Energy monitoring in the life section of the smartthings app i take it this is just for samsung appliances as its not picking up any energy monitoring smart plugs i have are am i missing something.
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Your not missing anything, the energy app does not pick up any smart plugs, smartthings branded or not, it also does not read Samsung Tvs, pretty sure it only shows some white goods, some Ac units and a hit and miss at in home smart meters
It also does not allow for standing charges if used in specific countries or Gas
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which renders the app useless.
there is whole tab that nobody really uses as Samsung is publishing half-baked apps there that don’t work even with Samsung appliances in a given county
however the app itself is so slow
it’s easier to use any 3rd party assistant. So I don’t even bother to open it most of the time.
Yup, pretty much useless, we have an ST washing machine that shows its energy useage, i do not believe for a second its accurate
I also have my electric readings in it but without standing charges the accuracy is way off
So yeah… its more of a PR app than a useful addition
My frig shows up…
More energy monitoring plugs may be being added to the Life Energy App now, since summer 2023. In the UK I only saw the Samsung Robot Vacuum. The newer Eve Energy Matter plug was found. But always reports zero usage. The Tapo P110M (Matter) is the first UK energy monitoring plug I have found to report and provide graphs in the Energy App. It would be good to have an indication from SmartThings or their partner as to which devices they believe should work with the Energy app.
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I got some P110M plugs, they are showing in the energy app but not actually getting any data so usage is showing zero… what did you do to get yours working?
Hi Nick, kWh is quite a big unit unless you are boiling kettles continuously, so it might just take a while to accumulate the stats. For energy monitoring I am still connecting the P110M to SmartThings through the Tapo cloud. So registering an account with Tapo through the Tapo Android app. You should be able to see the usage in the Tapo app as well. In the Life Energy App in SmartThings you can get to the daily, weekly, monthly usage history by clicking on the device. You can still use the device in matter mode for other things such as a direct matter connection to Alexa or Google but I don’t think matter has advanced enough to pass usage stats yet, just control of switching on and off to a schedule.
It’s really odd, I am getting data on the Tapo app just doesn’t seem to be going through to SmartThings 
At the time of this posting, matter does not support energy reporting yet, so any device connected via matter will not show energy history in the SmartThings app under the “energy“ service. It may have it in its own app, which is useful for review, but can’t trigger routines.
There are several Tapo plugs that work with smartthings. At least one of the ones not using matter for the integration will show up on the energy dashboard and will report energy use. But the ones using matter will not at this time because they can’t – – matter doesn’t transmit that information.
Fair enough, I figured it wouldn’t work through matter. But the p110m shows under Energy usage in the SmartThings energy app but no data is coming through… it’s meant to but clearly I’ve done something wrong. This is when I import the plug via Tapo, not via matter.
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it started working… no idea how or why… maybe there was an issue with tplink tapo service?
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Something must have changed. My configuration is displaying energy usage on some (not yet all) of my TPLink Tapo smartplugs. If I work out how to get the others on I’ll let you know
But not all devices, TV (Samsung) and not the highest usage device (oven) dont work Grrrr
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