Energy: Cost for the individual devices

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.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, that 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.

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@arva Great project, if you haven’t found anyone yet I am open to continuing the project.

My username on GitHub is: BDVGitHub

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3 years later, how do we still not have costs for individual devices?! I guess the only solution remains to add each one to the grid consumption.

This is surprising that this has not been added…it could be as basic as when you click the bars on the individual devices card it shows both kWh and price. Please please please add this!

This really should be a core feature. I cannot understand why? It is such an obvious feature to have.

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3 years later, did anyone manage to display this info next to individual devices ? :wink:

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:partying_face: English, Swedish and Dutch translation are completed

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Only using the work around by including the devices as ‘gas’ consumption.

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When it is possible for gas, why not make it possible for electricity at least for people with a fixed rate per kwh…

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I’m sure the HA devs and other capable ppl have a lot to do, but i’m bumping this just to show that there are ppl that want to see further development to the energy dashboard :slight_smile:

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you’ll have to for give me here but wasn’t individual devices added to HA a while ago, even this month more updates " Device hierarchy for energy management"

There are individual devices but without price, just energy in kWh.

I totally support this feature request. I’ve been trying for long to do it my self in my own panel but I faced some issues when rebooting the home assistant server. The information of consumption is already there, so most of the work is there.

By the way, it would be great to have in the same chart electricity and gas expenditure, including fixed fees. See my example:

Over a thousand votes (this thread alone - there are others) - How hard can a daily charge be? I don’t think I will be able to read 4 years of posts. is there an accepted manual method?

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Its even easier now to install and update Dynamic Energy Cost since its included on the HACS store :blush:

Thanks for this information.
Dynamic Energy cost doesn’t track individual Tariff for each equipment. It’s global. I’d like to have cost tracking for each Tariff.
It’s seam impossible to do with Dynalic Energy cost wich have only global price tracking

This thread was created in 2021 and it’s unbelievable that HA devs haven’t thought about doing this. Does anyone know how many votes it takes to get their attention to something?

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I was using the gas method until recently (adding the individual devices as gas consumptions), but I decided I wanted a more accurate picture so I got rid of them. That’s the easy way if you don’t mind having fake gas consumption numbers.

Maybe a good way to approach it is how they have handled the individual devices menu. You could add the total consumption, and then add the smaller items but say they “belong” to the bigger one so it doesn’t double count. In fact, that might even get rid of the need for the two menus? The individual devices section would just be part of the Electricity Consumption one.