Hello there,
I’m using a template sensor to compute the consumed electricity in my house. The data is provided by the P1 port of my smart reader via Toon (custom component by cyberjunkie). However, the P1 port only supplies the night-tariff and day-tariff separately. I would like to see the total consumption, that is why is resorted to a template sensor.
This is what the code for the template sensor looks like:
- platform: template
sensors:
toon_p1_power_use_total:
unit_of_measurement: 'kWh'
value_template: '{{ states.sensor.toon_p1_power_use_cnt_low.state|int + states.sensor.toon_p1_power_use_cnt_high.state|int }}'
This all seems to work fine. But there is a strange thing going on; when I restart Home-Assistant the value drops to zero/unknown. After the restart it works fine. However, this screws up the way the history graph is displayed:
The Toon does provide the total gas usage as displayed in the graph above the electricity usage. The data of provided by Toon seems to be persistent (e.g. is not reset to zero unknown each time Home Assistant restarts).
Any clue on how to fix the graph? Thanks in advance!