SRP energy integration does not update on new data

The problem

1. the state updates on first run after a restart but does not update on subsequent changes
2. the sensor class is total increasing however the value returned from SRP Energy is not a total increasing signal, it represents the daily energy use. This can result in errors when the current reading is lower than the previous as it is assumed that a new cycle started in between readings.
3. the readings provided by SRP are not always stable until later in the day, I have noticed that the 23:00 reading is adjusted a couple of times in the early morning. Not sure but I suspect it is adjusted to balance the daily number.
4. I don’t understand why the sensor name is hardcoded to “sensor” instead of the entity name.
5. this did work a couple of years ago.

modified sensor code sensor.txt summary of logs showing behaviour for a typical day: srp logs.xlsx

full log over last restart at 04-05 to this morning home-assistant 2022-04-06.log

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.3.8

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

SRP Energy

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

Diagnostics information

see log file however this trend shows the issue. The raw total represents the data returned by the api, however the state of the entity is not updated

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

The logs show the data coming in from the api, however the state of the entity does not update.

Additional information

I also attached a copy of the code modifications that i made to add additional logging.

[dinosoup1]

Can confirm this is a critical bug - the plugin is currently useless without the above fix.

[briglx]

Hi @richardcalgary, I’ll investigate this and keep you posted.