smart-home-energy-saver

What This Skill Does

The smart-home-energy-saver skill acts as a dedicated analyst for your Home Assistant ecosystem. Its primary function is to ingest energy consumption data and device configuration to identify inefficiencies, such as high-draw appliances running during peak tariff windows. Unlike other automation tools that push commands to your smart home hardware, this skill operates exclusively in a read-only environment. It processes your existing data streams to generate comprehensive optimization reports and provides ready-to-use YAML snippets for Home Assistant automations. This approach allows you to review, edit, and apply energy-saving strategies manually, ensuring that you maintain complete oversight and control over your living environment while achieving your sustainability goals.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/codedao12/smart-home-energy-saver

Ensure that you have the appropriate read-only tokens for your Home Assistant instance configured within your environment variables before invoking the skill. Refer to references/auth.md for specific formatting requirements regarding these credentials.

Use Cases

• Peak Demand Management: Analyzing which household devices contribute most to peak-load electricity costs and creating schedules to shift their usage.
• Automation Blueprinting: Generating standard Home Assistant YAML code for climate control, water heating schedules, or lighting optimization based on your comfort constraints.
• Energy Reporting: Creating summaries of historical energy consumption trends to help users understand their environmental footprint.
• Safety-First Optimization: Providing recommendations for energy efficiency that explicitly account for medical devices or critical infrastructure that must remain unaffected.

Example Prompts

1. "Analyze my last month of energy usage in Home Assistant and identify the top three appliances I should optimize to lower my electricity bill."
2. "I have a heat pump water heater and a variable tariff plan. Please draft a Home Assistant automation YAML that heats the water only during off-peak hours while ensuring the temperature never drops below 40 degrees."
3. "My living room smart plugs are using a lot of standby power. Can you suggest an automation plan to kill power to my entertainment center between 1 AM and 6 AM?"

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the utility of this skill, ensure your Home Assistant energy dashboard is correctly configured with current utility rates. Always review the generated YAML in a sandbox environment before merging it into your production configuration. Note that this skill cannot "learn" through interaction; it provides static recommendations based on the data provided at the moment of the prompt. It will never request or execute write permissions, making it a safe choice for those who are cautious about external access to their home automation systems. If you notice unrealistic savings estimates, verify that your device energy entities are providing accurate, real-time reporting.