I want to track solely the monthly energy-costs and thought it would be stetup in 5 minutes I have spent hours of research (forum, Chat GPT) and learned the following:
the energy dashboard cant track the consumption of individual devices
there is a feature request for individual consumption
I can use a template-sensor which multiplies energy with cost
however the utility meter entity outputs a value of 0.03 and is collecting data since almost a day. the last valid state is 0.26 which is the same as the template-sensor.
question: Is it normal that the data collection of the utility meter takes several days? would recommend another approach to achieve the goal of collecting the monthly energy costs?
hi there, actually yes. basically a great tool, I think in my usecase it wont help much because i dont want to estimate the power consumption of many entities nor groups. AFAIK it cant be used to calculate the costs in relation to the energy used.
I stopped doing energy stuff recently because it was becoming compulsive (gotta have smartplug in every socket… ) and not telling me much that wasn’t common sense. However, I remember that Powercalc had a global setting enable_autodiscovery: false which made it ignore everything that wasn’t specifically set up in yaml.
But anyway, I had templates to calculate costs for individual devices and although you can’t put them in the official energy dashboard, you can create your own dashboard using cards from it, with other graphs to illustrate costs:
I have spent hours of research (forum, Chat GPT) and learned the following:
) and not telling me much that wasn’t common sense. However, I remember that Powercalc had a global setting enable_autodiscovery: false which made it ignore everything that wasn’t specifically set up in yaml.