Energy Dashboard with base fee + InfluxDB

[junior patio]

Hey everyone 🙂

I’m using the Home Assistant Energy Dashboard, but as far as I know there’s no way to include a monthly base fee.

What I’d like to achieve:

Track consumption (kWh) and costs (€)

Costs should include both:

monthly base fee

price per kWh

Show values for day, week, month, year

Send all data to InfluxDB for further analysis

My question:
👉 Is there a better solution for this (maybe a HACS integration), or is the only way to build it manually with templates + utility_meter?

Thanks in advance for your tips 🙏

[sly idol]

A tariff sensor doesn't work for you?

[junior patio]

Is there already something like a ready-to-use tariff sensor that I could use?

[agile sentinel]

I'm a bit confused by that suggestion myself. Don't think there's anything that includes a monthly base fee.

[sly idol]

Template sensor that incorporates a calculation

base fee would just be the base fee / number of days in the month if you want/need daily changing amounts

that's all I did

works fine, calc is close to my meter

[agile sentinel]

Yeah so that's the question:

is the only way to build it manually with templates + utility_meter

I would say yes, that's the only way.

[sly idol]

Well I wasn't sure if they had a tariff sensor or not already

[junior patio]

So far I haven’t managed to get it working. Just having consumption values doesn’t help much if the base fee is missing – that’s an important part of the costs for me.
Most of what I tried so far only throws errors 😅
Do you guys maybe have a template example I could just fill in with my own values (base fee + price per kWh)? That would really help 🙏

[neat carbon]

I'm also interested in that template, did you have any luck?

[fathom grove]

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-daily-fixed-charge-in-energy-dashboard/802173/6

this question has come up a lot. But the energy dashboard was never meant to track total costs, only variable ones