Unable to reset manual utility meter helpers with no tariff

[gibwar]

The problem

When using a utility_meter helper set up with a "Meter reset cycle" of "No cycle" it is impossible to properly reset the meter to 0 and utilize the "last reset" and "last period" attributes on the helper.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.7.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Core

Integration causing the issue

utility_meter

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/utility_meter/

Diagnostics information

I'm using the utility_meter helper integration to track filter usage on various components based on run time. Using a template sensor to extract an attribute to track with the history stats counter has been working great. When I went to go replace the filter and reset the utility meter I ran in to two problems:

1. The UI to manually reset the utility meter only shows select entities.
2. Even when forced with a specific entity ID manually the reset still does not work.

I suspect the issue may be related to this prior PR, #69612 as there is mention of working with backwards compatibility for 2022.7.

The "Utility Meter: Calibrate" service call with the entity of sensor.hvac_filter_usage works as expected, it is just the "Utility Meter: Reset" service call that fails.

Example YAML snippet

Service call:

service: utility_meter.reset
target:
  entity_id: sensor.hvac_filter_usage

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

I turned on debug logging for the above service call and see

2023-07-19 15:00:38.043 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.utility_meter] resetting meter utility_meter.hvac_filter_usage

but I expected to see a followup log entry from the sensor itself using this format `Reset utility meter <%s>` but did not see anything in the log.

Additional information

To fix the service call UI

ie: change https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/utility_meter/services.yaml#L5-L6 to

reset:
  target:
    entity:

(or if it can support it)

reset:
  target:
    entity:
      - domain: select
      - domain: sensor
        integration: utility_meter

I think the way to fix it is to update the services.yaml file to allow all sensors (since I don't think you can combine filters) from the utility meter integration and to allow checking for itself in the reset logic as a valid value for the tariff check. I haven't made a PR with these changes as I am not fully sure the intent of this code.

To fix the actual reset call (even if unsupported in the UI)

change https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/utility_meter/sensor.py#L539-L543 to

    async def async_reset_meter(self, entity_id):
        """Reset meter."""
        if self._tariff_entity != entity_id or self.entity_id != entity_id:
            return
        _LOGGER.debug("Reset utility meter <%s>", self.entity_id)

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[blalor]

Any updates on this? Still an issue in 2023.9.2.

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[blalor]

Not fixed, Bot.

[pmannk]

Another vote here for changing the utility meter reset behaviour. I have a convoluted set of template sensors and automations trying to work around this issue right now.

[RezzZ]

for those waiting for this to be approved/integrated, the calibrate service can also be used to set the utility meter back to 0 as a workaround.

[gibwar]

It should be in the 2024.4 release from what I gather. While the calibrate service can change the value the "last reset" and "last period" values won't be properly set. :D