Context
Today, Gladys already allows managing energy tariffs in the Energy Monitoring module, with the ability to define:
- peak hours / off-peak hours
- multiple time slots in a single day
- different types of days or tariffs, for example Tempo / blue / white / red days
This is great for energy monitoring and cost calculations.
However, in my view a more global integration is missing in Gladys: the house itself does not “know” which tariff it is in at time T.
Need
The idea would be to associate an energy tariff with a house, directly in:
Settings → Houses
Somewhat on the same principle as what already exists for the alarm settings of each house.
The objective would be that Gladys can know at all times, for each house:
- whether it is currently in peak hours
- in off-peak hours
- in a specific time slot
- on a Tempo blue / white / red day
- more generally, in the current active tariff
Why this would be useful
This would allow exploiting this information natively in scenes, without having to recreate all the logic manually with:
- schedules
- multiple conditions
- special days
- intermediate variables
- external automations
Usage examples:
- run certain appliances only during off-peak hours
- block an energy-hungry scene during a red day
- adapt an electric vehicle’s charging according to peak/off-peak/Tempo
- trigger heating, the hot water tank or other uses depending on the actual current tariff
- simply display in Gladys the house’s current tariff state
Functional proposal
Option 1: direct configuration at the house level
In Settings → Houses, add a section like:
Energy pricing
- Enable tariff management for this house
- Select the mode:
- Peak / Off-peak (HP / HC)
- Peak / Off-peak multi-slot (HP / HC multi-slot)
- Tempo / colored days
- other future model
- Define or link the time slots and day types
Option 2: link with the Energy Monitoring meter
A probably more coherent approach would be to allow linking an energy meter to the house.
For example:
- in the house configuration, select the associated main meter
- Gladys retrieves from this meter the configuration already present in Energy Monitoring
- Gladys automatically deduces the house’s current tariff
This would avoid duplicating settings already entered in the energy tariffs.
What Gladys could expose next
Once configured, Gladys could make available for each house information usable in scenes, such as:
current_energy_tariffis_off_peakis_peaktempo_colorcurrent_tariff_label
Or more simply provide native conditions such as:
- If the house is currently in off-peak hours
- If the house is currently in peak hours
- If the house is currently on a red / white / blue day
- If the active tariff is X
Overall benefit
I find this would be a very logical evolution, because:
- the notion of house already exists in Gladys
- energy tariffs also already exist
- but the link between the two is missing to make the information actionable in scenes
This would greatly strengthen Gladys’s smart energy / intelligent automation aspect, while remaining consistent with the existing features.
In summary
I therefore propose:
- to add tariff management linked to each house
- ideally relying on the main meter from Energy Monitoring
- so that Gladys knows at all times which tariff the house is in
- and that this information is natively usable in scenes
