hass.tibber_prices/docs/user/versioned_docs/version-v0.31.0/config-price-level.md

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🏷️ Price Level

🏷️ Price Level Gap Tolerance

Settings → Devices & Services → Tibber Prices → Configure → 🏷️ Price Level

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Tibber's API assigns each interval a price level: VERY_CHEAP, CHEAP, NORMAL, EXPENSIVE, or VERY_EXPENSIVE. In practice, a single interval can jump to a different level briefly before jumping back — creating isolated "noise" intervals that make sensors flicker.

Gap tolerance smooths this out.

Setting

Setting	Default	Description
Gap tolerance	1	Number of consecutive "mismatched" intervals to fill in automatically

Example

With gap tolerance = 1, a lone NORMAL interval surrounded by CHEAP on both sides is automatically corrected to CHEAP:

Before:  CHEAP  CHEAP  NORMAL  CHEAP  CHEAP
After:   CHEAP  CHEAP  CHEAP   CHEAP  CHEAP
                        ↑ filled in

With gap tolerance = 0, no smoothing is applied and every interval uses the raw API level.

Notes

• This applies to Tibber's own level classification (separate from the Price Rating which is calculated by this integration)
• Increasing gap tolerance beyond 2 is rarely useful — larger gaps usually represent genuine price differences
• The gap tolerance here only affects level sensors; the separate gap tolerance in Best Price and Peak Price settings controls period merging behavior