Home energy users cannot see or act on all their energy data
Home Assistant users struggle to bring all household energy sources and device readings into a useful dashboard. Gaps in supported resource types and integrations can leave them building custom dashboards or integrations themselves; missing device telemetry cannot always be fixed in software. A related set of signals describes the separate effort of comparing tariffs and planning around changing rates, while general household spending is outside this core problem.
For home Assistant users tracking household energy. Mentioned from Nov 2023 to Mar 2026 on Bluesky, product forums, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
8 different people described this problem in 6 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 5.3/10
- Frequency
- 7.9/10
- Willingness to pay
- 3.5/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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My issue is that Energy dashboard assumes the only energy that can be consumed is electricity, water or gas
While there’s not really a good way to do this strictly in the energy dashboard, you can make your own custom energy dashboard by reusing all the cards, and then you can add additional statistics-graph cards of the other resources like consumed pellets you want to track
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 2 product ideas with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 5 places to find your first customers
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks