Standby power for switch

[wormiedk]

Sometimes a switch might not be a physical switch. E.g. I have a switch to turn of and on the screen of my photoframe but not the pi itself, which means the switch has a standby usage. It would therefore be great to be able to specify a wattage for "off" for switches.

I tried doing it manually as so

- platform: powercalc
  entity_id: switch.picframe_display
  fixed:
    states_power:
      on: 32.5
      off: 2.3

However the power entities are listed as unavailable.

Other switches are defined as:

- platform: powercalc
  entity_id: switch.fotoramme
  fixed:
    power: 4.5

Which is a zigbee connected power socket. However the zigbee switch itself might also have a (small) power usage

[bramstroker]

You can just do:

- platform: powercalc
  entity_id: switch.picframe_display
  fixed:
    power: 32.5
  standby_usage: 2.3

When the switch is turned off standby usage will be shown.

[wormiedk]

Great. I wasn't aware that switch could be combined with standby_usage :)