Battery Percentage on Energy Dashboard

Would be great if we could see the battery percentage in the energy dashboard

For example, I’d expect to see the pink circle around the battery only half full, as my battery is currently at 58%

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And then similarly, we could have a simple gauge similar to the self sufficiency one for more readable information

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Hover info could even predict remaining runtime depending on how the feature is implemented

Hi @dolkensp,

It doesn’t make much sense to display the battery percentage here because it’s a completely different kind of metric. The data here represents the change (or profile in case of graphs) during the current day (month, year or selected interval).

I’d argue knowing how much battery capacity you have remaining is a key metric one would be interested in when viewing information about their home energy usage - aka the “energy” dashboard.

I know how much energy I’ve produced and consumed, I can view a forecast of how solar is remaining to be produced today and tomorrow, but I can’t know how much I’ve got stored available for use?

We don’t leave the speedometer off the dashboard because it’s a different kind of metric to the fuel gauge. They can co-exist

After a day/month/period, you have 58% battery remaining. Still a useful figure to know if, for example, you’re off-grid, in a caravan, or simply watching your energy consumption. Could even be overlaid on the production graph, with a dotted “forecast” in a different color/style to indicate the predicted discharge rate, though now we’re talking feature creep :rofl:

Just use Power Flow Card Plus, that’s for “now” metrics.

Energy dashboard doesn’t even show values for current hour, it really does not make sense here and not in terms of a type of values but in a time manner.

The energy dashboard should show the percentage of the battery. It’s quite incomprehensable that it’s not the right place to show that information? It would be of great added value. I can see the in’s and out’s, but not the result. Or the actual status. I did create a specific dashboard to show the percentage, but now I have two energy dashboards.

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I also think, it would be nice to have the battery percentage there.
It could just be an option for those who have the metric available. My Huawei system does provide it.

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I agree with this change, but what’s even more confusing is the icon used for the battery itself. It shows 3/3 segments, for which i would assume indicates it’s fully charged. It should use the 1 segment battery icon to not confuse in that regard.

This indeed what I was missing to.
I have now a separate dashboard for the battery percentage, but it would be much nicer if we could have it here.
The Power Flow Plus is not an option, it shows mostly muliplied by 10. The batery percentage is almost the only thing that works proper there. :smiley:

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I would add another vote for this. It seems an important metric to be able to see on an Energy dashboard, and it seems silly to add it on a separate dashboard and have to switch between them.

I guess the concern is that people may think the battery stats represent the amount consumed or produced today, rather than the SoC. However if it was an optional feature, it could be clearly labelled as to its meaning. This would prevent it showing by default, and would only be turned on by people who would find it useful.

I agree with @djunkee , In the Huawei Fusion Solar app they made a really nice overview of the data people are interested in, the only thing that is missing for me is the solar forecast.

I would like to check everything centrally in home assistant in one Dashboard, which in my opinion should be the energy dashboard.
Having another dashboard for the current stats is quite annoying

Agree with above, I feel this is pretty essential on an energy dashboard. If you don’t want it it doesn’t have to be configured.