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
  • bigfish@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    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@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.