Energy Dashboard: "Untracked Consumption" - Issues when only daily grid readings are available

[financelurker]

Firstly about my HA instance:

Core 2024.9.0
Supervisor 2024.08.0
Operating System 13.1
Frontend 20240904.0

With the last HA update the "untracked consumption" feature, handled in this pull-request, got released.

What I found so far, which I see as "issue":

1. I didn't see an option to disable it... (although I can manually disable the "Untracked consumption" entity in the bar diagram)
2. When you receive your grid energy consumption just on a daily base (e.g. your utilities provider only offers a daily reading), the graph gets more or less un-readable -> see
   It would be a blessing if this would be handled differently. I could imagine that the daily reading is divided by 24 and equally spread to each hour (in the hourly view).
3. When there are days, where the utility provider does not provide consumption for a whole day, the consumed energy measured by entities gets displayed as negative "untracked consumption" -> see the first day in
   The same thing applies also to the hourly reading, for slots where no consumption readings are available (the negative "untracked consumption" bars), see

As long as point 2. and 3. are not addressed (for users with daily readings) it would be, imho, good for affected users to the possibility to disable this functionality (point 1.), because it get's annoying to always have to disable the "Untracked consumption" entity to get the same diagram as before the release of this functionality...

What are your thoughts on this?

[financelurker]

@karwosts since the pull-request was created by you, I'll directly address you here: What are your opinions on this? (leaving the technical complications on the side for now and possibly only focus on the user-experience part to start with)

[financelurker]

I opened a new discussion in the HA community forum for this.