Energy: Add fixed daily cost

[91JJ]

Feeds in perfectly. I use the daily cost and usage which isn’t to far out to what my provider is showing.

[Swallowtail (Simon)]

My energy dashboard (this is based on @sean.mcgee’s solution, but modified to be 0.001kWh per daily charge instead of 1kWh… so it doesn’t skew the charts):

[abdulla_alkhbaz (Abdulla Mohammed Alkhabbaz)]

how you did it, we have the same system in my country and I need to know how for my project.

[91JJ]

As above.
I added two helpers to set both tariffs.
Another helper to set the “first target value” ( for me, its the first 2kwh at high price, then remaining at low price)

I then have a template to switch over to tariff two once the 2kwh has been reached

[abdulla_alkhbaz (Abdulla Mohammed Alkhabbaz)]

can you explain to me step by step, which type of helper u are used and what you did with automation because just I used home assistant from week ago

[91JJ]

Hi, apologies for the late reply but I’ve done a step by step ‘how-to’ - HERE

Please let me know your thoughts… Hope it helps!

Energy Dual Tariff Cost

Background: With my utility supplier in the UK (Utilita Energy), I have two tariff prices which depend on how much electricity I have used. Quote below from my supplier shows for the first 2kWh of energy used, I’ll be on the high tariff. After the 2kWh is used, It moves over to the lower Tariff All Periods - First 2 kWh each Day at 35.21p per kWh, thereafter at 19.73p. Standing Charge is £0. Prices are inclusive of Vat at 5% Requirements: Firstly, you’ll need a sensor pulling the Energy…

[trumee]

Unfortunately, i am getting an error

2022-05-08 19:37:00 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template warning: 'as_timestamp' got invalid input 'unknown' when rendering template '{{ (((as_timestamp(states
('sensor.date_time_iso')) / 3600)-1652016564) | int) / 1000}}' but no default was specified. Currently 'as_timestamp' will return 'None', however this template will fail to render in Ho
me Assistant core 2022.6

My template is:

  - name: "Fixed Charges"
    unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
    device_class: energy
    state_class: total_increasing
    state: >-
      {{ (((as_timestamp(states('sensor.date_time_iso')) / 3600)-1652016564) | int) / 1000}}

    attributes:
      last_reset: '1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00'