Ingesting of energy sensors, energy data entry?

Energy
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I want to create a dashboard where I can visually compare the historical consumption data against the entity status history in a chart.
series 1: historical hourly energy consumption totals
series 2 to n: historical on/off % values for various tuya lights and switches

I cannot create my energy consumption as sensor with history because i get the data from a provider xml which is always 1 day old. I cannot injest it on the day it happens.

I can however load the daily/hourly names and values into homeassistant as a sensor or an entity. I’m not sure what the sensor / entity should look like in order to be used to create series 1 above.

Should I add each day / hour as an attribute to a single entity? Can attributes as dates be parsed into a graph series later?
Should I just load the whole day/hour/totals as JSON into a state attribute? Can that be parse into a graph later?

2
3

I read this just now. Thank you for the reference I can check. I don’t like the idea of manually sending events from the devtools. The comments seem to suggest it wasn’t possible to do via automation/scripts. Is that right?

4

:man_shrugging:

Not sure I don’t use it, just remembered the topic from the other day.

5

thanks let me try it out.

Do you know what poster might means by “send events” in this description?

It looks quite simple - you just have to send a bunch of events like this, with your entity id (which should be already created in system), state value, and last_updated timestamp.

   event_data:
     entity_id: sensor.3c71bf4822b8_i2saccoef
     new_state:
       entity_id: sensor.3c71bf4822b8_i2saccoef
       state: "1.4"
       last_updated: "2022-07-25T23:00:25.082925+00:00"```
6

Ask them in the other topic.

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