Jemena Outlook Energy Sensor

Third party integrations
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It is happy that I found this integration after few years.
But I found it cannot be updated on schedule, and it cannot be added into the energy dashboard, so I have made some changes.

  1. Update it with proper unit_of_measurement, state_class and device_class, so that they can be added into Energy Dashboard
  2. Update it with the async mechanism - Reference to BOM integration
    It is also a good integration for us
    GitHub - bremor/bureau_of_meteorology: Custom component for retrieving weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology.
  3. The config flow is introduced, so, it can be added in UI and no required to update configuration.yaml
  4. It will simulate the refresh button in the portal and update data if needed per schedule
  5. Try to get the Today data as well, it is not used in the Jemena Outlook UI, but it is working.
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By pure coincidence I found this discussion on the same day you revived it (after 2 years!).
I tried installing your fork of the integration but unfortunately I was unable to configure it through the UI.

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Looking into this I noticed that you had included the address of mvandersteen’s original git in your install instructions.
git clone https://github.com/mvandersteen/ha-jemenaoutlook.git

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I’ve also just come across this today, I couldn’t get it to install via hacs but the git clone (with correct address) method worked for me via the UI. Just have to figure out which sensor to add to the energy dashboard now.

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It looks like the Energy Dashboard requires a total kWh reading from the meter. i.e. the total consumption since the meter was installed.
The closest thing I can find from the Jemena integration is the current month’s consumption. Using this will give a large negative reading at the start of each month.
Over the past two days I’ve been having lots of trouble connecting to the portal. I also see that the portal will be replaced in March next year…
https://www.jemena.com.au/myportal
For this reason I’ll probably not put too much effort into this for now and just use the existing entities to get an idea of power usage.

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Yeah, I decided to set it set it to daily total and see what happens.

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thanks both.

  1. just updated the git url… my bad
  2. I used this month’s consumption and it didn’t give me large negative reading (I used it for 3 months)