A colleague asked me about some way to monitor in an app, with statistics on how much time his furnace is on and, honestly, I was surprised myself that I didn't have a simple solution. While I have these statuses in Home Assistant and 2 lines in the configuration file takes care of it, if I'm looking for something that doesn't require setting up a server and the device will send the status changes to the cloud, something ala Tuya and there you can do a daily, monthly, yearly view. It's just that all these switches with Wi-Fi show the state but don't count the time they've been in a given state, this is missing from the apps.
At first I thought it would be simple and there's a bunch of it, but when I started figuring out what you can see there in the apps, it's only energy that can be read that way.
The Zamel in Supla has a more customisable dashboard and I thought a pulse counter could do it, but that would count the number of on and off, not the overall run time.
Also this one may have caught your eye. The simple run time counters don't have Wi-Fi and apps, well and you need a potential-free input, because the cooker there just short circuits the contact on the output as it starts up.
At first I thought it would be simple and there's a bunch of it, but when I started figuring out what you can see there in the apps, it's only energy that can be read that way.
The Zamel in Supla has a more customisable dashboard and I thought a pulse counter could do it, but that would count the number of on and off, not the overall run time.
Also this one may have caught your eye. The simple run time counters don't have Wi-Fi and apps, well and you need a potential-free input, because the cooker there just short circuits the contact on the output as it starts up.
