WTH do we have Energy dashboard and no Water dashboard?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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I love that water has been added to the Energy Dashboard, but configuration does not make a lot of sense. 1 cubic foot is 7.48052 gallons. My water meter (and I suspect that of most others in the USA) pulses once per gallon.

It might be possible to create a calculated value that multiplies gallons by 0.1337 to support this unit of measurement, but that does not seem like it should be necessary. The dashboard should support gallons for water.

EDIT:

I added a template sensor to my configuration.yaml file this morning to show ft³ as follows:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Water Total ft³"
        state: "{{ states('sensor.water_total_gallons')|float * 0.1336805462721843 }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "ft³"
        state_class: total_increasing
        device_class: water

Interestingly, it showed up right away. But not only did that show up, but my sensor.water_total_gallons value suddenly showed up as well, which is of course the value I was looking for. I’ve not looked, but this suggests there may be a bug in the code that determines if any valid sensors are available.

I am up and running. I hope this helps others as well. Will also report an issue.

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