The energy distribution widget in the energy dashboard is awesome. However, it would be helpful if we could have a real-time view of this. Although the daily distribution is informative, knowing the current real-time distribution will help users make better informed decisions where they don’t already have automation to do the same (e.g., switch on or off a specific appliance to maximise self-consumption and self-sufficiency).
Are you asking to see an Instantaneous use Card that can be seen in the Energy Tab?
Something like this?
If so, that’s exactly what I am looking for.
I managed to set up my energy bridge to display energy usage in the Energy tab but have been unable to find a way to display the instantaneous usage. Instead I have it displayed on one of my other pages.
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There’s a Lovelace card for that in HACS: GitHub - gurbyz/power-wheel-card: An intuitive way to represent the power and energy that your home is consuming or producing. (A custom card for the Lovelace UI of Home Assistant.). Would be nice to have something like that integrated in the energy dashboard
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This looks fantastic, I’ll be checking this out. The screenshot below shows my dashboard with real-time values and the home assistant energy card (which only updates every hour). Does your card support the non-fossil view as the default one does?
Hey there’s a lot that goes in to building the entities for this dashboard. Since posting this I’ve changed it a fair bit - partly due to performance issues with my then setup (pi 3B+) and also to simplify the view a little. I’ve now changed to a HA yellow and I’ve been redo-ing this dashboard so I don’t really have working code for the full view to share right now until I fix it up how I like it. Is there a particular part you’re looking for?
The two main charts code is here:
cards:
- type: vertical-stack
cards:
- type: custom:apexcharts-card
graph_span: 24h
stacked: true
update_interval: 30s
all_series_config:
stroke_width: 1
unit: kW
curve: smooth
opacity: 1
group_by:
func: avg
duration: 30s
fill: zero
type: area
invert: true
fill_raw: zero
extend_to: now
transform: return x / 1000;
show:
legend_value: false
color_list:
- '#7bc043'
- '#0392cf'
- '#1a936f'
- '#c6dabf'
- '#4071ed'
- purple
- orange
- brown
- pink
- cyan
- blue
- '#6F4E37'
- '#71797E'
apex_config:
chart:
height: 175%
span:
start: day
header:
show: true
title: Power Today
series:
- entity: sensor.solar_power_corrected_1m
name: Generation
type: line
invert: false
fill_raw: 'null'
group_by:
func: raw
- entity: sensor.grid_export_power_1m
name: Export
invert: false
type: line
fill_raw: 'null'
group_by:
func: raw
- entity: sensor.twc_charger_load_always_w
name: EV Charger
- entity: sensor.hot_water_system_supply_switch_0_power
name: Hot Water
- entity: sensor.fridge_current_consumption
name: Fridge
- entity: sensor.arlec_sw_washer_power
name: Washer
- entity: sensor.arlec_sw_dryer_power
name: Dryer
- entity: sensor.sw2_tvmedia_power
name: Media
- entity: sensor.eko_sw_dishwasher_power
name: Dishwasher
- entity: sensor.eko_sw_study_power
name: Study
- entity: sensor.ac_power_total_corrected
name: Air Con
- entity: sensor.arlec_sw_coffee_power
name: Coffee Machine
- entity: sensor.unmonitored_power
name: Other
yaxis:
- id: first
decimals: 0
show: true
apex_config:
forceNiceScale: true
title:
text: kW
- type: custom:apexcharts-card
apex_config:
chart:
height: 175%
graph_span: 24h
update_interval: 30s
all_series_config:
curve: smooth
span:
start: day
header:
show: true
title: Cost Today
show_states: false
colorize_states: true
yaxis:
- id: first
decimals: 0
apex_config:
title:
text: $
forceNiceScale: true
series:
- entity: sensor.instant_cost_per_hour_1m
name: Instant Cost Per Hour
stroke_width: 1
unit: $/h
extend_to: now
fill_raw: zero
show:
legend_value: false
- entity: sensor.today_energy_total_cost
name: Daily Cost Accumulated
type: area
fill_raw: last
show:
legend_value: false
stroke_width: 1
unit: $
extend_to: now
float_precision: 2
Take a look at this thread: Using Home Assistant to calculate my energy bill using data from my Solar Inverter
It goes in to the detail of how many of those entities are built. Obviously you’ll need to change a lot of this to suit your entities.
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Wanted to suggest the same! Accumulated energy distribution is nice, but of no needs. I would like to see what`s going on live.
I would like it too! My vote
Same, this has bugged me for years.
Put it under Settings > Dashboard > Energy.
Users can change their view to Real-Time, Day, or Week.
Having a config line that we can add under the Energy Distribution Card would be great too, so one could add both to a dashboard. No brainer
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I am “sorry” to intervene in here, but I am still at a stage to understand if this graph in the Energy dashboard is real time or not ?
I think it is not, because it is representing ENERGY in kWh, and not using any power sensor that gives an instantaneous value in Watts …
Is this correct ?
I am looking for this graph, but showing real time data :
I see the dots moving on the lines letting us think it is LIVE … but I think it is not ?
Many Thanks !
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One year later I have the same question. Can anybody answer?
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I agree with cedricdelecole and aorb .
The energy distribution graph is (IMHO) perfect for realtime state and not for kWh, is there any way to use this graph with kW entities?
I totally agree. The energy graphic is misleading - it has “electrons” flowing, even though those don’t reflect the current status. Why show an animated electron if it’s a snapshot point in time?
The graphic really needs to show the current state of production / consumption. Even the total in kWh should be in realtime - you can create a use a Riemann sum to show this in realtime.
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just to update this with some extra info:
are 2 alternatives and working nicely.
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