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Solar energy in Home Assistant (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago by yesterdayshero to c/homeassistant

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I recently got solar installed at my place and was wondering if anyone had tips on things like:

Using the Energy dashboard effectively
Template Sensors I should set up for energy tracking
Graphs or visualising production/usage in dashboards
Automations that you've used to help save using energy from the grid

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I like knowing my daily production and keeping that on my mushroom dashboard. That's not an ootb metric on my SolarEdge system, but lifetime energy is. So I have an automation that records the total each night into a helper, and a Mushroom Template Chip card that does the math for me. It's simple but it does the job.

type: template content: >- Today: {{(states('sensor.solaredge_ac_energy_kwh')|float - states('input_number.solar_kwh_yesterday')|float )|round(2)}} kWh icon: mdi:chart-line

[–] yesterdayshero 1 points 1 year ago

Nice one. My system has that with its integration which is good. I'm yet to put it into a graph. The part missing from mine is working out how much I'm using from the grid.