Hello,
I’m trying to understand how I can properly setup the Energy Dashboard of Home Assistant.
My setup is, I believe, a bit outside of the typical use case.
Basically I have everything I could need with data from my Belgian smart meter and my solar panel inverter data.
My smart meter is read with " DSMR Slimme Meter" integration. This means that it comes with 4 meter readings (indexes). Namely:
- Electricity Meter Energy consumption (tarif 1)
- Electricity Meter Energy consumption (tarif 2)
- Electricity Meter Energy production (tarif 1)
- Electricity Meter Energy production (tarif 2)
Tarif 1 and tarif 2 are other names for Peak and Off Peak both of them are meter readings (aka indexes)
The term “production” there is a bit off as this actually represents what is sent/injected back to the network (return to grid)
Besides that, I get my solar production from the SMA Solar integration and this returns (among lots of other informations) a “total_yield” which is also some kind of meter readings.
So my questions are:
- From the documentation, I understand that I need to plug in the Energy dashboard some consumption/production rather that a meter reading. Can someone confirm? I would say that it would be easy to calculate as it is basically dataT - dataT-1
- The UI allows me to select the sensor to use. I mean, a single one… I sum up the 2 tariffs sensors but that seems kind of sad to lose the tarif split.
Can someone give a bit of guidance on how to approach this?
Thanks,