Hi,
I’m new here. I have a similar problem with reading and understanding my power consumption values. I have installed the SmartThings integration in Home Assistant and want to display the power consumption of my fridge on my dashboard. The “power” entity that the integration is providing gives me an abnormally high value. Sometimes this value is 435W, sometimes it shows 1500W, and on rare occasions, a peak of 3500W is displayed.
So, I know that the power value is measured periodically, roughly every 15 minutes.
This is written here in the official documentation and also visible as the time between the “start” and “end” values from the json picture which can be seen a little further down:
But how is this power value displayed in the first place? Is there a measurement every minute about the current wattage and are all values summed up together?
My fridge is only exposing the powerConsumptionReport. No powerMeter or any other value.
Just for comparison, I plugged in a Zigbee smart plug which can also measure power consumption and updates every few seconds if a change in power is detected and shows significantly lower values.
If my fridge were really drawing 3500W of power, shouldn’t the fuse trip or get burned?
So… how is the power value calculated?
Best regards.