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Essent in Home Assistant
essent
part of Home Assistant since 2025.12
Cloud, polling
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Silver
Essent is an official Home Assistant integration for Energy. 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
- Quality scale
- Silver – Stable in daily use: recovers from connection problems and has an active code owner.
- Installations
- 45
- Categories
- Energy
- Provides
- Sensor
- Maintained by
- @jaapp
- Python packages
essent-dynamic-pricing==0.3.1
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Essent.
- 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.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration