It would be really awesome if, the energy dashboard would calculate the cost of individual devices same way it calcutates the cost of grid or water currently.
This would be really great for tracking the cost of heating or car charging for example.
It would be really awesome if, the energy dashboard would calculate the cost of individual devices same way it calcutates the cost of grid or water currently.
This would be really great for tracking the cost of heating or car charging for example.
Plus, playing nice with dynamic energy prices that change every hour or so.
Yes exactly. You could choose an entity for the current price or use a static price. Same way you can configure a grid meter for energy dasboard.
I remember a WTH similar to this last time they had one. The argument was if you have more than one power source (Grid + Solar) how do the costs apply to that device?
Personally I’d like to be able to see it, but I don’t know the logistics behind it.
I just wrote a blog entry on how to track the cost of a single device with a utility company that has tariffs. I wanted to know how much my daughters oil hearter was costing us to keep her room at a stable 20c
Sorry if I am misunderstanding the problem though
In my opinion, this is not a problem, if you could choose current price entity, which is different from grid import price entity. This way everyone could make their own template sensors, that calculate the price anyway they want.
If this would be possible. I would make template sensor, that is:
= Import price, if solar produktion is 0
= Export price, if I’m exporting electricity
= (Import power / house power * import price) + (Solar power / house power * export price), if solar produktion is less than my whole house power.
This kinda works, but is way more complicated than nesessary.
Yes you could remove your grid meter. Configure all your device meters as a grid meters. Create a new grid meter helper for the untracked consumption so that the sum of the device meters meters mach the actual grid meter. Also you would have to make helpers to make this workaround work with solar.
Oh I agree this is way over complicated and you would have to put ALL your devices as a consumption device / Grid use. You would also then need to track your actual grid use for each tariff in a utility meter and then to find out how much unmanaged energy use you had for each tariff you would have to add up all the managed values for that tariff then subtract that from the total energy use fron the grid for that tariff. It makes my head spin thinking about it. I know this is not what the energy board was designed to do but that the problem, people want it and are shoe horning in solutions so they can get the cost and tariff use for indavidual devices. Which to me means this Energy Dashboard needs to be over hauled to be customized. Allow indavidual devices to also track costs, the programming is already there for Grip consumption you just need to aloow indavidual device also to track costs…