Gas usage sensor filter

Configuration
1

Hello everyone,

I was setting up the energy dashboard for someones HA instance and while everything else worked great, I am having trouble adding the gas usage sensor.
The docs say: “Wähle einen Sensor, der den Gasverbrauch in CCF, ft³, m³, GJ, kWh, MJ, MWh, Wh misst.”

So I checked all the sensors provided by the heater and found the perfect one which looks like this:

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As we can see it’s a working sensor measuring in m3.
But when I try adding it to the energy dashboard it doesn’t show up:

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Only a few sensors show up, all measuring kWh.
I even went so far as to create my own sensor via a template and tried both m3 as well as kWh but even after rebooting they won’t show up either.

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Can anyone help me understand what the energy dashboard frontend filter for?

Thanks and have a great weekend!

2

Try device class ‘gas’. I believe that’s required if you want it to show up as an option under gas.

3

Hey Ben,
thanks for answering!

I tried changing it to gas as so and rebooted:

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Sadly, no difference…

4

Your cubic needs to be a superscript, like this:

unit_of_measurement: m³

And you need to define a state class of total or total_increasing I believe.

5

Hey, I’ve tried the unit of measurement as you stated (as well as m3 and even kWh) but again, won’t show up.
I had also tried giving it a state class but that won’t work:
'state_class' is an invalid option for 'template'

6

it doesnt have

 device_class: gas

You need to provide more information on this. I have integrated my gas consumption by calculating my gas consumption based on furnace burner on/off status. I created sensors and everything was recognized in ha energy dashboard.

7

Sounds like you’re using the legacy template sensor format, which I don’t believe supports defining the state class.

It would be immensely helpful if you posted the full YAML of the template sensor that isn’t working (properly formatted text and not just a screenshot).

8

Hello everyone.
Thanks for taking the time. Sure, my sensor at this point of experimentation looks like this:

templates.yaml

- sensors:
    gas_total:
      friendly_name: Gasverbrauch aktuell Gesamt
      unit_of_measurement: m³
      device_class: energy
      #state_class: total_increasing
      value_template: >-
        {{ states('sensor.vicare_heating_gas_consumption_current_day') }}

I’ve been using this format since the olden days. Hadn’t realized there’s been a change in the format.

But I’m wondering if we’re having the classic A/B-Problem-Situation.
The original question was

Why does this sensor show up in the selection:

state_class: total_increasing
unit_of_measurement: kWh
device_class: energy
friendly_name: E3_Vitodens_200_0821 Energieverbrauch in diesem Jahr

But this one does not:

state_class: total_increasing
unit_of_measurement: m³
friendly_name: E3_Vitodens_200_0821 Heizgasverbrauch aktueller Tag

Thanks, have a nice sunday!

9

This is my setup.
In template.yaml I have

### Buderus gas usage calculation
- sensor:
  - name: "Buderus daily gas usage"
    unique_id: furnace_gas
    device_class: gas
    unit_of_measurement: "m³"
    state: "{{ (states('sensor.buderus_on_time_today') | float * 0.065 * 60) | round(2) }}"
    state_class: total_increasing

and in sensors.yaml

### Buderus running time daily
- platform: history_stats
  name: Buderus On Time Today
  entity_id: binary_sensor.buderus_kessel_betrieb_1_stufe_2
  unique_id: 561dda8d-06a9-4322-8785-9fd364690ed2
  state: "on"
  type: time
  start: '{{ now().replace(hour=0).replace(minute=0).replace(second=0) }}'
  end: '{{ now() }}'

In energy dashboard i use this sensor from template.yaml. It calculates daily gas usage based burner running time. It’s one stage burner.

10

Hey everyone,

switching to the new format and adding the state_class did the trick, thanks everyone!

- sensor:
  - name: "Gasverbrauch aktuell Gesamt"
    unique_id: gas_total
    device_class: gas
    unit_of_measurement: "m³"
    state: "{{ states('sensor.vicare_heating_gas_consumption_current_day') }}"
    state_class: total_increasing