Powercalc Utility Meters - Tariff support?

[MrPabloUK]

Hi,

I'm currently planning to migrate some of my manually created integration sensors & utility meters over to Powercalc but I'm not sure if there's currently support for tariffs.
Right now my electric billing is split into peak and off-peak which home assistant is handling well. Does Powercalc support this, and if not can it be added? Happy to perform testing!

[bramstroker]

@pgwg-uk I did not use Tariffs myself yet. Could you share your configuration/setup how you do it in HA?
I will have a look if it can be integreted in powercalc.
Powercalc under the hood also creates integration and utility_meters (that are core HA components), so it should be possible somehow.

[MrPabloUK]

Hi @bramstroker, below is an example of one of my group configurations, followed by the config for the standard home assistant utility meter.

- platform: powercalc
create_group: All Lights
entities:
- entity_id: switch.shelly1_941a31
name: Liz's Lamp
fixed:
power: 3.3
- entity_id: switch.shelly1_944759
name: Paul's Lamp
fixed:
power: 3.3
- entity_id: light.office_main_light
name: Office Light
fixed:
power: 9.5
- entity_id: switch.kitchen_light_a
name: Kitchen Light A
fixed:
power: 15
- entity_id: switch.kitchen_light_b
name: Kitchen Light B
fixed:
power: 15
- entity_id: switch.shelly1_9416b8
name: Hall Light
fixed:
power: 8.8
- entity_id: switch.conservatory_light
name: Conservatory Light
fixed:
power: 5.9
- entity_id: light.bathroom_lights
power_sensor_id: sensor.bathroom_lights_power
- entity_id: light.main_light
power_sensor_id: sensor.main_light_power
- entity_id: light.landing_light
power_sensor_id: sensor.landing_light_power
- entity_id: light.living_room_light
power_sensor_id: sensor.living_room_light_power
- entity_id: light.second_bedroom_light
power_sensor_id: sensor.second_bedroom_light_power

utility_meter:
lighting_daily:
source: sensor.all_lights_energysensor
cycle: daily
tariffs:
- peak
- offpeak

[bramstroker]

I will see what I can do. Could you please create a feature request in the issues section? That's my backlog so I don't forget.
I already did some work on it, but I need to refactor a lot of code and also needs thorough testing.

[bramstroker]

Support for tariffs are added. Released in v0.19.0-beta.1. Are you also able to test?

[MrPabloUK]

Hi, I should be able to complete testing this weekend, thanks!

[MrPabloUK]

@bramstroker , testing has been completed with v0.19.0-beta.1, tariff meters created as expected and working well, thanks!