"Good enough" Water Meter Tracking in Home Assistant

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Wanted to add my water meters to Home Assistant forever.

In general the idea is to track the water meter manually. Every week I want to get a notification on my smartphone which reminds me to read the water meter and record its value. I need an easy & quick way to enter the values into Home Assistant, otherwise I wont do it. At last, the entered values should be treated as normal sensor values. I want to be able to display them in the UI and use them in queries and reports from within Grafana.

It’s not a fully automated solution but I think it is a nice example how to use manual inputs in Home Assistant so I wrote a blog post about it. You can check it out here: Manual Water Meter Tracking in Home Assistant - Sven's development notes

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Although not very high-tech for us freaks :slight_smile: I really like the good-enough part, quite often: less is more.
Both my water and gas meter are outside the premises, without electricity to add sensors, so this one would help a bit.

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I like the concept also.

@sven1 - This is minor. But please also note that HA is changing how template sensors being configured / structured in configuration.yaml. The legacy way would still work, as of today, but I’d expect it would be phasing out over time, and eventually being dropped.

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Hi sven1,
you could create an automation that triggers a notification to your phone. This notification is answerable like a message and ha put’s this in a template sensor.