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Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Thursday 14 June 2018 9:07
by chello
Hi.
I would sugest to create energy meter device with 3 tarifs. I need that for energy consumption control in G13 Tauron tarif. Maybe just a small modification P1 meter would be enough - I don't know how do it.

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Friday 06 September 2024 0:55
by voyo
I agree with this request, some of us need more sophisticated electricity tariffs.
Beside simple "peak tariff" and "off-peak tariff" often there are other rates, like:
'morning peak'
'afternoon peak'
'daytime peak'
'nighttime off-peak'
'24/7'
'other hours of the day'

I have a tariff with three different rates, and I'm pretty sure I am not alone here. Tendency is to more complicate our electricity bills...
How can we address this ? Adding more fields beside T1 and T2 should be not complicated ?

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Friday 06 September 2024 10:53
by willemd
You can always load the tariffs yourself onto a separate device and then do the multiplication using a dzVents script to get your costs.
I do this for my hourly tariffs (although today the enever setup can do this?)

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Friday 06 September 2024 16:28
by voyo
ok.. but with this approach I can also just go and use Excel spreadsheet and do my calculations there :P
It will be not integrated with anything, no graphs, no Domoticz reports, not visible in energy dashboard.

Having support for more that just 2 tariffs (T1 & T2) is crucial to keep Domoticz flexible and still user-friendly.

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Saturday 07 September 2024 15:55
by gizmocuz
I have a dynamic tariff that changes every hour.
As long as you can create a device that has the actual price, you can specify this in the settings/meter under '(Dynamic) Price calculation'
Works quite nice actually
I set Domoticz in 'simple' mode, because I don't care anymore about T1/T2/Tx
The only thing I care about is the realtime graph, and the day/week/month/year and price

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Sunday 08 September 2024 18:04
by voyo
Ok, interesting. As long as I could use 'dynamic tariff' to accommodate my T1/T2/T3 I'm ok with that.
But TBH, I dunno how to setup this.. is it available only from recent Domoticz version ? I dont see such settings in my deployment (Im trying to avoid upgrading as long as possible, every time Im upgrading I have issues with something :/ )
I'm using my own plugin to connect to DDS238-7 (3phase meter) over modbus, so I will have to add support dynamic tariff, but this should be not a problem.

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Sunday 08 September 2024 23:26
by waltervl
Dynamic prices is indeed introduced in latest releases 2024.7 I believe.
See wiki for basic instructions https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Applicati ... alculation

You can create a dummy custom sensor and fill that with the current price. Then use that dummy custom sensor to calculate the energy costs (electricity and gas).

Re: Energy meter with 3 tarifs

Posted: Monday 09 September 2024 7:15
by gizmocuz
voyo wrote: Sunday 08 September 2024 18:04 Im trying to avoid upgrading as long as possible, every time Im upgrading I have issues with something :/ )
Maybe you should update more frequently....

There is also a backup made before upgrading, and you could also make a complete backup of the folder, so you can easily restore if needed