{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides Python access to the Sense Energy Monitor API for retrieving real-time and trend energy data, plus local device emulation to report custom power usage to Sense monitors.","skillfed_tags":["home-automation","energy-monitoring","iot"],"use_cases":["Pull real-time power consumption from a Sense monitor into Home Assistant or another home automation platform","Log historical energy usage and solar production data to a database for analysis and reporting","Emulate smart plugs to report custom power readings (e.g., from non-standard devices) back to Sense","Build dashboards or alerts based on real-time active power and device-level consumption","Integrate Sense data into third-party energy analytics or billing tools"],"what_it_does":"sense_energy is a Python client for the unofficial Sense Energy Monitor API. It lets you pull real-time power readings, trend data, and individual device information from a Sense home energy monitor programmatically. The package is commonly used to integrate Sense data into home automation platforms like Home Assistant, SmartThings, and ActiveTiles.\n\nBeyond API access, sense_energy also includes a SenseLink class that emulates TP-Link Kasa HS110 smart plugs, allowing you to report custom power usage back to your Sense monitor. This is useful for monitoring non-standard devices or testing. The package depends on async libraries (aiohttp, websockets), HTTP clients (requests, websocket-client), and serialization tools (orjson, msgpack, ciso8601) to handle real-time data efficiently.","worth_installing":"Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, installs cleanly, and is widely used for Sense monitor integration. Install it if you need programmatic access to Sense energy data or want to emulate devices for the Sense monitor. The main caveat is that it relies on an unofficial API, so changes to Sense's backend could break functionality without warning."},"id":"sense-energy","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/sense-energy","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/sense-energy.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/sense-energy/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"sense-energy","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"API for the Sense Energy Monitor"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":76654,"position":14604,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.14.3"}