Smartthings energy Monitor - attributes?

Questions
#1

Hi…

I have a Bulb Energy Smartmeter (in the UK) for my electricity and gas supply. the Smartmeter is integrated with SmartThings and it appears as a device in the Smartthings App and I have access to a ton of graphs, variables and stats.

However, when I integrate the Smartthings device into THR, all I get access to is a single capability for EnergyMeter. This just gives me one variable… the total meter reading (since forever)… I can’t get access to a variable for Current Usage, This Weeks Usage, and so on… even though these variables are available in the Smartthings App.

So, are there other attributes I can access that allow me to get more information other than the all-time meter reading ?

thanks

#2

You can access attributes the Home Remote has not automatically included by adding them as attributes to the Attributes property. It is case-sensitive. The raw attributes you wish to see likely start with a lowercase character. You’ll need to keep that character lowercase when adding it to the Attributes property in Home Remote.

#3

thanks @bill … I tried a few “guesses” at what the attributes might be (such as “todayUsage”, and “current”, and “energyNow” and lots of others, but none of them worked… how can I find out what attributes might be hidden there in the THR code?

thanks

#4

You should be able to find the attributes in the SmartThings IDE.

#5

Hi… so I am not getting anywhere fast on this, and i think it might be my total lack of knowledge on SmartThings.

It seems that in my Smartthings app I have two devices - a washing machine (you can ignore that), and a Bulb Energy Meter. Now, in the App, the Bulb Energy Meter ONLY has one variable in the ST App… and thats the TOTAL METER READING. And this is also the variable that gets pulled into the THR Capability… all good.

BUT… the SmartThings App, ALSO has another section (not another device), called the Smart Things Energy Control. In this section (under “More Services”, its got every variable you could ever wish for… real time usage, tariff info, per week, per month and so on, and so on… THIS is the info I want to pull into THR, but when I sync the ST account in THR, only the two devices get pulled in.

So something in Smarthings App is able to do more than just sit there as a device, and thats what we want to pull into THR

Make sense to anyone ?
thanks

#6

Ok, I think I worked it out… its not being as clever as I gave it credit… I think that the SmartThings energy monitoring device only knows the current meter reading (hence why thats what it is sharing with THR… I think Smartthings then has a cloud service that constantly reads the meter reading and provides all of the rich data (by databasing the meter readings against timestamps)… and it seems that this cloud database is not part of the API.

So… it looks like I will have to do my own data warehousing to be able to add richness to the THR.