WTH does the energy panel not provide Weekly totals

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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My day to day consumption is quite varying, but I am pretty sure that week to week comparisons are more meaningful:

  • On average I make the same number of dish washing sessions a week;
  • On average we have the same amount of laundry washes a week, but not always on the same days of the week. It depends on the weather (if the weather is good on saturday and/or sunday, we do all clothes on those two days, but more on Sunday if Saturday was rainy, and on very rainy weekends we spread them over the next week to have them dry in-house);
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So WTH can’t I see the history shown as weekly totals when other periods are proposed (monthly, daily).

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Are you sure it doesn’t work?

I added rate figures for electricity and gas, and now the cost total at the bottom of the Energy Dashboard changes the subtotals & total to reflect whether it is displaying a day or a week (and of course updates depending on which one is shown).

I have no idea how to configure that kind of complex math, so it damn sure wasn’t me who did it! :grinning:

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On energy dashboard you can choose periods like “day” (shows hours), “week” and “month” (shows days) and “year” (shows months). When you select it you see totals under “Sources”

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When I select day, I get hourly bars and I am comparing hourly consumptions:

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When I select week, I get daily bars and I am comparing daily consumptions:

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When I select month, I still get daily totals:

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And when I select year, I get monthly totals:

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I would like to see weekly totals because my consumption from Mondays to Sundays will be more stable than my day-to-day consumption.
Ideally I would be able to see the weekly totals for a quarter (about 13 weeks), or a year (52 weeks) to see how my weekly consumption evolves.
(And then I could compare that to the weeks of the previous quarter or previous year).

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Right, but if you scroll down below your last graph, to the Sources section, do you see those cost totals?

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For the last graph I get the total for the entire year in “Sources”

When selecting week, I get a total for the selected week in “Sources”.

What I am interested in is getting a bar for each week in the graph so that I can see the change one week to the other.

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Ah! So each data point represents one week, and the time span is months or a year?

That would be nice!!

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Yes! Exactly because I think that would be more flat and meaningful.

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And if we could combine that with average temperatures and UV levels, we could calculate the relationship between heating costs and the weather!

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Not sure we need weekly averages for comparing temperatures with consumption.
I think having power consumption of (a part of) certain energies divided by the temperature difference is more than a WTH suggestion.

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Maybe update you first post a little. I was also confused about what you want.