I was finally getting ready to bring all my (ten) Inovelli White Series On/Off switch Energy tallies into HA’s Energy Dashboard when I noticed that they were all registering 70+ kWh of energy consumption (these are small LED lightbulbs, some only used at night, so that struck me immediately as impossible). Not only is the rate of consumption higher than it should be based on the actual loads being powered, but the tally continues to increase at this accelerated pace even when the load is off. Apologies if this has already been reported in detail. I did search (though perhaps not well!).
Details follow. . .
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Device: Inovelli White Series On/Off (VTM30-SN)
Firmware: 1.0.0
Integration: Home Assistant Matter over Thread (direct pairing)
Issue: Electrical Energy Measurement cluster increments while power is 0W and load is OFF.
Reproduction Steps
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Load switched OFF (confirmed visually).
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Power entity in HA reports 0.0 W.
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Measured energy delta over 10 minutes.
Energy readings:
This corresponds to: ~46 W implied load while load is actually off
So the Energy cluster is incrementing at the rate of a ~46W load while the Power cluster reports 0W.
Over 24 hours, the device accumulated 0.857 kWh (~35.7W average), which is inconsistent with the actual 14W nighttime-only load.
Expected Behavior
Energy should not increase while power is 0W and the load is OFF.
I just took a look at this on one of my VTM30s. It is running 1.0.4 beta software (though there is nothing in the release notes to infer anything was fixed in this area).
This switch is operating in “Smart Bulb” mode and it’s Load is connected to an Inovelli White Fan/Light Canopy.
At 10:30pm last night the energy reading was 76.046 kWh. At 8:30am this morning (the canopy light was off all night) it was 76.049 kWh. That is .003 kWh in 10 hrs which can easily be explained by the quiescent current of the canopy (in fact I would have thought the quiescent load would be higher).
Either there is a change between 1.0.0 and 1.0.4 that relates to this @EricM_Inovelli ? or something odd is going on here.
A phantom energy usage bug was fixed in firmware 1.03. It looks like I accidentally left it out of the change log.
Thanks for the update!
1.0.3 is available via Test-Net… correct?
Thank you both for your diligence in looking into this.
I’m glad it’s likely fixed via firmware. I’m torn between going “beta” and just being patient. But, in order for me to have more flexibility, may I ask that the beta firmware testing procedure/enrollment information be sent to me? I get the sense from other threads that it has to be PMed.
Looking forward to extra geekiness in my HA Energy Panel soon! 
There are a couple options ways to do it. I can PM you instructions on how to manually install the update (not too tough of a process). Or you can subscribe your HA to the “Test-Net” DCL. I usually give updates first to individuals via PM and then later put the updated in the Test-Net. So if you like to be bleeding edge then you can reach out to me. If you are just interested in Beta, then you could just enable the Test-Net. I think this is available option in the Matter Server configuration.
In either case you get the option to install the update on a switch-by-switch basis. So you should get a notification in Home Assistant that an update is available and then it is up to you to click the update button to make it process. I recommend that you always come to the community and check the release notes and the thread to see if anything has been reported. Also, I recommend doing a staged update cycle where you update a low usage area, test it out for a few days, and then proceed with some other switches.
Edit: @andrewk yeah, 1.0.3 is in Test-Net at the moment.
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