yes, I’ll revert to my previous workaround too, because Ive just restarted my system, and though the retained topic is still there, all mqtt sensors fail the last_reset once again… grr
I’ve made an energy template sensor with a last_reset attribute of ‘1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00’ and have done a quick check to see that the Home Energy Management System sees this sensor in its list and it does!
However in reality, that meter actually resets at midnight. So I’m actually trying to figure out what the template for last_reset should look like. Any ideas?
The meter I use does cloud polling so it actually does not get reset at midnight but some number of minutes after that. However, since it appears the Home Energy Management does an update around 12 minutes after the hour, I decided on minute=10, but again minute = 0 will probably work as well.
I have configured the cards, but I would like to view the consumption of the last 5 days at the same time without having to change the date.
Do you say it is possible?
alternatively, can I put 5 sensors that take the data from the home assistant db or from a csv file that saves me the total consumption every night?
I am trying to configure the Energy configuration. I have a ‘Used’ Energy counter which counts up and down depending on Energy consumed v.s. returned. This value is a ‘lifetime’ counter which is now negative (-1400 kWh). I configured this as ‘Grid consumption’ and added the solar to ‘Solar production’ but don’t know how to configure ‘Return to grid’.
A it is now it only shows the Solar energy flowing to ‘Home’ and not the consumption and delivery to the grid. Any ideas?
Maybe i oversee this topic too simple, but:
why not just enable anyone to add any sensor to the config for monitoring?
E.g. i use several Shelly (Plugs) and other additions which also monitor energy, these also show up as entities.
At least for me, this would be more sinmple to just add from the whole entities list.
Yes, i know this may show more as needed, but it would be more simple at least to me without adding specific config lines…
maybe because the energy integration needs those attributes? How do you think it can calculate daily stuff without last_reset etc.? Developers aren’t stupid, if they filter sensors based on those attributes it’s because it’s a prerequisite for the correct functioning of the integration, not because the list would get too crowded.
i just shared my thoughts with nthis topic as beeing new to energy. So no need of beeing that attackable, please.
I thought that it would do time coun ting itself (e.g. as with power meters from a light sensor). But now i undestand there is more insights i did not think of. Understood better now.
Will try to achieve same with the configs explained above.
I didn’t attack you, I even explicitly put a smile at the end of the post just in case…but I see it didn’t work. Sorry if you interpreted like that, it was just ironic, not aggressive at all.
Anyone else seen that the calculation of peak and offpeak not correct on energy page?
Well i setup a long time ago with the same device a (utility_device) that calculates the daily usage.
After a day i checked and on the energy dashboard it says i consumed total (4.93kWh) and on my utility_device it’s (4.80kWh) i have a dmsr 5 meter so it goes automatically to peak offpeak and i use the Cumulative device…
When i check the saved (Cumulative device) and do some math the utility_meter shows the correct value…
