Maybe you can do an experiment for me | Home Assistant | Page 1

granite sedge May 8, 2023, 5:46 PM

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Ok, can you give me an example of the code to put into my system? then I'll perform that test for you.

static echo May 8, 2023, 7:16 PM

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Pick device that does energy metering - smart plug, and create utility meter from webui - helpers with that entity energy report as source - so UTILITY METER / name / source entity: the one with _energy so (kWh total) / type daily and leave rest as default

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Once you have a data just add both _energy and it's utility meter to energy dashboard and we'll see what's on graph and what's value inside entity - all should be same but recently dashboard graph is random generated number

static echo May 8, 2023, 8:00 PM

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that's my server monitoring plug

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as you see I'm taking entity that does total energy in kWh - _energy

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now to create utility meter in helpers menu

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pick up the entity I just showed on picture 1&2

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and to finish - reset cycle - DAILY

granite sedge May 9, 2023, 6:35 AM

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I've set up the utility meter as you specified. Now we wait.

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Not sure though if I should add this utility meter into the energy dashboard. Isn't the dashboard doing exactly this itself? i.e. doesn't the energy dashboard create a daily-resetting entity for each of the entities we include in the list? Or is that the hypothesis you're trying to test: if you include a utility meter in the dashboard that is already periodically reseting, the results kept for that utility meter will be wrong?

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Oh, and one question, just to be sure: I've now specified the sensor.keuken_quooker_electric_consumption_kwh as the source for this utility meter. Graph for that is every-increasing. This is what you intended, correct?

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Ok, so I added the bottom device sensor.keuken_quooker_verbruik_daily to the list of devices in the energy dashboard (the top one is the source device for this one):

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b.t.w. I think it is very annoying that there is no duplicate-check on this list.

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This is the bottom part of my devices list:

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Just for my curiosity I'm going to add another utility meter exactly like this one, but I'm not going to include that one into the energy dashboard.

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Just trying all possible combinations here to see what makes the difference.

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ok, 1st measurements are in for the daily resetting, included meter:

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We'll speak again in a day 🙂

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granite sedge May 9, 2023, 5:31 PM

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So far the graphs show nothing irregular:

granite sedge May 11, 2023, 5:56 AM

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I see no strange things in those two helpers' graphs. This shows the source in purple, and the both helpers in blue for the last two days. There must be some other factor that makes your graphs go all weird.

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@static echo Do you have any other ideas on things we can test to reproduce your situation? What causes that hole in your source graph?

static echo May 17, 2023, 7:57 AM

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sorry - went back to 2023.4.6 as I don't have spare second - then 2 days ago full of hopes -> 2023.5.3 and today another midnight PV production - exactly at 00:05 so something is triggering but why - all graphs are messed again it's really painful experience to use this dashboard

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