Price for Austria

[bigwindow82]

Hello,
Would it be possible to include the electricity price for Austria as well?
There are public APIs available for this. For example: https://apis.smartenergy.at/market/v1/price

[ohAnd]

Should be possible ... are these the final customer prices or without tax and fees? (maybe to make it visible in dashboard)

[bigwindow82]

These prices include 20% VAT as provided by the exchange (e.g. EPEXSPOTAT), but do not yet include the provider's fee.
The data is structured as follows:

tariff: Tariff name (string), e.g. 'EPEXSPOTAT'
unit: Unit of the value, e.g. 'ct/kWh'
interval: Validity of each price entry in minutes (integer), e.g. 15
data.date: Local timestamp from which the price is valid
data.value: Price including 20% VAT (decimal), e.g. 12.592

[ohAnd]

Ok, It's integrated in develop see #47 .

Regarding the info for end customer prices I will check what is the best way also in comparison to tibber and akkudoktor source.

[bigwindow82]

Great, thanks – that was really quick! Unfortunately, I still have the issue that my household consumption is shown in kW by the sensor. So I had to create a new sensor that measures the consumption in W. However, the new sensor doesn't have enough data yet to thoroughly test it in Home Assistant, for example, to use it.

[ohAnd]

yep, but then maybe you can define together with #46 a useful issue for the first start - seems you have both the same "issue" ... maybe something in direction ... if not enough data (0 wattage) for the most of the requested time (today and tomorrow 2 weeks before) then using default fix load prediction set or last 2 dyas or something ...

[Joebinator]

smartenergy_at seems to be not available most of the time, maybe there is another api for austrian users.. awattar?

[ohAnd]

what means most of the time? do you have a log?

the price interface needs also for other sources some caching, on myself I had recently some drops from tibber --- so if smartenergy is reachable only a few times a day then it should be for the target use case (prices aer fixed after 1 pm for next 24 h) with cached infos ok...

[Joebinator]

sorry for being not specific.

Well the API is often not available, i also have it implemented as a test inside home assistant to verify that every other day the data is just not available from say 12:00 til 18:40 (it's random, maybe technically failure on their part)
nonetheless it seems not so reliable is i whised it to be (and others too i guess) because EOS wants to charge from grid all the time at my instance when the price for electricity is not available.

[ohAnd]

ok... understood

for smartenergy and for all the other price sources I refactored the error handling and retrival - means if there was an successful retrieval then at least for 6 hours there could be an error by the source - after then it will be switched to default values

maybe with this we can catch most of this unreliable situations

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for the idea with an additonal source like awattar please raise a new issue - incl. is there a need to also have the adding of fix fees and dyn taxes/ fees