Dynamic Energy Cost

arva · October 22, 2024, 6:19am

i reccomend to just change the entity id back to what it was. So all your other stuff that used Nordpoo works as well. This Nordpool naming is pretty bad to be honest.

Rams · October 23, 2024, 7:43am

I follow this threat.
Last august I’ve also created a feature request:

github.com/martinarva/dynamic_energy_cost

Update the "Energy Usage Sesor Entity ID"

opened 08:53AM - 27 Aug 24 UTC

MrRamsus

enhancement

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** A clear and …concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...] It would be nice if I'm able to edit the "Energy Usage Sensor Entity ID (kWh)" (or other values) for the Dynamic Energy Cost. This would be handy for the situation that the Entity has been changed, or you have a new electricity entity. **Describe the solution you'd like** A clear and concise description of what you want to happen. A way to edit the values (GUI or manual) **Describe alternatives you've considered** A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered. Remove and add the entity again. But history data is removed **Additional context** Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

In my specific case, my Vehicle charger was defect and it was switched. My entity has been changed in HA and the Entity ID in the app couldn’t be changed. I’ve configured it again, but my history has been lost now.

I hope there should be a nice feature available to have a way to change the value without loosing history.

christbj · October 23, 2024, 8:00am

How to keep history when replacing a device has been discussed before and there are suggested sullitions for this. I have not tried them myself, but i would create a new backup before testing this. Take a look at this thread: Replace entities and keep history (BREAKING CHANGE starting HA Core 2023.4) - #4 by e-raser

phsdv · October 25, 2024, 1:36pm

The entity changed the name because the source and the integration that uses this source gave it a new name. It is not possible for me to change the entity id back.

arva · October 26, 2024, 5:50pm

Hi All!

I’m sorry I haven’t maintained the integration for a while. Unfortunately can’t promise to have time in the near future as well.

Few recommendations so you aren’t so dependable of the integration logic:

If you have enegy (kwh) sensor, use this. Only if you don’t have, use power (W) sensor. Reason is that the energy calculations are more precice
Make a sensor with my integration and make unlimited amount of HAUtility Meter sensors for different periods you would like (all time, hourly, daily, two days, whatever you like).

I have seen all the ideas and request here and github, but just don’t have what it takes to implement these.

i’m really thrilled that so many people found something, I thought was only my need , so useful. Now I feel a bit bad letting you all down not maintaining what I started. If anybody is interested in contributing and doing what needs to be done, I would gladly give all permissions in github to continue what i started. I mean, this is what opensource sould be in my view.

In my opinion this functionality is something that would be nice to see in Home Assistant core. It would make so much sense to have a cost/profit side in the energy management.

JukeboxBill · October 28, 2024, 10:44am

Maybe you found a solution already, but for showing previous data I use the history-explorer-card integration:
https://github.com/SpangleLabs/history-explorer-card