Hi,
Just checking if it is possible to enter manual data for a sensor?
I’m tracking water consumption for the house and able to plot that on a Grafana chart and display it on a dashboard. I’d like to manually input the water bill amount and also plot on the same dashboard.
I did not see anything close to this so not sure if this functionality is not existent or if I’m not searching the right term.
Thanks.
Why to use a sensor ? I would use an entity “input_number”, so I could easily change it’s value… and track history if needed… but I presume this is not the only option…
The only issue with using either a sensor or a helper is that it will be time and date stamped at the moment you enter it. There is no (easy) way to change this.
To change the date and time you would have to edit the recorder database.
Home assistant does not currently have a method for inserting historical data.
@browetd thanks but seems like this may not work.
@tom_l Thanks Tom, its fine and hopefully as smart meters rolls out and as utility companies makes API available this may not even be as issue in coming years!
There was talk of making a historical data entry integration. Not sure what came of it.
