what are those units? kw or w? or kwh / wh?
That converts m3 to kWh
Ok, then whatever template sensor that is should be
unit_of_measurement: kwh
device_class: energy
and this sensor sensor.octopus_gas_consumption_m3 should be
unit_of_measurement: m³
device_class: gas
now you track cost, energy, and consumption.
why does your octopus consume gas, it can’t live very long on that
Yes.
That is the whole day.
I then break it down into time periods with templates which I can either leave as gas/m3 or convert to energy/kWh.
So far so good.
The Energy integration will not allow a gas entity of m3 (reasonable as agreed) but I only have a price/kWh.
I think it is simply a limitation of the Energy integration. Maybe it will mature in time (or dare I say it become fully baked)
It’ll live longer than me if I don’t stop wasting my time on this 
The thing is I don’t even need it. what will I do with the figures anyway except despair at the price of keeping warm in winter. And I know that already 
Hence why I haven’t added any of this crap to my system.
I’d only want a whole house monitoring energy figure to compare against my electric company. Same with Gas. #trustissues
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assuming you trust the meter…
Hi, I am also hanging on the point to convert my gas meter to kWh. First problem I could not run it with Esphome, no matter what I did, always too many pulses. Now I have an Arduino Sketch running and get the total meter reading in m³ via scrape sensor and have the utility meter running for day, month, year, that works.
Now I am fully stuck on how exactly I can convert this.
In Germany gas is billed by kWh, it is then calculated like this:
Consumption x Condition number x Calorific value = gives kWh.
I do not get it to tinker a template for this unfortunately my modest knowledge in the conversion is not enough. Does anyone have ideas? Come well into the new year