Request for Monthly Consumption

[ksya]

Request for Monthly Consumption

[RobBie1221]

Like this: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/utility_meter/ ?

[Salvora]

Yeah, kinda like this. Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that and see how it will go but I need to try that for a monthly cycle which will take time. Though, I was expecting something like a monthly gas usage sensor.
Configuration is set like that

#UTILITY METER
utility_meter:
  gas:
    source: sensor.nefit_year_total
    cycle: monthly

[RobBie1221]

The yearly total is directly fetched from the thermostat. There is no command to directly get monthly usage, the app calculates that manually from daily usage. It's not very straightforward to fetch this data and I think not really needed as the above does the job as well.

[ksya]

Actually we can retrieve this data: https://github.com/marcelrv/nefit_easy_protocol/blob/fa339e56528bf60794315046e42ed737236308db/gasusage.md

[RobBie1221]

As mentioned, we can retrieve data to calculate it, but it's not very straightforward.

Fetching the gasusage as in that link potentially gives a huge record as it contains the whole history. Then it needs to be parsed to filter out the days of the current month and accumulate the usage. Alternatively, single records can be fetched, but then first /ecus/rrc/recordings/gasusagePointer need to be fetched and then the relevant records for the month and it should be accumulated.

For the yearly usage, it's just one endpoint that is fetched. If someone wants to put effort in making this, it can be made, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort as the utility_meter does (in my opinion) exactly what is requested.

[ksya]

I agree, I'm not going to put effort in this.

[Salvora]

This seems to be more complicated than I thought. Using utility meter with a few lines of configuration seems more efficient.