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Energy Meter (Watts) Support

I've been asked if I'd support energy monitors or other Eve devices.

In answer - I don't plan to as there's a simple workaround that does enough for my purposes -- what I do is that I set up a "LightSensor" device and set its "ref" value to the reference of the HomeSeer "volts" or "watts" device. On the iOS Home app, it will then give you the "volts" or "watts" value from Homeseer.

By way of example, if you have a Heater device with a Watts sensor with the reference number 227, then, to add that, you would put the following entry into the "accessories" section of your config.json.

{"type":"LightSensor", "name":"Heater Watts", "ref":227}

The one limitation is that this will have the designation "lux" instead of "watts", but I find I can avoid confusion on this by simply giving the iOS Home device a name that includes the word "watts" as was shown with "Heater Watts."

If Apple adds a Watts type to the "official" Homekit Accessory Protocol, I may revisit this.