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Amber Electric in Home Assistant
amberelectric
part of Home Assistant since 2021.10
Cloud, polling
Set up in the user interface
Amber Electric is an official Home Assistant integration for Energy and Sensor. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 1,356 (0.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @madpilot
- Python packages
amberelectric==2.0.12
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Amber Electric.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Amber Light
- Automation SolarEdge Export Limit during negative feed in
Community versions in HACS
These extensions use the same domain. Installed through HACS, one of them takes the place of the official integration – usually to bring a feature or a fix sooner. Remove it again once Home Assistant has caught up.
- HACS Amber Electric – Home Assistant Component to pull the latest energy prices from Amber Electric
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration