Built-in and Custom Energy & Power Cards in Home Assistant

[@EdwinPWeston]

Energy Period Selector Plus... Never knew it existed and never understood why the built in card did not have a date selector, let alone a date range selector. Thank you so much!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thanks for the comment! As you said, it really is missing from built-in one, and this is great improvement.

[@mondotv4216]

@@BeardedTinker Yes but it would be better if HA gave you some way of placing it in the card header as per the energy dashboard, rather than screen clutter.

[@major_west]

I've been wanting to build a custom energy dashboard for some time. Your video has motivated me to finally get started on it. Thanks!

[@BeardedTinker]

That is awesome! Have fun with it - I need to redo all of my energy related tabs and dashboards.

[@mvrck-pb5pk]

Thanks again for a very useful video about creating and maintaining a custom Energy Dashboard.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad it was interesting! Thanks for the comment!!!

[@tom_hd8769]

Very good inspiration, thank you for this video. 👍

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hey Andrej, what a coincidence. I was working on the exact same video a couple of weeks ago, but decided to give other things priority. Now I don't have to create this video anymore haha! Great work! ❤

[@BeardedTinker]

We keep doing this to each other 😂 BTW - great video on Matter. I'm still waiting for my devices to arrive to test them.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@BeardedTinker Haha! Thanks. It was quite an adventure to get it to work. But once I knew how to do, it became easier.

[@loicminois8072]

Energy flow customized ? 😮 , thanks very much for this very useful video 🎉😊

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you liked it! Thank you!!!

[@jerseyman99]

I think we need to add a tutorial on how to use the Home Assistant Help pages! Try as I might I cannot find the "Energy card" page referenced in this tutorial.

[@BeardedTinker]

FIXED - added a link to documentation on that one too in video description :) www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/energy/

[@ictstelucjam3604]

Great video Andrej. Thank you. Lot to do again. 🙂

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you :) Have fun with it!!!!

[@ErossaanBooming]

i need help on how you moved from 2:17 to 2:18. basically how did you "copy all this to HA" .....

[@BeardedTinker]

You just copy "type: energy-usage-graph" from documentation into HA UI - paste it in manual (empty) card and that's it.

[@ErossaanBooming]

@@BeardedTinker omg it is that simple... I feel stupid :p

[@BeardedTinker]

@@ErossaanBooming nah, don't worry !!!!

[@MorcegolasMc]

Hello, you have on the right one card that shows energy spent on some rooms and some devices, how can I do that? List all my areas/rooms and have a graph with them stacked together and horizontals bars, can you point me out in the right direction? Thanks.

[@BeardedTinker]

This one? github.com/MindFreeze/ha-sankey-chart For that I use PowerCalc - that creates for each device power use based on templates and than just add devices in the chart.

[@MorcegolasMc]

@@BeardedTinkerwasn’t that one, was the one that you talk in minute 4:45m but I can see if that one works better, I’ll try it tonight

[@SimonAubry-t4t]

Really intresting vidéo, I do think that a smart home should manage very well power consemption.

[@BeardedTinker]

I think so too! Thanks for the comment!

[@EsotericArctos]

I've slowly been getting energy monitoring devices to allow me to monitor energy in the home. I don't have solar or wind, but I do get "green" energy from the grid. I am slowly seeing times when more green, cheaper energy is available and how much energy the home uses so I can start using energy in greener times. I would not be able to do that without the monitoring in Home Assistant :)

[@BeardedTinker]

My solar is more of "proof of concept" than full install, but it's great for testing things I couldn't otherwise. Our electricity prices are fixed for period of 6 (12) months by government - nobody even knows that are current prices on open market here.

[@Covonant117]

Thanks for the tips!

[@BeardedTinker]

Happy to help!

[@ErossaanBooming]

ok once again, Mr noob here, I have just got my energy dashbord (the default one) how do i get the energy distribution to be displayed on the main dashboard to begin with?

[@BeardedTinker]

You need to do that manually by adding specific cards.

[@docart9669]

Thanks for the video! And is it possible to create automation in Home Assistant for a solar inverter with the Tuya app, which has a software option to adjust the output power, so that the output power is equal to or less than the consumption in the apartment? Using the smart Tuya meter. The main goal is to prevent the leakage of excess energy back into the grid. thank you

[@BeardedTinker]

Not that I know or better to say, I think it wouldn't be that easy. This is very dynamic and can be a problem to set.

[@docart9669]

@@BeardedTinker It is not easy, but this question worries many owners of balcony solar stations. Maybe someone knows the solution 🤔

[@BeardedTinker]

Question is - why would you want to do that? In normal situation, there is no issue with export of extra power in the network, you just don't get paid for that. Talked with bunch of people who have the same system (including me) and I see no point in doing that.

[@ayubmuhammad1210]

i hv two solar stings in my inverter both are operational. this card only show pv1, if my generator starts its not showing generator input, when generator start production it start showing incorrect value at home load

[@YoutubeSalvatrucha]

can u change the size of the cards ? i wanna make it big like on original energy dashboard

[@BeardedTinker]

Not out of box unfortunately.

[@PatrickBulteel]

Around 4:20 mark you're talking about the self-consumed card - this should be 100% if like you say, you're never sending solar to the grid, but are consuming all of it. Also, in the main panel (where you have peak and off peak) you should also show the amount of solar consumed (as an orange/yellow) so if you consume 4kWh but you were generating 1kWh, that should show a 1kWh yellow/orange band and the rest would be blue. You're either missing something in the Energy dashboard or hasn't been setup properly. Great video though!

[@BeardedTinker]

I don't have return to the grid set in the Dashboard as I don't return anything to return grid. This system is not intended to return any extra power to utility grid, and that's probably why I don't see it. I do see how much from solar was consumed out of total, that part works ok. Plus difference in pulled from grid vs total consumed.

[@llablancheHermineBZH]

bonjour comment faite vous pour récupère les info de votre onduleur et avec quoi les avez vous récupère ? merci pour les reponses

[@CliffordFullerton]

Thanks! I like! But ever considered installing more solar panels, so you can finally produce the power you're consuming? 😁

[@BeardedTinker]

That's the plan! But since it's not very "legal" here to do it like that, and I still have to move on roof one I have, it's always low priority...

[@vonis22]

Quick question, do you calculate the usage of individual devices or do you have power meter smart plugs ?

[@BeardedTinker]

I have combo. Few devices (smart) report power usage, a lot of them have Shelly Plug S to monitor power usage (and turn them on/off). While for others, I use Power Calc (there is a video about it on my channel) to calculate power usage based on device state (for example light colour and brightness).

[@bartluyckx4668]

Very nice video. I am trying to configure my own energie dashboard based on the information in your video. Alle information is showed properly in the normal dashboard but in the custom dashboard I see a lot of zeros. I use the following custom ones energy-period-selector-plus ==> this is working energy-flow-card-plus ==> this is working For all the others use the original ones and I ave just added them all like this at the end of my custom dashboard. Like this. - type: energy-usage-graph - type: energy-solar-graph - type: energy-grid-neutrality-gauge - type: energy-sources-table energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-solar-consumed-gauge - type: energy-devices-graph energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-carbon-consumed-gauge - type: energy-self-sufficiency-gauge But all the original ones do not show any value. Any idea what can be wrong ? Thanks in advance Luxy

[@BeardedTinker]

That's not an easy answer. Sometimes having both old and new card for energy can block access to one of them. Also, one of the reasons for that can be missing original period selector.

[@bartluyckx4668]

@@BeardedTinker th

[@bartluyckx4668]

Thanks for your answer. One day after I posted this, it started working properly. I suspect having negative valies in some energie sensors caused this issue but not sure. @@BeardedTinker

[@leonsinko4328]

hi, how to get awesome energy (in my dashboards is no AWESOME) and how to setup data from mqtt source?

[@typxxilps]

great progress but I would also appreciate sometimes in the future a bit more of the most usefull features inside these new cards. A dedicated video would make it a lot easier i guess to find and set the right focus on just a few topics. I have no glue what to expect but i was in the same situation when I clicked this video except I am not that happy with the usual energy dashboard. Thumbs up and thanks a lot !

[@BeardedTinker]

Noted! That's always a double-edged sword. One of next videos will be focused on only one integration from HACS - but people tend to skip does videos. That's why I decided to go with this more "overview" than in-depth. I'll try to do something about them in future.

