I just discovered and added this card today. Looks good.
Had to choose which two additional loads to include, settled on our second dwelling and our water heater. Could easily add other large consumers, such as aircon or mancave/shed. I have two solar PV systems, a larger grid-tied system and a smaller off-grid system, with power for each shown.
I have created a sensor for net energy consumption:
platform: template
sensors:
grid_electricity_consumption_net:
value_template: “{{ (states(‘sensor.solax_today_s_import_energy’)|float - states(‘sensor.solax_today_s_export_energy’)|float)|round(3) }}”
unit_of_measurement: “kWh”
In a usual card it shows both positiv and negativ value, but in the Power Distribution Card Plus it shows only positive value while when the value is negative it shows 0.
The design is a bit different but it is more closely reflecting my solar power plant configuration and is highly configurable. However it requires some configuration and sometimes you’ll need to create own sensors e.g. for “Daily Grid Sell” or “Daily Solar” as the card only accepts kWh whereas my inverter returns Wh.
It was primarily designed for Sunsynk inverters but works very nice for other devices.
is there any possibility to change which entity should be opened when “clickable_entities” is true? When I click the grid icon, it opens Grid export chart, however I want Grid import to be opened. Is it possible?
@WebSpyder, thanks for your post, I too found this, but having some challenges configuring it for Fronius. Maybe you can share your config and some of the entities used? Also how did you create “Daily Grid Sell” and “Daily Solar”?
some of the values I needed to calculate, others were readily available from my inverter or battery. My inverter gives me direct values for what I produce and sell to the grid (no need to do any calculation) as it meters consumption from and production to the grid as discrete values. I just needed to map the values to the paramters in the card. I’ll post my config later, as I’m quite busy at the moment.
People - I have recently started exporting with my powerwall at 5kW and the animation isn’t working properly in the way of illustrating a lot of energy moving from the battery to the grid.
Could this be a bug or an issue with scales? (as in, the animation being slow because it thinks 5kW is not a lot of power going through, when in this case it’s as much as the battery can put out)
I love the plugin and its visual approach to show where the energy comes from used in the house. What I like especially is that the ring around the house shows the share of the energy sources (solar/grid/battery).
Only pitty is, that this is only a snapshot of exactly “NOW”.What I am looking for is the data shown in the colored ring, but spread over time. I created a mockup to try out in excel.
I dont have yet my solar running … so I cant experiement in HA. Had to do it in Excel.
Have you guys came across a similar approach in HA here somwhere where I could dive into teh YAML and how its done?
If not … any Idea how this could be approached using lovelace cards?
I made soma assumptions on consumption and solar production.
This is how it could look like in Summer:
Clear. I want this graph promiently in my standard dashboard bc this is what displayed on a big screen in the living room. I dont want this on the extra energy panel. Can we easily recreate this graph in a dahsboard?
Guys, I have installed Power Flow Chard Plus and it works like a charm on my Browser on the PC. I have a Picture Frame which runs a Kiosk Browser. There the card will not show. What am I missing here?
Daily solar is provided by the solcast integration (sensor.solcast_forecast_remaining_today).
Some of the calculated values may not be exactly correct, as I tried to calculate them from provided values from my inverter like ampere, voltage or watt.
Hope it will help you.
Maybe you should check, what values are provided by your photovoltaic system and reading the manual for sunsynk-power-flow-card
I pretty well know that, however, I was asked and politeness and respect for others made me publish my config here. Pls. feel free to move it to the correct section.