to use minimum and maximum intervals to smooth out the devices that report too frequently when runing and refresh values for those typically with smaller changes every 15 minutes. I wish Hubitat gave the option of interval reporting in the driver instead of threshold reporting.

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Me too.

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I will probably post the SmartPlug driver I'm using soon which gives a little more flexibility.

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Is there a method to have a switch/outlet turn off after 5 mins of <5 watts.

I've seen that it can be done if the watts momentarily drop <5 watts, but not for a few mins. I guess it could be done with virtual switches/private Boolean, but I'm wondering if there is an easier way.

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Use a RM rule
Condition/Rule: Power < 5
Actions when True: Delay 5 minutes (cancel on truth change), turn off

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Please do!

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Hey OP, aren't you asking about graphing the data? Which would be different than just reporting above or below to know when a device turns on/off

I too would like to be able to graph the data

Any way to capture it to Google Sheets or????

Rick

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