Suggestion (not a spot price): include SmartEnergy SmartTimes

[cmikovits]

Apart from hourly Spot market, there are also other smart tariffs out there. e.g. Smart Times:

• You have 3 price windows within a day: off-peak, shoulder, peak
• the tarrif changes each month

It would be nice if such semi-smart options can be included in this plugin.

[Skol6]

Smart Times is also coming from Smart Energy.
I am not sure if their API does provide this data.

[suaveolent]

Unfortunately Smart Energy does not expose the values for Smart Times via their API.

We would need a web scraper for this, similar as for e.g. Epex Spot Web Scraper.

I'll add it on the todo list.

[cmikovits]

Thanks for the positive uptake of "my" wish.

According to the detailed information here: https://www.smartenergy.at/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/Kundeninformation_und_Preisblatt_-_smartTIMES.pdf

The price calculation is as follows:

Preis – Off-Peak (aktuell) = Austrian Power Future Base Front Month
Preis – Shoulder (aktuell) = Austrian Power Future Base Front Month + 15 % Aufschlag
Preis – Peak (aktuell) = Austrian Power Future Base Front Month + 40 % Aufschlag

The base price can be found also here:

https://www.eex.com/de/marktdaten/strom/futures (net price)

[suaveolent]

Actually I think we can just scrape the data from the smart energy site.

I was thinking of providing three separate entities for peak shoulder and off-peak.

Users could manually create a template sensor which, based on the current time, selects the correct sensor.

Although something like this could already be achieved with home assistant native web scrapers.