Analytics: Add sensor for Compressorstarts

[Oggy512]

I created a sensor which counts the compressor (Verdichter) Starts per day (and other Sensors for month and year as well) in HA (helper as utilitymeter which resets daily).
I think it does make sense to have this number directly available in the ESP and so in the analytics as well, since most of the people aiming for less Starts and this can be a good comparission.

What do you think?

[aLimp86]

I like the idea. Also for the community stats it's more useful then the other one which counts just up. On daily bases it's perfect.

[Schmidtjanroman]

On my integration the compressor starts already available. You can cummulte them with a variety of different charts.

Please note, my heatpump has an Hardware error at the moment with the MFG, so the count is abnormal high.

[Oggy512]

I also have the total number of starts available, but not per day. This value would be interesting for the Analytics part, that’s my point.
However to be really comparable, one would need more metadata (I.e. isolation of the house, heated areas in qm, etc pp), but the number of daily starts could be a beginning 😉

[kr0ner]

I'll add this soon

[kr0ner]

So there is not really much I can do on the ESP itself ... it is better to use HA cards as @Schmidtjanroman did above

chart_type: bar
period: day
type: statistics-graph
entities:
  - sensor.esp32_poe_technik_verdichter_starts
days_to_show: 30
stat_types:
  - change

[kr0ner]

For the grafana dashboard I will implement sth. similar

[Oggy512]

Well, as long as one can compare the own number of daily compressor starts, the logic behind doesn't matter.
I thought a specific sensor directly in the ESP would be the easiest thing, but if adapting the GF dashboard is easier, also good. That archives the same goal :-) (Y)

[kr0ner]

result is here: #261 (comment)
live: https://oneesp32torulethemall.freeddns.org/

@Oggy512 are you happy with the result? Or should I add more? Can we close the issue?

[Oggy512]

Yes, looks good. I guess we can compare the number of starts now way better then bfore :-)

[kr0ner]

Yes :) I really appreciate the input. This really helps a lot shaping the project 👍