With this PR, which was deployed in Home Assistant 2023.2, the _accumulated sensors were removed and it was suggested to replace them with IoTaWatt Integrators, which are more accurate. I’m trying to do that, but I don’t seem to have access to them in HA. If I create an output that is just the .pos of my integration, that gives two sensors in HA. The first is the power in watts, and the second is energy in wh, but that seems to just be a daily total and resets at midnight. I want a running total of energy used.
I’m just trying to get the total energy consumption in watt hours so I can create a sensor to show what my electric meter should read. I know I could use a HA integral on the power, but would rather use the IoTawatt integrator if that’s more accurate.
If you look for instance at Ducted_AC (which has its own CT), it shows a power sensor and two energy accumulation sensors, with one being a total accumulation and the other a day value by the looks of it.
I’m using the total accumulation value in HA Energy Dashboard.
Above that is Aircon, which is a calculated field in IotaWatt, adding up all the aircon circuits we have. It also has total accumulated and daily energy values.
For anyone else with this problem, how I ended up fixing it is to create a “helper” in HA. When you add a helper there’s a Utility Meter type. I left the default options which are Net consumption and Delta values both being off, and meter reset cycle of No cycle.
That gives me a counter that only increases, and doesn’t reset to 0 every night. That’s enough if you just want a count of how many kWh you’ve used, but I also wanted to show what my actual electric meter should be reading. So then I just made a second helper which is using this template: {{ ((states('sensor.house_total_energy_sum') | float / 1000.0) + 90334.3) | round(1) }}
Where sensor.house_total_energy_sum is the helper I made first, and 90334.3 was the difference between that value and my electric meter’s current value.
