Utility meter changes

Feature Requests
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Hi,

I suggest to move utility_meter in to the sensor domain. The main reason is actually the front end. I like to use a sensor card for my utility meter. In general I believe it would become more flexible as more things are done for sensors than utilities.

Second issue: Last night, for the first time my home assistant died, without me fiddling with it. I just pulled the power and it went up. I believe there could be a bit more resiliance built in, in this case I’m using a shelly 3EM for power. As the 3EM didn’t hung it has all the data, when I look in the sensors feeding the utilities I have they have stepped on as nothing happened, but the utility_meter lost the data. I believe with some redesign the utility meter could recover to the current state, even if the data during the failure is lost.

Best Regards
Tobe

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You can use template sensors to pull in the state and/or attributes of the utility_meter. Then you get the best of both worlds :wink:

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Hi, I did do that as a work-around, it’s just so clean to have two entities with exactly the same content.