What do we use that for? Can anyone provide an example of real life usefulness other than the given Wled examples. Are the new number and select replacing input_number and input_select, but now based on template value instead of user input? Trying to visualize the use cases , but fear I need a simpler example to graph its potential. thanks
The new features are ‘Energy’. Water has been able to be added as a consumption for a long time, but it isn’t Energy. Add your own Water consumption tracking, it’s not hard. The Integrations already exist.
No problems with the upgrade here. Running on Pi4 and seems to run smooth.
But I don’t understand why it’s made this difficult for people to use the Energy tab.
If you don’t have a straight out of the box solution (liking buying that meter) a lot of us got a headache to get everything to work.
Even making a simple input_number to use to calculate your costs is way too much work, specially with all those extra attributes that seems useless . How difficult can you make this thing to set up?
I’m still using my own take to get my energy monitored, all works great (without last_reset and other things that seems useless for a lot of us… Now the first update and suddenly you need total_increasing…), water included. Cause even after a month I don’t get it to work like my own stuff. And for sure not without a lot of reading.
It seems nice, but if you are new to HA and have to make new sensors, add attributes,… It would scare me away for sure.
Totally agree with you.
I think the name of the dashboard was poorly chosen, should have been the utility dashboard where of coarse energy plays an important role.
We have utility meters in home assistant so why not call the dashboard as such too?
I find this a great idea, I was thinking about the same for the monthly delivery fees in the Netherlands.
If this can be added, it would be appreciated to add an option to choose Daily, weekly or Monthly fixed cost.
Thank you for the laugh, have a great day!
(typical Aussie)