Near Real-Time Amber Electric Usage Charts

[melvanderwal]

Usage charts in Home Assistant for Amber Electric pricing

This package is used in Home Assistant with the Amber Electric integration to estimate usage in kilowatt hours and dollars. Example charts using the ApexCharts Card HACS frontend integration are included.

Using prices from the Amber Electric integration, import and export prices are recorded at the end of each 30 minute period, as well as the cost/profit for each 30 minute period. This means that shortly after that big price spike, you can find out what you've earned with reasonable accuracy. Be your own upstream provider!

Prerequisites:

• The Amber Electric Home Assistant integration.
• A Home Assistant inverter integration which provides import and export power (or a power sensor from which import and export can be derived).
  • The example code uses the GoodWe integration.
• The ApexCharts Card HACS frontend integration.
  • This integration is not required if you choose to build your own charts with a different integration.

Read more in the GitHub Repo.

I don't plan on doing much more with this, it works well for my needs - feel free to take it and adapt it to yours. Charts are intended as a starting point - you do you! Happy to answer questions.

Charts with Blatantly Ripped Off Amber Style

Combined Energy and Cost Charts