Add Tesla Home Energy support to the Tessie Integration

Feature Requests
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The Tessie integration is a good replacement for the Tesla integration for people with newer cars that need the Fleet API and cannot set up a proxy API, however it does not support the home energy part of the tesla Integration.

At some point in the near future Tesla will likely be moving Powerwall control to the Fleet API as well, and Tesla integration will no long work without the complex private Proxy server setup.

If the Tessie integration could add the powerwall control features through it’s Fleet API Proxy (which Tessie already supports), then at least there is a way forward for Tesla Powerwall owners when the old API is shut down by Tesla.

2

I see the august release now includes the energy products in the Tessie integration. I have a question regarding it but don’t know where to post it. Here’s the question and would appreciate any feedback on better places to ask it.

In the legacy Tesla integration there was a binary called grid status which showed if the grid was available or not. In the new Tessie integration update for energy products there is a binary called grid services active which shows a state of unknown.

Are the two in fact the same thing, and if so why is the state unknown?

If they are not, is there an equivalent entity that can be exposed for use in automations around power outages?

Thanks.

3

I use the Tesla Powerwall integration for grid status. It’s local, so probably faster, which might be helpful for grid down automation.

binary_sensor.gome_energy_gateway_grid_status.

4

I have a powerwall 3 and they don’t allow the local option unfortunately.

5

That’s unfortunate.

The fleet api does support grid status via the live_status request. It returns “island_status” of “on_grid” if the grid is up.

I suggest putting in a feature request for the Tessie integration to expose that as the binary_sensor.home_energy_gateway_grid_status sensor.

6

My integration is totally missing all Energy Entities it only shows the car. Anyone know why they are not being added and how I can get them added?

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You need to make sure Tessie has permissions form Tesla for energy products.

Go to Tessie/settings/connectivity/change permissions. That will have you log into Tesla and takes you to the Tesla permission settings. From there, make sure “Energy Product Information” is checked.