Do I need to create a utility helper?

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I’ve just got a frient sensor that reads the LED pulses on my electricity meter and has two sensors:-

Instantaneous demand (in watts)
Summation Delivered (in kWh)

I assumed to get the stats I wanted on my energy dashboard, I had to create a utility helper with a daily reset, based on the summation delivered. This is working fine.

But what if I add the raw summation delivered sensor, what exactly would happen ?
This is indeed what I’ve done for some of my individual devices and the energy dashboard shows the daily amounts just fine, so did I need to create the helper for the grid consumption sensor ?

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On the Energy Dashboard, it will be handled the same. Only need the utility meter helper if you want a tally per day, etc. to be used elsewhere.

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