Electricity waste caused by integration

[maciekmisko]

Hi,
I started a small project to find out what uses electricity in my house and here is the finding. My Audio Pro Addon C10 pair is being turned on by the integration every minute or so. Instead of using ~1.5Watt of power per speaker when idle they always consume ~12W per speaker.

This means that a pair of speakers consumes 21W more when idle. Sounds like not much, but this piles up. In a year that's a waste of ~180kWh.

Did anyone have similar problem? Any solutions?

Regards
Maciej

[nagyrobi]

The integration has to periodically poll the speaker to determine it's correct status. That's by design of Home Assistant and of course the API of the Linkplay moodule.

If the module would be smarter, for example able to push states by itself to MQTT while idle, it would of course be better.

The amps in the speaker are likely poorly designed, an amplifier should only draw a significant amount of power only when it's actually playing sound (Class D).
Search for audio amplifier classes to learn more about this.