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jrfernandes / ontario_energy_board

Home Assistant component that installs a sensor with the current energy rate for Ontario energy companies
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Integrate with Energy / Utility Meter #14

Closed THX2112 closed 1 year ago

THX2112 commented 1 year ago

I've been trying to integrate this with the Utility Meter and Energy functions in HA so that they can apply the proper TOU rate to objects that are being monitored for energy usage.

How can the rates from Ontario Energy Board be used as the TOU rates within HA so they can be used by Utility Meter and the Energy page?

I've gone through tonnes of posts about setting this up, but there's nothing specific for Ontario Energy Board and it's not working for me so there's something I'm not understanding or missing.

Has anyone set this up this way, and how did you do it?

jrfernandes commented 1 year ago

Were you able to install the component by following the instructions in the README?

THX2112 commented 1 year ago

It installs fine. There's nothing there that's relevant to my question.

I wanted to know how other people have it configured so the rates from Ontario Energy Board be used as the TOU rates within HA so they can be used by Utility Meter and the Energy page.

jrfernandes commented 1 year ago

Once you have the integration installed and added your energy company, you should be able to go to your Energy dashboard, and when adding consumption entities, you can use the option "Use an entity with current price" and select the newly added sensor.

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THX2112 commented 1 year ago

Thanks. That gave me the clues I needed to fix some of the issues. It's somewhat working now in the Energy dashboard, but still a lot of weirdness. I'll figure it out. Thanks again!