Feature request: Differentiate between power consumed/produced variables

[wminno]

Dutch power meters don't have a 'negative' power variable. Instead they have power_consumed and power_produced variables.
The second you don't draw power, the P1 port of the meter will increase the power_produced counter instead.

So with solar panels, your widget will show for example 14A in use @ 0 watt (as there's 14 amps of power pushed back into the grid)

It'd be great that you could put two variables in your widget:
power_consumed: sensor.1
power_produced: sensor.2

If there's a >0 value in either, it'll show either the power pulled out of the net or pushed back into the grid.
If value ==0 on both, the phase is not used currently.

See attached:

[wminno]

Actually, I worked around this by creating a combined power sensor in the configuration.yaml that takes the net power usage from both sensors on the phases and combines them into a single one:

template:

• sensor:

  • name: "Stroomverbruik netto L1"
    unique_id: "stroom_netto_l1"
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
    state: >
    {{ states ('sensor.phases_power_consumed_phase_l1') | float(0) | round(0)
    - states ('sensor.phases_power_produced_phase_l1') | float(0) | round(0) }}

• sensor:

  • name: "Stroomverbruik netto L2"
    unique_id: "stroom_netto_l2"
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
    state: >
    {{ states ('sensor.phases_power_consumed_phase_l2') | float(0) | round(0)
    - states ('sensor.phases_power_produced_phase_l2') | float(0) | round(0) }}

• sensor:

  • name: "Stroomverbruik netto L3"
    unique_id: "stroom_netto_l3"
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
    state: >
    {{ states ('sensor.phases_power_consumed_phase_l3') | float(0) | round(0)
    - states ('sensor.phases_power_produced_phase_l3') | float(0) | round(0) }}

[Sese-Schneider]

I'm not sure if I should change the implementation of my card here.
I'd rather have Template Support, so you don't have to create template sensors, but do it inline.

What do you think about that?

[wminno]

Having that in the card would be definitely nice. But if it's a major development hurdle like you mentioned, is it -really- worth it. Given you can quite easily do it with template sensors (took me 30 mins of fiddling to get it working). And if you need to do some corner cases, like me adding in-house real time usage based on PV delivery and power meter values, I may fall back to template sensors in the end after all..

Do love this card, thanks for it :)