Yes, I really like the current energy tab, but it is a pity that you cannot add e.g. Water consumption or other energy sources like heat (warm-water net measured in GJ).
So it would be great to rename the Energy tab to ‘Utility’ and add the possibility to also configure other meters to be used on this overview.
2 Likes
I also vote for the renaming of the energy dashboard to utility, and add the possibility to measure cold water usage and hot water usage (solar boiler or heated water from the central heating).
Also some people don’t have gas but use hot water provided by the city to warm their house’s. So it’s only fair that even when not renaming the dashboard, water should be seen as energy. Just like gas is seen as energy
Utility dashboard to include water sounds great
I also want water to be added to energy/utility dashboard.
Would also be nice if hot water storage was added (for solar PV systems without battery that heat up water).
1 Like
Water Management
@Gamester17
Hard agree with this - I could imagine Heat and Electricity coming together under “Energy”, but “Water Management” would make sense as a seperate section… tools for integrating leak detection and cold water shutoff e.t.c. Also, domestic hot water… How much is there in the tank? Calculate “how many hot baths / showers” have you got left e.t.c. Also some larger premises will have pumped DHW return. This would also be good to integrate… presence detection triggered rather than timer e.t.c.
Energy Management
One function that would be good to see on Home Assistant is energy management to keep consumption below a certain level…
There are several important use cases and integration within the energy dashboard would be a reall good…
e.g. A house has a 20kVA incoming supply… but there are lots of appliances and an EV to be charged… if everything is running at once, there is the potential to overload the incoming supply… have a “pecking order” of devices so that you can modulate the energy consumed according to what is most important. With all of the data being collected by the energy panel, this would seem a logical place to be able to assign some sort of priority order. Moreover, if homes have a UPS backup generator, this energy management becomes more important ensuring in the event of grid failure, you turn off the least essential things. I think this would add real value to have this integrated into the HA core.
Heating Sources
@lexvdpoel
Also - many are connected to the gas grid, some have district heating… others have oil tanks or wood pellet stores… encompassing a broader range of domestic heating fuels would be really useful.
Sankey Diagrams
I love the natty little animation with dots going from place to place, and quantities e.t.c.
Another cool auto-generated diagram would be a “Sankey Diagram”.
Grafana will allow the creation of Sankey Panels:
1 Like
I think the Utitlities dashboard should be for reporting about consumption very much as it does now, possibly with extra features as the Sankey Diagram.
The other tools you mention such as leak detection are indeed water specific and would not be appropriate to stuff in the energy dashboard other than a link to a specific dashboard for that.
The same could be said about electricity and gaz. With electricity peak consumption matters as that potentially cuts off your power consumption, and for heating energy sources (gaz/electricity) you might want to check if your consumption is inline with the outside temperatures (to detect something is your gaz boiler is sub-optimum or something is wrong with your isolation (thinking about open window, isolation no longer properly fixed in the attic, …), etc.).
Maybe the title should be “Utilities Metering and Costs”.
2 Likes
Just adding my vote, i like the features of energy dashboard. I don’t raelly need to see it as a circle on the small chart if that is too much hassle but do want the graph of the water to be added. If only that i would already be happy. Then people could just add it as optional. (well everything is already optional…)
1 Like
+1 for a ‘utilities’ dashboard including water. Setting this up right now and at the moment I’m preferring to create my own utilities dashboard using a custom chart plugin and utility meters just because I can have it all together!
The energy dashboard is nice though; I’d like to see water tacked onto this - especially as the features it implements for energy (import, solar generation, battery storage) have water analoges (import, rainfall, tank storage) which will be of interest to many users with remote properties or self-sufficient ideals.
1 Like
Yes, having all your utilities in the same space would be great! HA’s general idea to support saving the planet should include water usage as well!
1 Like
Adding water would be great! (water usage, rainfall,…)
Now, everyone is re-inventing the wheel (dutch??
) for water… Influxdb, grafana,…
1 Like
I concur, would love to add my water usage in a “Utility” screen.
In related news, the HomeWizard Energy integration has added support for Watermeters in HA 2022.8 so it also groups both Energy and Water under the same platform.
It would be nice to be able to make multiple dashboards for these utilities.
My office is at a different address than my home.
Trough VPN I can control the lighting and measure the energy consumption from home.
I have 2 gas meters, 2 electricity meters and 2 waters meters. I would love 2 dashboards.
Also interesting for people with a second / vacation home.
2 Likes
I also would like to see a utility dashboard which includes water consumption.
I have also previously asked if the energy dashboard can be filtered by “area” since I have more than one location monitored by a single HA instance. This would be a useful addition to a re-vamped utility dashboard.
I as well would be in huge favor to either make it possible to make a second independ energy dashboard or add a location to the energy entities so i can decide what i want to show and make a dashboard out of that.
1 Like
I too would like to be able to add water consumption.
Yes! This would be a great feature!
+1 (already voted).
We need one place for all the utility meters and their costs for the billing cycle/history.
My main interest right now is for water but I can see other utilities that can be measured. For example, monthly internet bandwidth/traffic that leads to different pricing tiers can also be there.
Simply put, as the original author says, rename or create a Utilities page to include everything…
2 Likes
Multi “Energy” dashboards was a better option
3 Likes
Was very sad to learn that I couldn’t add my water consumption to be monitored in the same way gas and electricity is. Would love to see this feature implemented.
2 Likes