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Solar energy in Home Assistant (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by yesterdayshero@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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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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[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I had more success with using my energy monitor sensors than my inverter ones. My inverter (SolarEdge) seemed to have a fairly low refresh rate, and there's also no information on power use.

I have a Sense energy monitor that has real time measurements and instead use that for my dashboard production and usage graph.