Utility Meter in Home Assistant
utility_meter
part of Home Assistant since 0.87
Utility Meter is an official Home Assistant integration for Helper and Sensor. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Helper
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 85,098 (12.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Select, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @dgomes
- Python packages
cronsim==2.7
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Utility Meter.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Utility Meter in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #169598
- open Reported problem #165244
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #177603
- fixed in 2026.5.3 Bug fix #170962
- fixed in 2026.5.3 Bug fix #170957
- fixed in 2025.11.2 Bug fix #155648
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration