Create entity with daily- and monthly cost

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Hi,
I would like to create two different entities based on my fixed electric price I have for another year.

  • daily entity accumulates my electric usage x the cost I have and resets every night
  • monthly entity accumulates my electric usage x the cost I have and resets first day of every month

Can someone please help pointing me in the right direction to start this?

Thanks!

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I have a helper text input that defines my fixed price per kWh.

I have a sensor that tracks my total kWh.

Then I create a template sensor that multiplies the two above.

After that I created utility meters for daily, weekly, monthly price based on the template sensor value.

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Ok thanks. Never done templating, mind sharing the code?

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This is what I use:

    estimated_energy_cost_total:
      friendly_name: Estimated energy cost total
      icon_template: mdi:cash
      unit_of_measurement: "SEK"
      value_template: "{{ (states('input_text.electricity_price_per_kwh')|float) * (states('sensor.home_energy')|float) }}"

input_text.electricity_price_per_kwh is a helper where I define my fixed cost per kWh (in my case the value is “2.02”) (thank you Swedish government for increasing it with about 100% lately lol)

sensor.home_energy is a Powercalc group sensor that accumulates all my home energy consumption in total.

What I do then is that I create Utility meters as helpers for tracking it periodically:

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Ok thanks for sharing the code dear countrymen! :wink:
Might need some more help to get this going:

  1. First I create a helper called input_text.electricity_price_per_kwh
    What type is that helper?

  2. then I create a template using your code above

  3. What is a power calc group? another template?

Swedish: Kör EON nu på 0.54 öre 1 år till…blir tibber sedan! :wink:

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  1. Under Settings > Devices & Services you can add a Helper under the Helpers tab.
    In this case I have used the Text helper:

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Then I have set the value:

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  1. Corret

  2. Powercalc is an addon that you can find in HACS: GitHub - bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc: Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances

Swedish: Jag hade EON 0.60 öre fram till 1 nov. Nu har jag Fortum 120 öre 3 år framåt. Tänk på att du ska räkna med energiskatten och nätavgiften med för att du ska få fram ditt totala pris. I mitt fall är 2.01 SEK/kWh alltså 120 öre + skatt och avgifter från EON.

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I am using my sensors to show me the value like this:

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With Powercalc you can create groups of energy/power sensors to get better understanding of your usage:

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Thanks - trying to configure it now. Will get back to let you know!

Swedish: Har 0.52 SEK i grundpris / kWh och har lagt till skatt o skit så har fyllt i 1.25 SEK i kostnad. Tror det är ganska rätt. :slight_smile:

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Hi again, not sure I got things correct…

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  1. created a helper (see image below)

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  2. Installed powercalc and configured the needed devices:
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  3. added the template in configuration.yaml:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      - billaddning_power:
          friendly_name: "Billaddning"
          unit_of_measurement: "W"
          device_class: "power"
          value_template: "{{ ((states('sensor.easee_power')) | float * 1000) | round }}"
      - estimated_energy_cost_total:
          friendly_name: Elkostnad
          icon_template: mdi:cash
          unit_of_measurement: "SEK"
          value_template: "{{ (states('input_text.electricity_price_per_kwh')|float) * (states('sensor.home_energy')|float) }}"

Would like to have an entity that shows the cost today in SEK (and resets every night) and one entity showing the cost of the month (and resets every month).

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You are halfway there!

Next you need to create utility meters. That is done in the Helpers section under Settings as well. See my previous post where I explained that step.

You will need to create a utility meter per period you wish to track.
For example one for monthly, one for weekly and one for daily.

Use your template sensor “estimated_energy_cost_total” as the input sensor.

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Got it now, I had a typo in the helper as well.

Have only added a few of my sensors now, but looks good.

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Thanks for your help!

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Great! Please mark my reply as answer if you wish :slight_smile:

Lycka till!

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its possible to calculate the cost with variable rate cost of energy? (daily, peak , night) for a specific item?

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Hi Guys. I might be a little off topic.
Has anyone managed to create entity which adds daily charge in to the total used energy?
I have 2 tariffs meter which I know how to automate it so they calculate peak and off peak separately. I am trying to figure out how to add daily charge in to daily usage. Basically my bill is made of 3 charges.
Peak time usage (£/kWh) plus off peak usage (£/kWh) and daily charge (£/day).
Can anyone help please? :pray:t3::pray:t3::pray:t3::pray:t3: