G’day,
hoping to share with the community a HACs integration that I’ve put together. It is for the energy provider 1st Energy, as they don’t officially share their usage statistics with the end customer, I felt the need to put something together myself.
Energy 1st is an Australian provider, they offer time of use and usage statistics from a smart meter. Despite committing to 3rd party provider statistics, they do not provide simplified methods to provide a customer with their own usage information.
The app they provide for their service, however, uses an undocumented API, which their own web portal also uses. This is where this integration draws data from.
I wanted this out there so that people who google or search can find it, also more eyes on the project the more robust it becomes.
Find the github link: GitHub - FoxClock/1stEnergy-Assistant: Home assistant plugin for 1st energy provider energy usage. · GitHub
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HACs store: 1st Energy
What you get
In the Energy dashboard - hourly electricity consumption and hourly cost, both backdated to the hours they actually occurred, at the meter’s native 5-minute resolution aggregated to hours. Time-of-use bands are read from the meter data, so a time-of-use plan is costed the way the retailer costs it rather than against a flat rate you type in.
As sensors - account balance, next invoice amount, next invoice due date, and the date the meter data currently reaches.
Hope this helps more than just me. Cheers