With some configuration, grouping devices is possible.
For the moment, the device consumptions are not totaled together to determine the “remaining” consumption, so I think it does not matter that some “devices” correspond to shared consumption:
How to do it is explained by the (author of the) powercalc integration:
I’d absolutely love to see the ability to track prices on a daily basis against individual devices coming in. I have a time-of-day cost sensor setup, and it’s working great with the whole-of-house cost prediction/calculation, I’d love to be able to see it doing the same thing, but for the individual devices reporting energy usage.
Just a plus one for this. There are a lot of wish-fors in this thread, but starting small: Place a cost column on the Monitor Individual Devices table as it exists on the Sources table.
A plus one from me too. I would love to see this Implemented. I have hourly price and the easiest way I found so far to track individual consumers was to add them as sources.
A solution would be to add each devices in Grid consumption and make a template sensor giving total consumption (ie. sensor on the meter) minus each devices consumption but it’s not ideal. At all.
I have been thinking about this for a while and would really love to see this happening!
Start easy, maybe add a column on the current energy dashboard on the right with the costs that occurred for the device in the chosen timeframe?
It would be so, so encouraging to see that something that consumed X kWh actually was cheaper than something else that ran another time of the day but consumed X-y kWh !
e.g. I have my boiler to run every night (when it’s cheapest) and electric floor heating only on when it’s cheap energy.
I realise that this may be a complicated calculation if you have three main channels coming in with different prices / own production on some channels, not others. - But this might be easier than I think?
I’d love to be able to see details for individual devices as for total consumption. Total consumption can be viewed as histogram by day, week, month or year. Would be nice to see the same for fridge, dryer, etc. to get a picture on changes over time.
Maybe related: I have most of my big consumers in the list. So it’s fine. But I’m really starting to miss an “other devices” in the individual consumer list…
Like sure if i pull out all large consumers, i would love to see what I’m yet to measure and what those costs…
Implementing, i believe would be pretty simple?
Total consumption - ( all individual consumers ) = Other consumers. Make it optional in Energy settings to display “Other Consumers” consumption in the list of individual consumers.
This is already the case, create a template sensor with your price changing according to your schedule or another sensor and use this template sensor as price in the dashboard.
You can also create 2 kwh sensor, each being incremented according to the current tariff.