Sensors, presets & options

Power Insight can create a lot of sensors. The Options flow lets you choose exactly which ones exist — for the whole home and per device type.

Open it from Settings → Devices & services → Power Insight → Configure.

Turning a sensor off never loses data

Any sensors you turn off are disabled in Home Assistant, not deleted, so historical data is preserved. You can re-enable them at any time.

Presets

The quickest way to configure sensors is a preset, which applies the same selection to all your devices instantly:

Preset	What it adds
Minimal	Distribution ratios and financial-return sensors only.
Recommended	Adds distribution power, source-attribution, and running totals for costs, savings and export compensation.
Extended	Also adds real-time cost/savings rate sensors and levelized cost sensors (requires lifetime values per device).
Custom	Configure each device type individually on the following pages.

Each preset builds on the previous one. Recommended is the sweet spot for most installations.

Custom mode: per-scope configuration

Choosing Custom walks you through one page per scope — a device class the selection applies to. Only scopes that apply to you are shown.

Scope	Applies to
Combined	Whole-home aggregate sensors (the hub).
Grid	Your single grid connection (import + export).
PV system	All PV system devices.
Battery	All battery devices.
Consumer	All consumer devices.

Each page groups its options into friendly categories. Which categories a scope shows depends on what its sensors support.

Power sensors

• Power distribution (W) — one sensor per power-flow type (self-consumption, import, export, charging, standby, …) in Watts. These are the fundamental building blocks other sensors are derived from.
• Power distribution ratios (%) — each power flow as a share of total home power (e.g. "65 % of my home load comes from solar").
• Power distribution shares (%) — how a device's own throughput splits (e.g. "60 % of my solar output is self-consumed, 40 % exported"). (grid / PV / battery)
• Charging source shares (%) — how much of a battery's current charging power comes from each configured source. (battery only)
• Power source shares (%) — what fraction of a consumer's power currently comes from each source. (consumer only)

Export compensation

• Export compensation rate (per hour) — a real-time sensor (currency/h) showing how fast you are earning from exported power (current export power × the device's export compensation rate).
• Accumulated export compensation — a running total of all export compensation earned.

Electricity costs

The Cost calculation method select controls whether and how cost sensors are created:

Method	Meaning
None	No cost sensors created.
Standard	Cost using the live grid import price per kWh. Requires a price entity on the grid adapter.
Levelized	Cost using each device's lifetime cost per kWh (LCOE / LCOS). Requires lifetime values per device.
Both	Creates a pair of sensors, one per method.

• Accumulate costs — adds sensors that sum cost over time (running total, stored in the recorder, survives restarts).

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Grid electricity has no levelized cost — the Grid scope only offers the Standard method.

Cost savings

Savings measure the money you avoid spending on grid electricity by self-consuming your own generation (or discharging your battery) instead of importing.

The Savings calculation method select works the same way (None / Standard / Levelized / Both), and Accumulate savings adds running-total sensors. Savings is not offered on the grid scope. See How savings are calculated.

Which scope offers which categories

Category	Combined	Grid	PV	Battery	Consumer
Power distribution (W)	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
Power distribution ratios (%)	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
Power distribution shares (%)	—	✅	✅	✅	—
Charging source shares (%)	—	—	—	✅	—
Power source shares (%)	—	—	—	—	✅
Export compensation rate	—	✅	✅	✅	—
Accumulated export compensation	—	✅	✅	✅	—
Cost method — Standard	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Cost method — Levelized	✅	—	✅	✅	✅
Accumulate costs	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
Savings method — Standard	✅	—	✅	✅	—
Savings method — Levelized	✅	—	✅	✅	—
Accumulate savings	✅	—	✅	✅	—

(Derived from SCOPE_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS in the integration; a ✅ means the category is offered on that scope.)

Diagnostics

The Options init page also has a global toggle:

• Enable debug power entities — exposes the raw internal power values used for calculations as additional sensors. Useful for diagnosing unexpected readings; leave off unless troubleshooting.

Missing-data guard

If you enable an option that a device doesn't have the data for, the options flow stops and tells you which devices need attention:

These devices are missing data required by your selection: … Open each device's Reconfigure page to supply the missing values (for example, an electricity price entity for cost sensors, or lifetime production and cost for levelized sensors), then save the options again.

Fix the devices (see Configuration) and save the options again.