I wish a feature to keep track of my consumption so I manually check the different meters inside my rented flat at a regular interval.
As i do not own the flat, i cannot install own meters so the manual way has to work for me.
However i wish i could finde the data inside Home Assistant, especially when having an energy section now.
In my example, i have:
7 radiators with heat meters
3 water meters for cold water
1 water meter for hot water
1 electricity meter
Currently i use a dumb excel file to keep at least a little track of my consumption, i would be happy to have a kind of actual utilities statement in Home Assistant to avoid bad surprises at year change and to maybe have graphs for it.
But how could i enter values for dates in the past? When I enter a value, its entered for the current time.
Also I do not know, how to calculate the power consumption for a year without doing it the “excel-way”. How to tell HA to subtract the earliest value of the year from the latest one available?
I do not want to change device values in the past, i just wish a solution to enter historic data of my household to keep track of consumption. Should be possible I guess?