Any thoughts on monitoring electricity consumption

Energy
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Hey there,

I have a couple of switches that monitor my energy consumption. But I want to monitor my whole consumption even though our electricity meter is not smart …

I even have no chance to add any device that captures the numbers on the electricity meter.

But I’m capable of going in the basement to check the current consumption and add it to home assistant :smiley: but I think I have to substract the consumed energy that is monitored by the smart switches. Any idea how to achieve this?

Due to the fact that I can’t add or use any hardware I thought this might be able by software.

My thoughts: I add the current numbers of the electricity meter on monday at 8pm and then again on friday 11pm for example. That makes a consumption of 40kwh in that given time.

The smart switches tracked a consumption of 20kw in that given time. So the “not smart consumption” would be 20kwh. And that 20kwh should be added as a consumption for the energy stats. But I don’t know how to achieve this calculation

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Did you see this?
Integrating your electricity grid - Home Assistant

Does any of the options here work for you?

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Unfortunately I can’t use any hardware for this because the distance between the electricity meter is way to far away from my Server. Additionally there is no way to place any repeaters between them.

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If you have access to the api by any chance you can get it to work. I just got mine to work just yesterday. But it all depends on the API. Mine was quite difficult to setup. Had to create a python fill to fetch data and use command line to create sensors.