Hi I was looking for some advice on a smart meter integration into Home Assistant.
I have smets2 gas and electric smart meters supplied by British Gas in the UK, I’ve already set up the Bright app and the figures from the suppliers API appear fine on the app.
I’ve added the Hildebrand Glow integration via HACS and setup the following in the gas consumption section of the energy dashboard.
Gas usage:
DCC Sourced smart gas meter Usage (today)
Use an entity tracking the total cost:
DCC Sourced smart gas meter Cost (today)
The issue I’m having is that I get the following two errors under gas consumption once saved.
statistics_not_defined
sensor.dcc_sourced_smart_gas_meter_usage_today
Entity unavailable
The state of these configured entities are currently not available:
We have notice the gas readings have dropped off from hildebrand and 90% of the time there is no gas readings being received.
This started for us several months ago and when I initially looked in to it I discovered multiple other people having the same issue (only with gas) and from memory it was a problem on hildebrand’s end and they were aware of it.
I haven’t looked since to be honest as I plan to purchase their Local hardware and use MQTT when I get round to it.
Yeah same thing happened to me, I imagine it wasn’t a complete accident
I’ve bought the local MQTT device and it works perfectly with HASS, there’s a blueprint somewhere on these forums to add the discovery payloads so they show up properly
Once you’ve got the local device, ironically you don’t use the Hildebrand integration at all. Remove it and delete your old entities
Thank you both, I guess I’ll look to get the local hardware at some point as well, I’d rather not spend the extra but if it’s the only way to integrate it effectively I’ll go down that route.
