Download electricity usage data from ESB and (optionally) upload it to Home Assistant.
WARNING: this is a work in progress. It seems working as expected but probability of bugs is high and probability of documentation is a little low.
If you live in Ireland you likely have electricity provided by an ESB smart meter.
If this is the case, you can access your electricity usage registering following this instructions.
While checking the graph on their website is useful and fun, if you want to get some better insights about your electricity consumption you need to get the data offline for further analysis.
Despite you can download a nice CSV from their website, logging in daily to get the latest results is not really my hobby.
Here there is a small command line tool which can automate this for you. You simply have to register to https://myaccount.esbnetworks.ie, link your smart meter to it, and you can simply run this tool to download your data as frequently as you want.
If you are a Home Assistant user you can also upload this data to your instance and have it ready in the Energy dashboard.
Check the documentation directory for a longer explanation.
Please note that the data they provide is not in realtime. So there is no benefit in running this tool too frequently.
ESB is a registered company in Ireland. I'm not affiliated with them nor they endorsed this tool.
Use this tool at your own risk.
I should test usability a little better: the login process is cumbersome and heavily relies on JavaScript, this tool doesn't include a full browser nor a JavaScript engine. I don't have enough mileage yet to know if error reporting is good enough and how resilient is during platform updates.
This is the longest shot for me, I don't know enough Python to do it.
Since this script can be likely put in a crontab and forget about it there is no big value in a proper integration other than a fancy UI.
But everyone likes a fancy UI...
If you are a Python developer interested in porting this project please let me know.
NOTE: there is already a python library to download ESB data https://github.com/badger707/esb-smart-meter-reading-automation