Grouping entities with group or area.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your job, it’s really impressive 😃

It could be a good idear to group entities with group or area (today, le HUE intégration create an area with all lights in philips HUE group).

sensor:
  - platform: powercalc
    create_group: All hallway lights
    target : 
        group: group.allway_lights

or

sensor:
  - platform: powercalc
    create_group: All hallway lights
    target : 
        area: Hallway lights

In my case, I already group my room’s lights with HA group integration. I’m fully use Philips HUE light.

Thanks for your time. Juicy

[bramstroker]

I have good news. Managed to add support for groups and light groups for the include functionality. Has been merged into master. Will be in release v0.14

[bramstroker]

Thanks for the release ! 😄 Very happy to test it !

Thanks for testing!

1/ I’ve got an error with the first area : No area with id 'Jardin' found in your HA instance.

I have added support to also specify an area name, not only an ID. So this error should be resolved now.

2/ The second one with the id works but it takes all domains entities like input_select or other and return an error : input_select.lumieres_jardin: Cannot autodiscover model, manufacturer or model unknown from device registry

I have changed the code to only consider lights.

3/ When the integration trying to autodiscover, Philips Hue integration was not ready yet and return the same previous error, then it skip the entity and return en error for the group : Could not create group Lumières de la véranda, no entities resolved

This is not something I can fix. Because the Hue integration was not loaded correctly (or in time), powercalc has no way to know the manufacturer / model for the given entities. So ultimately no entities from the area could be discovered, and the area can therefore not be setup (because there are no entities). So you need to have a look into your issues with the Hue API. Maybe it’s network related? Reset the bridge? etc.

4/ The anchor on the readme related to Area include was wrong : #include-are-entities instead of #include-area-entities.

Fixed

5/ There is a duplicate example on the readme related to Include area entities

Fixed