"total_daily_energy" not showing correct values?

ESPHome
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I’m hoping someone can help me figure out why my “Daily Usage” sensor in my ESPHome config below has increases that do not seem to correlate to the “Total Usage” sensor.
I have also setup “utility_meter” sensors in my main HA configuration.yaml and these seem to increase in correlation to my “Total Usage” sensor.

sensor:
  - platform: pulse_meter
    pin: GPIO5
    name: "${device_name} Flow Rate"
    id: water_meter_rate
    unit_of_measurement: "Litre/min"
    icon: "mdi:water"
    timeout: 10s  # Reset flow rate to 0 if no pulses for 10 seconds
    filters:
        - multiply: 0.00263157  # (380 pulses per L)
        - throttle: 10s
    total:
      name: "${device_name} Total Usage"
      icon: "mdi:chart-line"
      unit_of_measurement: "Litre"
      id: water_meter_total
      accuracy_decimals: 2
      device_class: water
      state_class: total_increasing
      filters:
        - multiply: 0.00263157  # (380 pulses per L)
        - throttle: 10s

  - platform: total_daily_energy
    name: "${device_name} Daily Usage"
    icon: "mdi:calendar"
    unit_of_measurement: 'Litre'
    accuracy_decimals: 2
    id: water_meter_daily
    power_id: water_meter_rate
    filters:
      # Update at most every 60 seconds
      - throttle: 10s

In the scenario below I turned on the tap at 8:16am this morning and you can see all the sensors increase to reflect the usage…
But my ESPHome based “Daily Usage” seems to have other random increase which I do not understand :frowning:

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The usage also doesn’t match so must be something wrong in my config or understanding how this feature works?

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2

It’s meant for converting Power readings to Energy using an integral, so it’s not at all applicable for your use-case.

As a background, here’s what it’s doing:

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You could do that in ESPHome manually. Just store the value every day at 0:00. And make a template sensor which subtracts that value from the total sensor.

But I would just do this in HA :slight_smile: