Utility meter.... missed old last period

I have a utility_meter that resets every month. I usually just pull the data out in the first week or too from last month by looking at the last_period attribute. I forgot last month to do that… so its now overwritten.

Is there any way I can find out what the old meter value was?

There is only 2w worth of raw data collected in the meter, so it only goes back to the 26th oct…

To avoid this again is there a way of keeping these values long term?

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The utility meter should have statistics data retained indefinitely. Create a ‘statistics’ card on your dashboard and graph that entity’s daily or monthly data.

Perfect. Thank you. That worked a treat!