warm bone
It seems that my hoymiles inverter/DTU is not able to display the daily total AC energy.
I decided to add a helper entity to sum up the DC values of the 6 ports. I added that helper to the energy dashboard. But it gives me two error messages i can not resolve, nor find information about those.
hidden kelp
Why is the inverter not able to display total energy?
warm bone
Because the information is not available..sadly
hidden kelp
Okay then your best option is to just add all the individual sensors to the energy dashboard
It will correctly sum them for you automatically
warm bone
So entity helpers are no valid way atm to do this ? Six small DC values are so cluttered..and for each an extra prognosis is also a lot of lines...
crude current
You can create a template sensor to combine the entities. It will do the same thing as the “combine the state…” helper, except it gives you the option to set the state class of the new sensor, which needs to be total or total_increasing depending on your use case. Keep in mind that when you do this, the new entity will not have any statistics history. It will start creating history from the time you create it.
Alternatively, you can keep your “combine the state…” sensor and just use customize: in your configuration.yaml to set the state class of that entity.
hidden kelp
you will lose your entity history if you do this