Sensor to track daily total cost

[dwlfrth]

Hiya 👋
Was looking at a way to have an idea of daily cost including access rate and found a sensor called hilo_energy_total_cost
which seems to have a "bogus" value where it is not accurate (way too low) based on rates and consumption (in my case).
Anybody able to point me at how this sensor is being constructed so that I can find out what is happening ?
I looked at /custom_components/hilo/sensor.py but I can't seems to find the construction of the total one.
Cheers !

[ic-dev21]

IIRC generation is done here(not my code so just a guesstimate):

hilo/custom_components/hilo/sensor.py

Line 176 in d06409a

energy_entity = HILO_ENERGY_TOTAL

Thing is the Total is not an energymeter per se. It's a totaliser over time, that the other two (total_low, total_medium) feed off of.

Here's mine:

It's just the total energy consumed over the lifetime of this particular Hilo install.

You can easily build a template sensor that adds both the total_daily_low and total_daily_medium and that'll give you the total period and reset every night.

We now have a functional devcontainer so play around with it to your heart's content, all contributions welcome. My next area of focus will be a major cleanup/refactor/lint of the python-hilo library. It needs a lot of love to improve both readability and maintainability.

[dwlfrth]

Thank you for the detailled answer ! However, my question was more oriented toward the COST sensor :) sensor.hilo_energy_total_cost :)

[ic-dev21]

Should be this class:

hilo/custom_components/hilo/sensor.py

Line 1035 in d06409a

class HiloCostSensor(HiloEntity, SensorEntity):

[dwlfrth]

It does !

[ic-dev21]

Come over on discord there’s a few (much better) programmers than me on there. This is a nice little project.

[dwlfrth]

I already have a POC that seems to be working, just need to figure out this missing piece so that I could make it into a MR :)

[dwlfrth]

Which Discord are we talking about ?

[ic-dev21]

Which Discord are we talking about ?

https://discord.gg/FqW3mnFT

This should work