#Hi all, I'm looking to help support a
young mulch
Does your integration provide live data, or import historical data? Those are the two main types of energy meter integrations.
young mulch
And what is not working correctly, are you asking specifically about the Energy dashboard in HA, or just about sensors more generally?
willow monolith
it's when we're trying to set up the integration on start-up, we try to update HA with the entity we're expecting it to have, but I believe we're not passing the right config object, so we're missing a (or many) key(s) to the configuration of the UTILITY_DOMAIN.
right now, it complains that we're missing the CONF_TARIFFS key, which I tried to manually add it, but then other problems arose and that's why I stopped and tried to understand the architecture to understand what should be in there.
young mulch
Oh, are you trying to use the utility_meter domain?
That might not be the right thing to do.
willow monolith
Yes, that is what we were doing. What would be the right thing then ?
young mulch
I could be wrong here, but I had thought that utility_meter was a helper, and not meant to be provided by other integrations.
willow monolith
(and thank you for your time, really appreciate it 😉 )
young mulch
I think integrations are just supposed to provide sensors
wary quail
You want the sensor platform 😉
willow monolith
Well we provide sensors and the "utility" is part of the sensor. Not sure what the utility_meter domain used to provide...
So maybe you're right, but can someone tell me why utility_meter used to be used for ? maybe it's just a decommisionning process that we need to do...
wary quail
you are confusing integration domains and platforms
willow monolith
probably... I'm not very familliar with HA concepts yet...
I'll try to dig out more information from the folks that worked on the integrations... I feel like you folks just pointed me to what this might have been used for.
thank you 🙂
willow monolith
ok, so I've confirmed a bit what this used to do; it was adding into the energy management dashboard all the entities that were added by our integration ( sorry, the term might be wrong here). So, if I had 15 tracked device and my grid meter, the house meter was added to the grid part and all 15 device consumptions were added to the energy trackers.
this stopped working a while back, but without major failures. It just that I'm the only one looking into the logs and having weird stuff happening 😂