[@wayne8113]

Thanks, Big help 👍

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad it helped

[@hotmonitor]

if install Energy Period Selector Plus + card type: energy-usage-graph have a problem no data 2 hours. after 24 hours problem is the same. When first time install card works correct.

[@BeardedTinker]

I've seen this on my system too. Pressing Shift+ F5/clearing cache helped. Others have had similar issue. To test, try to add original date selector (type: energy-date-selection) and use it to move days back/forth.

[@hotmonitor]

Shift f5 not work | type: energy-devices-graph Works | type: energy-date-selection NO DATA | type: energy-sources-table NO DATA | type: custom:sankey-chart works | type: energy-usage-graph NOT WORK

[@ЕмилДимитров-е3ю]

I have the same problem. In the built-in energy panel of the home assistant, the energy graph works correctly. But when I add the graphics card in a dashboard that I create, the card doesn't work. It says missing information and I have to wait two hours. What have I tried? Twice it started working briefly when I was scrolling through the days and then stopped again....And as I said in the built-in energy panel there are no problems at all! Help!

[@mikemitchelle1723]

So this is a bit off topic, but do you happen to know how to purge data from the HA database but KEEP the energy data for the year? My db has almost reached 2gb and it is dragging HA to a crawl.

[@BeardedTinker]

Sorry, but no. You could try manual database select/delete but it will take some time to get everything out. Or you could play with include/exclude in history and reduce purge to 1-2 days. But I haven't done anything similar so far.

[@mikemitchelle1723]

I’ll look into that, thank you!

[@CliffordFullerton]

In iobroker I had influxdb running in a seperate container. Data would be written there - and then Grafana could turn that into graphs and bars. I just recently migrated to Home Assistant, but a brief search produced results for Home Assistant and influxdb

[@andrea00]

Great video!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you very much!!!

[@catcam]

Thanks for great content again BT .

[@BeardedTinker]

My pleasure! And thanks for the comment Nikša!!!

[@TheNikesh85]

Hi Andrej, what is the graph (bar) card that you are using to monitor each device? Does the selector card automatically change that too? Thanks a lot for ur videos BTW

[@BeardedTinker]

Unfortunately no. That's just mini-graph-card from HACS. I can't change (that way) how it shows data.

[@chrisdixon5241]

Nice! Do you know how the predicted solar energy is calculated? Is it coming from your inverter or some other source?

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you!!! There is an Integration in Home Assistant called Forecast solar - www.home-assistant.io/integrations/forecast_solar/ I use that. It predicts based on historical data and weather information for your area what is potential.

[@rossco5551]

These HACs solutions look good. I think it's the individual entities card that's most lacking but. Having to manually maintain a list of power sub-consumers is tedious (and not even done in the config of the card itself). There should be a way to use something like the auto-entities card to grab these devices using filters. Obviously you can do this for instantaneous values, but not reactive to the date range card you've talked about.

[@dluik]

Great video - thanks as always. I would like to add a simple card that shows how much i spent on energy yesterday. Can this be done with these stock energy cards or do i absolutely need to play about / install “utility Meter”?

[@Nomadnik_]

how can i make this energycard with reactjs proj ??

[@BeardedTinker]

Sorry didn't get it.

[@TheFlyingKiwiNZ]

Nice video but you didn't show how to add the entities to these graphs....

[@BeardedTinker]

07:47 for example?

[@ronm6585]

Thanks 👍🏼

[@BeardedTinker]

You're welcome Ron!

[@timv1302]

Many thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. The "Energy Period Selector Plus" is absolutely a big win. Do you have any idea how to make your custom energy dashboard with the same layout as the general energy dashboard? The graphs (energy-usage-graph, ...) of the general energy dashboard are much wider in landscape mode.

[@mark82421]

Stupid question (if there are stupid questions 🙂) can you point me to a video how to copy these commands in HA? sorry total newbie ......

[@BeardedTinker]

There are now stupid questions - only my stupid answers 😂 But seriously what exactly did you have in mind? Copy commands where?

[@dluik]

I had the same question eg how to paste this “type: energy-date-selection” into HA. I went to add a card and then pasted this. HA spotted it wanted a manual card and opened up a Yaml interface.

[@ricobass0253]

You keep referring to everything as power, even when pointing to energy graphs. I have to look carefully to see if the label is kW or kWhr to see what you really mean. Very confusing.

[@BeardedTinker]

But it does keep you on your toes...