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Utility meter for domain group not working

See original GitHub issue

I upgraded powercalc to v0.24.6 from v0.22.something and my utility meter for my lights domain group is now broken. It was previously working fine.

Config:

powercalc:
  enable_autodiscovery: true
  create_domain_groups:
    - light
  create_utility_meters: true
  utility_meter_types:
    - daily

Debug log:

2022-08-04 19:44:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc] Setting up domain based group sensors..
2022-08-04 19:44:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.group] Creating grouped power sensor: All light power
2022-08-04 19:44:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.group] Creating grouped energy sensor: All light energy
2022-08-04 19:44:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.powercalc.sensors.utility_meter] Creating utility_meter sensor: All light energy daily (entity_id=sensor.all_light_energy_2_daily)

I suspect the last line is revealing because sensor.all_light_energy_2_daily does not exist. The correct sensor to use should be sensor.all_light_energy_daily.

The only place I could find reference to the wrong sensor via a grep was in .storage/core.restore_state:

            "state": {
                "entity_id": "sensor.all_light_energy_daily",
                "state": "0",
                "attributes": {
                    "state_class": "total_increasing",
                    "source": "sensor.all_light_energy_2",
                    "status": "collecting",
                    "last_period": "0.4340",
                    "meter_period": "daily",
                    "cron pattern": "0 0 * * *",
                    "last_reset": "2022-08-03T14:00:00.071537+00:00",
                    "unit_of_measurement": "kWh",
                    "device_class": "energy",
                    "icon": "mdi:counter",
                    "friendly_name": "All light energy daily"
                },

Again, that source sensor.all_light_energy_2 does not exist. It should be sensor.all_light_energy. I have tried stopping my HASS docker container then manually editing that source line and removing the “_2” from the entity_id but it does not fix anything and is later overwritten. Looking at the code maybe it is appending “_2” as a utility meter type but I couldn’t parse any more than that by just reading the code.