Essential Load Entities

[Marow]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Currently, you need can set a few essential load entities.

Expected behaviour

The new idea:

You can set much more essential loads but only the loads which needs Power will be showed in the card.
I have a lot of sockets which checks the power and usage of different devices. But the most time, they are running on 0 or under 5 Watts.

The Idea is, that you can set a bunch of entities and the card will only show the cards with the highest two usages or something.
So probably the essential load 5 and 6 can be used also as a "bunch of entities" and in the card it shows the highest usage right now.

Mode

full

Context / Reason

Right now, i have a lot of entities that can be showed up, but a lot of them are around 0-5 Watts (Standby).

But sometimes, e.g. when I start the washing machine, I see a high energy demand but can't see on the card which appliance needs a lot. I then have to look at other cards to see which socket is currently drawing a lot of power, for example.

Since the space with the Essential Loads is limited, you could perhaps change 5 & 6 to "variable" so that the card itself decides which entities are currently displayed there and then always see who the big consumer of electricity is at the moment.

Essential Load 1-4 can remain fixed, for example, for heating, wallbox or known large consumers, but otherwise you don't get many small ones displayed, even if they sometimes draw a lot of electricity.

[slipx06]

I think it would be better to create a template sensor for that logic which display the largest consumer and then use that as the entity for the card. Maybe try that first