keys for car expenses (d=, v=) should be shown in separate fields

[katmai]

In the new transaction window: if currently selected category is "car category", additional fields should be shown below with corresponding description. In fact, I just suggest to increate usability and comfort for the user via replacing entering keys manually with dedicated fields, where user have to only enter few numbers.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

This is an old refactor I need to do some day. I used memo initially, as it is also available into split txn, so that you can input there as well.

The plan is to use a kind a metadata also to enables not only vehicle cost tracking, but also water & energy

#1301000 wish: Water & Energy Stats
#1850031 wish: vehicles can also be evaluated via TAG

[Lindsay Lorden (ludwigwn)]

I code the current "d= v=" format for my "estimated home power charging usage" for our PHEV. So in addition to recording petrol costs, I also include home charging. To date we haven't used public charging so haven't bothered thinking about that part, nor any 'format' for it, through yet.

For this I code TEXT for the v= value ("v=est kWh home power"), so any update to the "d= v=" way of recording would need to handle electricity costs against an EV and PHEV. This is okay because I have separate sub-categories for power and petrol for the car, although this sub-cat does produce an interesting "Vehicle Cost Report" (see attachment).

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Your method once available could also then be used for a pure EV car charged at home. Plus will no doubt be a better integrated report than mine, which I get from an excel analysis of all exported transactions to show cents per Km across petrol & power.
In New Zealand, RUC (Road User Charges) are now starting to be charged (you can buy them in multiples of 1,000 Kms), so these are yet more running costs. Not sure how recording & reporting these could be in integrated into HomeBank. For now I'll code them into their own cat:sub-cat for the car.

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How I record electricity charge $s:
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For home charging I create a $0 transaction with 2 split entries on the last day of every month - one against the vehicle's "electricity" sub-category for [eg] negative $46, and other a positive $46 against our "Regular Bills:Electricity" sub-category. This means our electricity charges for the house then exclude the estimated power used by the car.
I get the estimate for charging from the car in kWh for the month and use the current charge rate from our utility supplier to get the $s.

Memo format I use is -
    PHEV d=60290 v=est kWh home power charge costs for month

Of course, the electricity credit I code has no special memo format need.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

as mentioned this is linked to wish 1301000 other chnages