#Daily Usage Data Import

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

thorn mural
#

Is it possible to pull in my daily usage from my energy provider, and have that be used as the daily total for the energy dashboard? Alabama Power is my energy company, and as far as I can tell, there is no integration (because they do not provide an API), but I'm able to download my usage statistics (historical daily usage in Kwh. Is there a way to import this and have the dashboard display it? I have some individual devices that are being monitored, so I would want them to show their portion, and then show the untracked amount. I realize this would be pretty manual, but would be nice to be able to see it on the dashboard and store it for future reporting. Thanks for any help!

bleak zephyr
#

Generally only integrations can import, but that's a workaround.

thorn mural
#

Thanks, @bleak zephyr I'll look into it! I assume I would just import from a csv file into a new sensor like sensor.daily_energy_usage and then point the energy dashboard to that sensor as the input.

bleak zephyr
#

it won't make an entity sensor

#

it makes what's called "external statistics"

#

you will be able to select it with the statistics selector, but it won't otherwise exist as an entity

#

because it has no current state