Stop influxdb data being updated on restart / HA update

[arfond (Arfon)]

Hi

Slightly related to this:

Extracting attributes to new sensor

Hello. My 1st post as a HA user, after many years of Openhab use. I have to say I wish I switched earlier - HA so much quicker and easier to use, especially with Z2M integration. Thank you all. I’m trying to extract the ‘Last period’ attribute from a utility sensor. Using the Template editor (which is excellent) I can extract attributes with a single word, but not those with a space. The attributes of the sensor below, plus some lines from template editor I’ve been trying. Attributes Source …

I have a sensor setup to capture hourly, daily and monthly energy use. I’ve setup a visual in Grafana and it’s revealed a slight issue. It looks like whenever I restart HA, which is fairly often with updates, I get data passed to influxdb for these sensors at the time of restart. Example below, where is still get the correct total at 00:00, but another value when restart occured.

Any advice on how to stop this happening?

Thanks

Arfon

[Marty56]

I have also noted this behaviour which makes the influxdb integration practically worthless.

The only (bloody) workaround I have figured out, is to create Appdaemon app and write to the influxdb via the Rest Api of influxdb.
You have to use the Rest Api because the influxdb python lib is not working anymore, at least for the 1.x version of influxdb.

All in all not a great solution.