"Good enough" Water Meter Tracking in Home Assistant

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.

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.

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.