WTH does the cost of electricity reset after a system restart, when the energy sensor it is using to calculate does not?

[tom_l]

@Aephir

I assumed that HA just multiplies the two to values get the cost, and that the cost sensor (second graph in first post) is just the result of setting this up in the Energy Dashboard UI (HA creating it). It appeared and was named the same as the energy sensor, just suffixed with _cost,

Yes it does multiply the current price by the kWh used, but it does not create a sensor. Not sure where you are getting that from.

In fact the difficulty of getting the the results from the Energy dashboard are the subject of a few WTH posts. People want these results as entities. But they don’t exist now. So you must be creating it some other way.