Odometer as speed curve

[lordgimmel]

I would like to display the odometer of my car as a curve. Now, of course, it is extremely boring to see a value that increases from 10,000 to 10,050 when I have driven 50 km. What makes more sense is a curve that shows how far or fast I drove and when. So if I drive for an hour on the highway at 130 km/h, the line must be at 130 km/h, when I then drive through the city at 50 km/h and when I park at 0. Not at one-hour intervals, of course, but at finer intervals, e.g. 5 minutes.
This is of course interesting for all incremental sensors, such as received internet data, natural gas or water consumption.

I can’t imagine that nobody has thought of this yet, but I haven’t found any good information on it.
With utility meters I always had the phenomenon that the curves fall to 0 at regular intervals and then rise again, forming a kind of sawtooth.

I would like to display the odometer of my car as a curve. Now, of course, it is extremely boring to see a value that increases from 10,000 to 10,050 when I have driven 50 km. What makes more sense is a curve that shows how fast I drove and when. So if I drive for an hour on the highway at 130 km/h, the line must be at 130 km/h, when I then drive through the city at 50 km/h and when I park at 0. Not at one-hour intervals, of course, but at finer intervals, e.g. 5 minutes.
Of course, this is interesting for all incremental sensors, such as received Internet data or natural gas and water consumption.

I can’t imagine that nobody has thought of this yet, but I haven’t found any good information on it.
With utility meters I always had the phenomenon that the curves fall to 0 at regular intervals and then rise again, forming a kind of sawtooth.

Has anyone ever managed to get this right?

[brooksben11 (Ben)]

@lordgimmel

how far or fast I drove

Those are two different things.

@lordgimmel

So if I drive for an hour on the highway at 130 km/h, the line must be at 130 km/h, when I then drive through the city at 50 km/h and when I park at 0.

What you’re describing is the derivative sensor helper. But you’re also just describing speed. I take it that’s not available for your vehicle?

[lordgimmel]

@brooksben11

Those are two different things.

I know, that’s why I mentioned both. The graph could show the distance the car drove in the interval (e.g. 5 min.) (how far) or (better) it could show the scaled value of speed (e.g. 130 km/h), which would be the average of speed in the interval (how fast).

@brooksben11

I take it that’s not available for your vehicle?

No, cars only transmit the entire distance traveled (odometer). Just like a water meter, for example.

[brooksben11 (Ben)]

@lordgimmel

which would be the average of speed in the interval (how fast)

That’s what the derivative would calculate.

[tom_l]

Derivative

[lordgimmel]

Thanks for the derivative hint, but it doesn’t work as expected. Even if the odometer doesn’t change over night, the derivative shows a speed of 25 km/h. I expected derivate to calculate the difference to the odometer value from 5 minutes ago.

  - platform: derivative
    source: sensor.car_odometer
    name: Speed
    round: 0
    unit_time: h
    time_window: "00:05:00"