I see a lot of guides around adding different peak and off peak tariff, my bill is split for the first rate @55.570p/kWh and a second rate @23.830p/kWh how would i go about setting this up?
#Energy Sensor struggle on multiple tarrif that are not 'peak' / 'off-peak'
candid reef
bright sequoia
The tariff thing doesn't actually care what the names are (a while ago I helped someone set up a utility meter to count people's steps on a treadmill using their names as a tariff). So in the utility meter you could just call them first rate and second rate etc.
If you want to keep it consistent with the guides you are reading, I'd call the first rate "peak" and the 2nd "off-peak" as peak is the more expensive one
candid reef
ok makes sense, i guess i need to follow something like this:
but he uses templates in yaml and not in the UI will this still work?
bright sequoia
Yeah there's nothing there that needs you to edit yaml
You can use the ui helpers to do all of that
candid reef
if i follow this guide im stuck on the template part how to add this in ui helper
- platform: template
sensors:
utilita_electric_actual_daily_cost:
friendly_name: "Utilita Elec Daily Cost"
unit_of_measurement: '£/kWh'
icon_template: mdi:flash
value_template: >-
{% if states('sensor.daily_consumption') | float > states('input_number.utilitatariff_dailykwh') | float %}
{{ states("input_text.utilitatariffrate2") | round(3) }}
{% else %}
{{ states("input_text.utilitatariffrate1") | round(3) }}
{%- endif %}