Not the same request as we are talking about buying and consuming water as a utilities (from water utility companies) just as you buy and consume electricity from a power company. See this thread:
"The utility meter integration provides functionality to track consumptions of various utilities (e.g., energy, gas, water, heating).
From a user perspective, utility meters operate in cycles (usually monthly) for billing purposes. This sensor will track a source sensor values, automatically resetting the meter based on the configured cycle. On reset an attribute will store the previous meter value, providing the means for comparison operations (e.g., “did I spend more or less this month?”) or billing estimation (e.g., through a sensor template that multiplies the metered value per the charged unit amount).
Some utility providers have different tariffs according to time/resource availability/etc. The utility meter enables you to define the various tariffs supported by your utility provider and accounts your consumptions in accordance. When tariffs are defined a new entity will show up indicating the current tariff. In order to change the tariff, the user must call a service, usually through an automation that can be based in time or other external source (eg. a REST sensor)."
I came to the forums to post on this same request. Through the power of search, I found this thread.
I’m using the Energy DB to track my resource consumption for environmental purposes. I have electric w/ Sense and template sensors to render on the Energy DB and am using that to better understand where I have vampire devices and the energy impact of doing things via appliance vs. by hand (dishwasher cycle ends, heated dry turns on. What’s the environmental & financial cost of that?)
I’m still trying to figure out how to read my gas meter (Nicor, IL) but in the absence of that - I’ll try to extrapolate from my electic usage on gas fed devices.
I’m treating water like I do electric and gas - something to minimize and it would be great to have it along side the other utilities.
I would love to see a “native” integration of water (metering). I’ve setup everything using utility_meter and it works fine on top of my MQTT sensor. Still I believe it should be same top level item like gas or energy. Considering gas and water might be much simpler compared to energy it seems to be a good one to add.
Interesting to see some people referring to Gas as energy. I disagree gas is energy. Energy is the heat it produces by burning it. Gas is a resource like water. Although I agree typically water is not used to produce energy, but it is also a resource consumed in our homes.
For me it does not matter how water will be interpreted,
I would really like to see a dashboard similar to energy with history of my water consumption.
I agree with you! And want to add that at least in the Netherlands (in new construction houses) hot water is used as heating instead of gas.
Those houses don’t have a gas connection at all, but instead get their “hot water” from centralized district heating. This water heats the floors and is used for warm running water.
Which makes it function the same as the gas in the energy dashboard.
This is the reason I would LOVE a (hot) water consumption meter in the Energy dashboard!
Same for me, integrated or in it’s own dashboard is detail, what I’d like to see is water treated the same way as energy is, for the same reason: automatic day/week summary and estimation of bill…
the fact it’s energy (electric or chemical) or water is not important in this context, what count is that it’s metered resource you have to pay per consumption.
I see 2 difference:
Contrary to electricity, you can not reinject in to network, so there is no concept of production price (elven if you can auto produce, it’s only for self consumption)
having alarms for over-consumption is much much more useful than for electricity… Water loss in conduits or toilets is a very common problem, which can turn expensive if you are not aware of it…
Since i found and enjoyed the energy dashboard, i was surprised not to find a water one (i also have a connected water meter through hacs/mqtt, so i have the data, just not the nice statistics and integration automatically done like for energy)…
Adding it is really a no brainer, in fact i may hack the gas one (which i do not use at home) to present water as gas if it does not come soon
Regarding water: do not forget to distinguish cold water and hot water. In some appartment buildings the water heater is central and hot water costs more.
So basically I would propose that Energy become Utilities and is capable of coping with:
Electricity
Gaz
Cold water
Hot water
Waste (I am sure there are cases where you can either have the total number of collections and even weight - think about non-recycable waste, recyclable waste, vegetable waste, dangerous waste);
Telecoms (total GB in/out consumed, total calls, total time, etc).
I am not saying that it has to do all that short term, but that developement should be done with that in mind.
Should be really awesome to have the Energy tab turned into Utilities or something. I just set up my water meter of the incoming waterline in my house. Fingers crossed that this will make it into Home Assistant
Just another point of view… don’t go to town on me.
Energy: The power from something such as electricity or oil that can do work, such as providing light and heat.
Utilities: It is electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, internet, rubbish, sewerage etc
HA Energy = is power
A simple solution if you would like water just add another page, its there now. You can read what comes out of the sky, what is held in your water tanks, read mains water usage how much you use in your garden / bathroom / kitchen / dishwasher / washing machine… it up to you and your imagination. That is why we all love HA. But it is not energy.
I mean there is no harm adding it to energy but then it wouldn’t be call that… it would be called Utilities right. Then it start to get messy and would assume hard to maintain. Like what about car petrol/gas… well we charge our EV right… why not measure how much petrol we use. I hear some people have diesel tanks for heating… that’s power right… most HA users just add a sensor to keep an eye on it.
If you would like a page called Utilities just make one and have everything in there.
Remember is just another click to go from water to energy. You still have to get all the sensors to read water.
That would be ok if the "engergy cards’ were available to use with ANY sensor we throw at it.
So we could have these nice diagrams for water as well.
Not to mention the monthly-day by day bar chart for the individual devices already in the Energy tab.
So I plead for the addition of water to the energy panel. It is a raw material consumed by households. People who do not want it displayed in the energy panel will not set it. But those who want it there will have the opportunity to set this function. in CR, water is supplied and invoiced in m3, just like gas (which is also only consumed by households, energy is subsequently produced from it)
Good day, I came across this search looking for a way to add my water usage to the energy dashboard. I sort of agree that it should be renamed to utility or consumption dashboard. Electricity, gas, water etc.
I would also want the ability to monitor different sources of water, for example, clean municipal water, borehole and Grey water. With the ability to install meters downstream to the monitor what is using how much. Exactly like the electricity meter…
