I’ve just added an OPower integration that shares my running electricity bill information (updated every couple of minutes/hours: my utility’s “smart meter” radios it it the utility, who passes it to OPower, who passes it to me). I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to plug this data into Home Assistant’s Energy Dashboard.
Background: my system is pretty straightforward: no solar, no batteries, just consuming electricity from the grid. My immediate goal is to be able to see the amount I’ve consumed on a dashboard, graph it day by day (or more granularly as the data permits), and in the future I’d like to be able to split this total-from-the-utility out into individual device consumption levels using a mixture of smart plugs and a breaker-box monitor, like an iotawatt.)
Here’s what I did and what happened:
- I started with a completely blank energy dashboard. I hit the “3 dots” menu and opened “Energy Configuration”.
- In the window that appeared, in the “electricity grid” pane I hit “add consumption” (under grid consumption)
- For “consumed energy” I chose “Current bill electric usage to date” (sensor.current_bill_electric_usage_to_date from the OPower integration). For costs I chose “Use an entity tracking the total costs” and selected “current bill electric cost to date” (sensor.current_bill_electric_cost_to_date from the OPower integration).
- I was rewarded with a nice graph in the Energy Dashboard … that was completely empty. No consumption shown:
- Additionally, the table at the bottom of the Energy dashboard showed zeroes
- I left it overnight (in case there’s update latency), and it didn’t change.
- The problem is: if I go to the “Overview” dashboard, I see the values of those exact same entities as (very) nonzero.
Is there something I’m doing wrong? Any advice?
Thanks!