Monitor Your Smart Homes Energy Usage with Home Assistant!

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/everythingsmarthome08211 In todays video we are taking at a brand new feature of Home Assistant 2021.8, Home Assistant Energy Management. This new features allows you to quickly and easily monitor your entire smart homes power consumption including how much energy you are using from the grid, solar and even returning to the grid, as well as tracking prices. Home Assistant Energy Management is really simple to get up and running in just a matter of minutes! We also briefly look at SlimmeLezer and Home Assistant Glow which are OpenSource projects based on ESPHome to help build your own DIY Smart Meter. If you'd like to support me and future projects: Patreon:   / everythingsmarthome   Hardware to monitor energy: Shelly EM: https://amzn.to/3xAhHds SlimmeLezer: https://www.slimmelezer.nl/ Home Assistant Glow: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home... Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/EverySma... Written Article: https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk EVERYWHERE YOU CAN FIND ME: Everything Smart Home Community Discord: https://discord.everythingsmarthome.c... Twitter:   / everysmarthome   (@EverySmartHome) Instagram:   / everythingsmarthome   Facebook:   / everythingsmarthomeofficial   #homeassistant #smarthome ________________________ Some of the links above are affiliate links, where I earn a small commission if you click on the link and purchase an item. You are not obligated to do so, but it does help fund these videos in hopes of bringing value to you! 0:00 - What is Home Assistant Energy Management 1:22 - Skillshare 2:22 - Things you will need 2:59 - SlimmeLezer & Home Assistant Glow 3:28 - Configuration 4:05 - How to configure sensors for energy monitoring 5:15 - Back to configuration 6:47 - Dashboard overview 8:14 - How to change sources