Turning smartplugs on/off depending on current electricity consumption
Project description
smartplug-energy-controller
A microservice to turn a smartplug on/off depending on current electricity consumption. The intention of this service is to use all energy you produced, e.g with a balcony power plant, by e.g. loading a portable battery. This can be achieved by plug in your battery into a smartplug. The smartplug is turned on/off dynamically, depending on your current electricity consumption.
The service is especially useful when your electricity meter supports OBIS 1.8.x only (no OBIS 2.8.x). In such a scenario you can give this service your current electricity meter value (obtained watt from provider) and your current watt production (e.g. from a balcony power plant) and it calculates a reasonable point when to turn your smartplugs on/off.
Installation
The python package can be installed from PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/smartplug-energy-controller/)
- Navigate to the folder where the virtual environment shall be created (e.g. your home dir):
cd ~
- Create virtual environment (this will create a new folder smart_meter_py_env):
python3 -m venv smart_meter_py_env
- Activate the virtual environment
source smart_meter_py_env/bin/activate
- Upgrade pip and setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
- Install smartplug-energy-controller
pip install smartplug-energy-controller
- Provide environment variables (e.g. in your ~/.profile).
CONFIG_PATH=full/path/to/config.yml
Configuration
Everything is configured in the respective config.yml file. See https://github.com/die-bauerei/smartplug-energy-controller/blob/main/tests/data/config.example.yml
Autostart after reboot and on failure
Create a systemd service by opening the file /etc/systemd/system/smartplug_energy_controller.service and copy paste the following contents. Replace User/Group/ExecStart accordingly.
[Unit]
Description=smartplug_energy_controller
Documentation=https://github.com/die-bauerei/smartplug-energy-controller
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
UMask=002
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
Environment="CONFIG_PATH=full/path/to/config.yml"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash -lc "source /home/ubuntu/smart_meter_py_env/bin/activate && uvicorn --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 smartplug_energy_controller.app:app > /dev/null"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now execute the following commands to enable autostart:
sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable smartplug_energy_controller.service
It is now possible to start, stop, restart and check the status of smartplug-energy-controller with:
sudo systemctl start smartplug_energy_controller.service
sudo systemctl stop smartplug_energy_controller.service
sudo systemctl restart smartplug_energy_controller.service
sudo systemctl status smartplug_energy_controller.service
Usage of Tapo Smart Plugs
The service can control Tapo Smart Plugs via the plugp100 library (https://pypi.org/project/plugp100/). Have a look at the example config at https://github.com/die-bauerei/smartplug-energy-controller/blob/main/tests/data/config.example
Usage in conjunction with openHAB
To use this service you need to get the consumption values from your smart-meter. There are of course lots of different ways to achieve this. A possible setup could include:
- Read data from your smart-meter and push them to openHAB:
- Let openHAB send the requests to this service.
This project includes a service that performs this requests by using HABApp (https://github.com/spacemanspiff2007/HABApp) You can start habapp by e.g.
HABAPP_CONFIG_FOLDER=$(source /home/ubuntu/smart_meter_py_env/bin/activate && pip show smartplug_energy_controller | grep Location | sed "s/Location: //")/oh_to_smartplug_energy_controller
source /home/ubuntu/smart_meter_py_env/bin/activate && habapp --config $HABAPP_CONFIG_FOLDER
NOTE: Make sure to first start smartplug_energy_controller as this will setup the configuration for HABApp.
The service expects the smartplug_energy_controller API on http://localhost:8000
Create a systemd service /etc/systemd/system/oh_to_smartplug_energy_controller.service to setup autostart for this service as well:
[Unit]
Description=Post smart meter values from openHAB to smartplug-energy-controller
Documentation=https://github.com/die-bauerei/smartplug-energy-controller
After=smartplug_energy_controller.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
UMask=002
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
#Provide environment variable (e.g. in your ~/.profile). Assignment example see above
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash -lc "source /home/ubuntu/smart_meter_py_env/bin/activate && habapp -c $HABAPP_CONFIG_FOLDER"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
By setting up a connection to your openHAB instance you can additionally use any Smart Plug you have configured inside your openHAB instance. Have a look at the example config at https://github.com/die-bauerei/smartplug-energy-controller/blob/main/tests/data/config.example
Troubleshooting
- Have a look at the log-file you have given in your config.yml
- Have a look at the HABApp log-file located in $HABAPP_CONFIG_FOLDER/log/HABApp.log
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