Energy Dashboard - Energy Import

[JensenNick]

Using sensor.energy_import as input sensor in the Energy Dashboard has caused failure of the sensor 'Energy Import Cost' which HA has created - when HA is rebooted. The input sensor is created as a platform sensor.

  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.power_import
    name: "Energy Import"
    unique_id: energy_import
    round: 6
    unit_prefix: k
    unit_time: h
    method: left

[JensenNick]

I've asked about the behavior of the sensor created by HA in the HA forum. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/platform-integration-sensor-crashing-in-energy-dashboard/681769

[JensenNick]

I have added Energy Utility Meters to all of the platform energy sensors. This seams to be the solution recommended by the HA community.

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https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-i-solved-a-reset-of-an-integral/540322/2

[Roving-Ronin]

@JensenNick of your using the utility_meter and also wanting (it appears) to have the cost of all those sensors (import / export / battery and even different tariff periods), you'd be better looking at the energy_utility integration.

Works like the utility_meter but with a few more functions to allow defining from_grid or to_grid and calling a sensor with the energy cost (import or export)

Easy as to implement just like a utility_meter but automatically creates all the cost / compensation sensors.

Add in tariffs and you end up with tracking for every single tariff type and cost (& and then add hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly versions). In the Energy Dashboard (or other cards) then allows easily seeing peak/shoulder/offpeak energy and costs and same for battery.

Also works for gas and water btw, not just electricity.

[Roving-Ronin]

If of interest see: https://github.com/zeronounours/HA-custom-component-energy-meter

[JensenNick]

of your using the utility_meter and also wanting (it appears) to have the cost of all those sensors

No, the input for the Energy Dashboard is a platform: integral sensor. Nothing fancy at all and the input is from the Huawei Solar integration. I've tried to fix this without any success. The issue isn't related to the "Huawei Solar PEES package".

  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.power_import
    name: "Energy Import"
    unique_id: energy_import
    round: 6
    unit_prefix: k
    unit_time: h
    method: left

[JensenNick]

I will leave this post as "open" but "locked", so it appears in the "open section" for users to see more easily.