I am struggling to understand how the Energy dashboard is useful. Specifically, by only showing energy and excluding power. I am also seeing errors in the energy-distribution graph.
I have a new solar-system. 10kw of Panels, 50kwh battery, large 15kw inverter. I was hoping to use the Energy dashboard & distribution chart to answer basic questions: “How are my panels perfoming right now”, “where is my energy coming from right now?”
But it seems the energy dashboard can’t do that, because it only does energy and now power?
Here are a few issues/question I have about the dashboard.
- Energy consumption chart.
My Inverter is reporting:
10W from Grid
2547W from Solar
1225W into the battery
1109 W Load
That matches what Solar Assistant is reporting: (minor variance due to timing)
And that matches what I’m seeing in MQTT (minor variance due to timing)
So why is the Energy Distribution Reporting:
Grid is charging the battery: Wrong
Grid is supporting the load: Wrong
No way to see that right now my house is entirely supported by my own PV.
Furthermore, My inverter reports 2.6 kWh of PV today, but the Energy Distribution chart is only showing 1 Kwh.
Inverter: Dashboard: (major difference not due to timing)
Here is my dashboard configuration:
- Energy Use chart colors are horribly confusing:
Charging the battery is Red, but Discharging the battery is Light Blue.
And Load is Dark Blue.
Typically red colors are used for ‘bad’, so shouldn’t grid-in be red, if anything?
Could the chart be configured so that the battery has two shades of the same color for charging /discharging? Or at least don’t take two completely different things and give them two shades of the same color (battery discharge, total load)
This chart is impossible to read, there’s not even a legend.
- This chart assumes everyone does net-metering. I get zero money for grid-sell, so I avoid it and instead charge my battery. The chart is effectively useless, but I see no way to remove the chart. Can it be removed?
Am I off base that the energy dashboard is useless for monitoring home PV systems? Or am I totally doing this wrong?