I have a lot of sensors that come from MQTT for grid import and export etc.
However I cannot select any of them in the “Energy” configuration, they are not on the list and no idea why.
This is the sensor that comes from MQTT:
It works fine for me, and anyway it’s probably only a matter of time until this can be added to mqtt sensors dirwctly in the config. This was suggested by some dev on discord.
I had a similar issue (I think). It has to do with the fact that your sensors reset on a daily basis. That causes some strange effects in the calculation, since the Energy dashboard uses sensors which only accumulate. I got around the issue with creating 2 utility meters and 2 sensors to convert to ‘kWh’ and use those in the dashboard.
Hmm the same trick did not work for the battery for me.
I have the new battery utility meters and they work ok but they do not show up on the dropdown lists no matter what I do.
I even tried to create my own templates from those entities and it’s all the same. I can add any of them as solar production but none of them as gas consumption.
The only entity I can see on the list doesn’t work and had typo and was changed/removed long time ago, after it stopped working.
I’ve created 2 utility meters one called Electricity Utility Meter and one called Export
Each meter has 3 modes, Normal, Peak, Super Cheap which are controlled by an automation according to the time.
I can add the Electricity Utility Meter into the energy dashboard, but NOT the export meter and I cannot figure out why I’m pretty sure I created them the same.
The utility meter for export is MISSING from the list
So I have figured out what caused this. Turns out my HA was set to EUR so I fixed the values from the statistics screen but I’ve lost my super cheap entity in doing so.
It Looks like I accidentally lost the unit of measurement, not sure how to get this back now.
I worked out that I have to wait until the data starts flowing before the helper automatically gets the unit of measurement I think this needs to be logged as a bug