Tibber: energy consumption not updated real time

Energy
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I am a customer of tibber and user of the Tibber Pulse to track my energy consumption in real time here in Germany.

I added Tibber via the official integration but energy consumption in only updated with a lag of several hours, sometimes half a day in energy dashboard. If I reload the integration, up to date data is presented, so it seems to be available.

Is there any way of tweaking the (automatic?) update of the energy entity?

@Danielhiversen I hope it is ok to ping you here. I was digging around a bit with the developer portal and found out that real time consumption doesn’t seem to be enabled, although I am using the Pulse:

{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "home": {
        "id": "myhomeid",
        "features": {
          "realTimeConsumptionEnabled": false
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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If you have a Pulse and the api responds with “realTimeConsumptionEnabled”: false, something is wrong on the Tibber side. You should report it to Tibber.

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Thanks for your answer, I’ll send them a mail so they can fix it.

Might this also affect my initial issue with the update frequency of the energy entity? Any idea?

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Yes, since Home Assistant do not know you have a real time meter, the consumption is not fetched that often.

5

The guys at Tibber seemed to have enabled my real time consumption API access. Now not only my energy dashboard is always up to date, but I also received 13 new sensors including my real time consumption.

So thanks a lot Daniel for your help!

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Hey Daniel,

I have almost the same problem.
My meter is an ITRON ACE3000 (listed on Tibbers white list). It only provides the actual meter-value (no power consumption etc.) every 10-12 seconds.
I can’t see any data in the app and also not via the API explorer.

{
  viewer {
    homes {
      id
      features {
        realTimeConsumptionEnabled
      }
    }
  }
}

returns

{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "homes": [
        {
          "id": "XXXXXX",
          "features": {
            "realTimeConsumptionEnabled": false
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

If I am right I should get “true” as soon as a Pulse is installed?!
Is there any difference between a meter providing live-data and a meter only providing the total meter-value (kWh)?

The support told me I can try this via “lastMeterConsumption” - but this only works with “realTimeConsumptionEnabled”: true - am I right???
And they told me that they can not change the status from “false” to “true” manually.

Thanks for your help!