Hi Developers. Thank you for your work with the Home Energy Management feature. I came to HA expressly to improve our energy management. In the interest of encouraging further development / refinement (and not as complaints) I’ve laid out a few issues that I think need attention:
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Battery Integration
Solar households will increasingly have batteries to maximise self consumption of renewable generated energy and to avoid the high retail price of imported energy (compared to the wholesale rates from exported energy). -
Solar Forecast
I was very excited to see the forecast.solar in the previous HA release. But unfortunately it has a geographic range limitation which is not well documented. Solcast is an alternative but requires a bit of work to put into HA well. -
Energy Distribution
The Tesla inspired energy distribution component is very nice - but apart from the battery limitation it also seems to confuse the concepts of power and energy. That display with the moving ‘electrons’ should really be based on the current power flow (kW) not on overall energy movement (kWh). It would be good to be able to edit the attributes on the bubbles, like you can in the tesla_style_power_card. For instance, showing the current electricity price gives context to current grid power draw.
To help clarify some of the points above I’ve attached my current bespoke energy management dashboard. Thanks again.
