…that finds it incredibly hard to set up and frustrating to get any kind of useful documentation to help them?
It is very tempting to enter rant mode but I promise not to use the term ‘half-baked’.
I have tried for weeks to get this set up in a satisfactory manner and yes, for electricity it seems eventually to be ok (but it’s a shame there are some apparently undocumented ‘extras’ that need to be included in the customize section).
But gas? Oh no, that is a completely different story. I have started again many times.
To keep it simple, one step at time, with my latest attempt, what on earth is this error message telling me?
Because it is clearly wrong (or very badly worded)
Like I said, one step at a time but just to give an idea of the frustration, clicking on the link ‘More information on how to get started.’ takes you here which frankly is useless in the context of the error.
Ok, then shouldn’t the device class be energy? I don’t use this stuff. But as an engineer, I would expect the device_class gas to expect gas unit of measurements so it can do the conversions for you.
Well not for nothing but to me, the first thing I saw was “Gas can’t be measured as energy because it’s a volume”.
I get what koying is saying, but I don’t really agree with it. Gas is gas and it has units. Energy is energy and it has units. This is outside of HA, I’m talking real world. I would expect HA to follow suit.
I actually agree with you.
But my gas is metered in m3 (as is the case for most(?) people in the UK) but charged in units of kWh using an industry agreed conversion. So I need to convert it to kWh if I am to use the option of adding a cost per unit.
Then change your gas units to m3 with gas. Then move from there. I’m sure there’s some sort of tariff system setup for this stuff, if not make a template sensor that converts the m3 to w and track that.
I get it, I really do. But I haven’t gone through the process. He hasn’t even created it correctly to find out what the next steps are. It may just track volume consumption. If that’s the case then we’d have to do some other work behind it. Yes that may not be favorable, but at this point none of us know without doing it.
Yes I can do that and in fact I have. I was having such a nightmare with this Energy Integration that I made a Lovelece view to help me sense check what was going on.
But I don’t think what you are suggesting is compatible with the actual Energy Integration.
EDIT: Oh and yesterday the gas side was all in m3. I changed it today to match what I thought I needed to do in the Energy integration. So it works both ways. Just not (as far as I can see) in the energy integration.
Ok, then do you know the unit of your m3 to kw? Because at this point, you need to convert the gas consumption into kw or w then convert that into kwh or wh. Then use that entity as the energy entity.