I just wanted to get some advice/examples from anyone who is doing whole home energy monitoring. Not looking to get anything groundbreaking from the data, but want enough information to be able to make adjustments to our usage within the billing cycle and analyze it over time for trends.
I currently have an Aeotec HEM monitoring the AC mains coming into the home. It seems to be within 1-2kWh/day of the meter (I’m assuming that is as close as it gets). I also get daily usage alerts from the power company that I am ingesting via an IMAP sensor that pulls the kWh from the email body and places it in an MQTT topic for retention since the IMAP value doesn’t survive HA restarts.
This all is a bit convoluted, but was hoping someone could chime in with any advice or tips on how to create some meaningful automations and some visualizations to enable this.