The data is stored correctly and graphs show just fine, I wanted to also show the consumption cost, but I’ve realized that these statistics don’t have the correct metadata and also, are not really data for sensors.
they don’t look like sensor.daily_consumption but rather sensor:daily_consumption
I’ve been looking but I can’t find a way to make costs show correctly.
I’m having a hard time understanding your question.
Cost is just a separate statistic. You store consuption for each hour in one statistic, and you can store cost for each hour in a different statistic.
that these statistics don’t have the correct metadata
What don’t have the correct metadata?
they don’t look like sensor.daily_consumption but rather sensor:daily_consumption
What are “they”? The colon in the entity id identfies that it is an external statistic, so not something present in the state machine and actively updated, but something for which data is inserted in the past.
when in Energy settings if I try to add a static value to my entity the radio box is not clickable, hence no cost tracking, so I thought that maybe the entity is not setup properly.
If you’re using an external statistic, the option to use a fixed price is not available.
If you use an external statistic for consumption, you must also create an external statistic for cost as well, and select it as “Use an entity tracking the total costs”.
