On 27 October 2026 Home Assistant merged a change that gives the Energy dashboard a separate place for a whole-home consumption meter. Until now, people with a main-panel monitor that measured everything the house used had to add it as an "individual device". The total then sat in the Sankey diagram next to the real devices it already contained, so the same energy showed up twice.
The work comes from contributor Jump-333 and was split into a core pull request, a frontend pull request and a documentation page, all merged the same morning. The documentation went into the next branch, so the feature is aimed at the next monthly release, Home Assistant 2026.11, rather than the current one.
What the Home source does
The new Home consumption section sits under Settings > Dashboards > Energy. You pick one energy sensor that measures the whole home. It needs device_class: energy and a state_class of total or total_increasing. You can also add a power sensor (device_class: power, state_class: measurement, in W or kW), which feeds the live views such as the Now tab. A display name is optional; if you leave it empty, the name of your home is used. Only one home meter can be configured.
Once the meter is set, it replaces the total that Home Assistant used to calculate from grid, solar and battery sensors. Individual devices then become a breakdown of that measured total, and whatever they do not cover appears as untracked consumption. The pull request includes a screenshot of the Sankey chart in a "home only" setup, with no grid or solar sources at all, which suits people who only have a single clamp meter.
What it does not change
The documentation is explicit that grid, solar and battery figures still come from their own sensors and are not adjusted by the home meter. If the home meter reads more than the sources add up to, the difference is shown under the home's name in the energy usage graph. If it reads less, the sources are still shown as measured. So the feature does not try to reconcile meters that disagree. It shows the gap and leaves the diagnosis to you.
Who benefits
The change helps most in homes with a dedicated whole-house meter, for example a CT clamp in the distribution board or a smart meter reader, plus a handful of monitored plugs and circuits. Before, the "untracked" slice in such setups was either missing or wrong, because Home Assistant could only infer total use from grid import and solar production. With a measured total, the untracked share now has a real reference point.
Contributor Jump-333 also has an open frontend pull request for a separate power devices chart card on the Energy dashboard and another for custom colours on individual devices. Neither had been merged at the time of writing.