Amber Electric

Amber is an Australian electricity retailer that provides access to wholesale electricity prices. Customers monitor the wholesale price and shift their energy usage to cheaper, greener times. This saves them money and supports the shift to a more renewably-powered Australia.

Using the Amber Electric integration集成将 Home Assistant 与您的设备、服务等连接和集成。 [Learn more], customers can go a step further - setting up devices to automatically shift energy usage to cheaper and greener times, based on real-time electricity prices and forecasts

Getting an API Key

To use this integration集成将 Home Assistant 与您的设备、服务等连接和集成。 [Learn more], you will need to generate an API key.

1. Login to your Amber account at: https://app.amber.com.au
2. Click Settings
3. Enable Developer Mode
4. Click Generate API Key
5. Give your API Key a memorable name (say, Home Assistant)
6. Copy the code that is generated. Note: It will disappear after you reload the page, so make sure you make note of it!

配置

要将 Amber Electric integration 添加到您的 Home Assistant 实例中，请使用此 My 按钮：

How the integration works

Prices are split up into three channel types:

• General - This is the channel that records all your power usage from your lights and appliances
• Controlled Load - A special channel that is only activated during off-peak times. Often electric hot water systems are connected to the controlled load channel.
• Feed In - A channel that records exported power from solar panels and batteries.

It exposes the following sensors传感器返回有关事物的信息，例如水箱中的水位。 [Learn more] for each channel type:

• Price - Your current electricity price in $/kWh
• Forecast - The forecasted prices for the next 12 hours
• Descriptor - A description of the price. Useful if you want to create a Amber light that matches the app.

There are two additional sensors:

• Price Spike - A binary sensor that indicates when the current price is over $3/kWh.
• Renewables - The percentage of renewable energy currently in the grid.