Weekly/Monthly Gas Cost Wrong

[Fainbrog]

Hi all,

I think I'm seeing incorrect gas rates and thus costs in the weekly/monthly cost tracker.

Have set up gas_cost tracker, per the instructions, and when looking at the attributes, it's showing very high rate, eg;

Start: '2024-12-04T00:00:00+00:00'
end: '2024-12-04T00:30:00+00:00'
rate: 0.1911
consumption: 0.72934
cost: 0.13937687399999998

So, rate is 19p where-as today is 6.22p or thereabouts.

Target entity is current consumption which shows the correct kWh usage compared to the Octopus app.

Current Accumulative Cost for gas is correct and electricity week/month is fine.

Have I set something up incorrectly? Have adjusted the calorific value, but the issue seems to be the cost rate.

[BottlecapDave]

Hello. The cost entity uses the tariffs that are configured against your account. The total value also includes the standing charge, but based on what you've posted, this isn't it.

What did the current gas rate sensor state at the time? What tariff are you on?

[BottlecapDave]

Oh sorry I just re-read the issue. Cost trackers only support electricity meters, so it's using the electricity cost. I'll make this clearer in the docs. There isn't week/month sensors as people typically use the energy dashboard to track data greater than a day.

[Fainbrog]

Gotcha, thanks, I've not used the Energy Dashboard much, so, will have a look.

I was hoping to be able to add an entity to my own dashboard with monthly cost and average rate/kWh which I've been able to do for electricity - just for the sake of nerding out on data as it's the first year on Tracker and Agile :)

I'll have to have a play with what data I can use/calculate in a template.

Thanks for the reply and for keeping up the development of the integration.