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These steps are for a minimal configuration and can be adapted to your needs.

Home Assistant Configuration

First, make sure that the line:

utility_meter:

is present in your configuration.yaml file.

Important Note

Home Assistant will only offer the ability to add meters that have already accumulated data. Meters that are at 0 kWh will not appear in the list.

Hilo Integration Configuration

Next, during the initial configuration, check the box "Generate electricity consumption meters".

The entities will be created automatically.

Incorrect Units of Measurement After Creation

It is possible that a unit-of-measurement issue may occur during creation. If this happens, go to the "Developer Tools" menu, then to "Statistics".

If needed, click "Fix issue" on the faulty sensors.

Displaying Statistics in the Energy Dashboard

Next, to configure the Energy dashboard, go to Settings, then Dashboards, and finally Energy.

To add your home’s electricity consumption, use the following two sensors (meter or lightning icon depending on the version):

Using Cost Sensors

For each of the two sensors below:

Click the pencil icon next to them.

For the hilo_energy_total_daily low sensor, select the following rate sensor:

For the hilo_energy_total_daily medium sensor, select the following rate sensor:

It is currently not possible to include network access fees at this time.