Built-in and Custom Energy & Power Cards in Home Assistant

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Time has come to expand on our Energy Dashboard and create AWESOME dashboard by using few HACS Lovelace components. Today we will look at 3 HACS Lovelace components that will add extra customisation and options to your existing or new dashboard.
Home Assistant Energy Card:
www.home-assistant.io/dashboa...
Energy Period Selector Plus
github.com/flixlix/energy-per...
Power Flow Card Plus
github.com/flixlix/power-flow...
Energy Flow Card Plus
github.com/flixlix/energy-flo...
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Custom Energy Dashboard
01:38 - Internal Home Assistant Energy Cards
02:19 - Current Available Cards
05:04 - Energy Period Selector Plus
07:16 - Power Flow Card Plus
09:05 - Energy Flow Card Plus
10:49 - More info and final thoughts
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@major_west 11 ай бұрын

I've been wanting to build a custom energy dashboard for some time. Your video has motivated me to finally get started on it. Thanks!

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

That is awesome! Have fun with it - I need to redo all of my energy related tabs and dashboards.

@mvrck-pb5pk 11 ай бұрын

Thanks again for a very useful video about creating and maintaining a custom Energy Dashboard.

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was interesting! Thanks for the comment!!!

@ictstelucjam3604 11 ай бұрын

Great video Andrej. Thank you. Lot to do again. 🙂

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Thank you :) Have fun with it!!!!

@Covonant117 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips!

@BeardedTinker 7 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@loicminois8072 5 ай бұрын

Energy flow customized ? 😮 , thanks very much for this very useful video 🎉😊

@BeardedTinker 5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thank you!!!

@andrea00 9 ай бұрын

Great video!

@BeardedTinker 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!!!

@wayne8113 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Big help 👍

@BeardedTinker 5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@catcam 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for great content again BT .

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

My pleasure! And thanks for the comment Nikša!!!

@EdwinPWeston 11 ай бұрын

Energy Period Selector Plus... Never knew it existed and never understood why the built in card did not have a date selector, let alone a date range selector. Thank you so much!

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! As you said, it really is missing from built-in one, and this is great improvement.

@mondotv4216 2 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker Yes but it would be better if HA gave you some way of placing it in the card header as per the energy dashboard, rather than screen clutter.

@ronm6585 11 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍🏼

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

You're welcome Ron!

@user-io1pc8ck1d 11 ай бұрын

Really intresting vidéo, I do think that a smart home should manage very well power consemption.

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

I think so too! Thanks for the comment!

@SmartHomeJunkie 11 ай бұрын

Hey Andrej, what a coincidence. I was working on the exact same video a couple of weeks ago, but decided to give other things priority. Now I don't have to create this video anymore haha! Great work! ❤

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

We keep doing this to each other 😂 BTW - great video on Matter. I'm still waiting for my devices to arrive to test them.

@SmartHomeJunkie 11 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker Haha! Thanks. It was quite an adventure to get it to work. But once I knew how to do, it became easier.

@timv1302 11 ай бұрын

Many thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. The "Energy Period Selector Plus" is absolutely a big win. Do you have any idea how to make your custom energy dashboard with the same layout as the general energy dashboard? The graphs (energy-usage-graph, ...) of the general energy dashboard are much wider in landscape mode.

@rossco5551 11 ай бұрын

These HACs solutions look good. I think it's the individual entities card that's most lacking but. Having to manually maintain a list of power sub-consumers is tedious (and not even done in the config of the card itself). There should be a way to use something like the auto-entities card to grab these devices using filters. Obviously you can do this for instantaneous values, but not reactive to the date range card you've talked about.

@typxxilps 11 ай бұрын

great progress but I would also appreciate sometimes in the future a bit more of the most usefull features inside these new cards. A dedicated video would make it a lot easier i guess to find and set the right focus on just a few topics. I have no glue what to expect but i was in the same situation when I clicked this video except I am not that happy with the usual energy dashboard. Thumbs up and thanks a lot !

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Noted! That's always a double-edged sword. One of next videos will be focused on only one integration from HACS - but people tend to skip does videos. That's why I decided to go with this more "overview" than in-depth. I'll try to do something about them in future.

@jerseyman99 11 ай бұрын

I think we need to add a tutorial on how to use the Home Assistant Help pages! Try as I might I cannot find the "Energy card" page referenced in this tutorial.

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

FIXED - added a link to documentation on that one too in video description :) www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/energy/

@EsotericArctos 11 ай бұрын

I've slowly been getting energy monitoring devices to allow me to monitor energy in the home. I don't have solar or wind, but I do get "green" energy from the grid. I am slowly seeing times when more green, cheaper energy is available and how much energy the home uses so I can start using energy in greener times. I would not be able to do that without the monitoring in Home Assistant :)

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

My solar is more of "proof of concept" than full install, but it's great for testing things I couldn't otherwise. Our electricity prices are fixed for period of 6 (12) months by government - nobody even knows that are current prices on open market here.

@PatrickBulteel 11 ай бұрын

Around 4:20 mark you're talking about the self-consumed card - this should be 100% if like you say, you're never sending solar to the grid, but are consuming all of it. Also, in the main panel (where you have peak and off peak) you should also show the amount of solar consumed (as an orange/yellow) so if you consume 4kWh but you were generating 1kWh, that should show a 1kWh yellow/orange band and the rest would be blue. You're either missing something in the Energy dashboard or hasn't been setup properly. Great video though!

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

I don't have return to the grid set in the Dashboard as I don't return anything to return grid. This system is not intended to return any extra power to utility grid, and that's probably why I don't see it. I do see how much from solar was consumed out of total, that part works ok. Plus difference in pulled from grid vs total consumed.

@dluik Ай бұрын

Great video - thanks as always. I would like to add a simple card that shows how much i spent on energy yesterday. Can this be done with these stock energy cards or do i absolutely need to play about / install “utility Meter”?

@CliffordFullerton 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I like! But ever considered installing more solar panels, so you can finally produce the power you're consuming? 😁

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

That's the plan! But since it's not very "legal" here to do it like that, and I still have to move on roof one I have, it's always low priority...

@chrisdixon5241 11 ай бұрын

Nice! Do you know how the predicted solar energy is calculated? Is it coming from your inverter or some other source?

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! There is an Integration in Home Assistant called Forecast solar - www.home-assistant.io/integrations/forecast_solar/ I use that. It predicts based on historical data and weather information for your area what is potential.

@TheNikesh85 8 ай бұрын

Hi Andrej, what is the graph (bar) card that you are using to monitor each device? Does the selector card automatically change that too? Thanks a lot for ur videos BTW

@BeardedTinker 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately no. That's just mini-graph-card from HACS. I can't change (that way) how it shows data.

@vonis22 11 ай бұрын

Quick question, do you calculate the usage of individual devices or do you have power meter smart plugs ?

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

I have combo. Few devices (smart) report power usage, a lot of them have Shelly Plug S to monitor power usage (and turn them on/off). While for others, I use Power Calc (there is a video about it on my channel) to calculate power usage based on device state (for example light colour and brightness).

@leonsinko4328 6 ай бұрын

hi, how to get awesome energy (in my dashboards is no AWESOME) and how to setup data from mqtt source?

@bartluyckx4668 5 ай бұрын

Very nice video. I am trying to configure my own energie dashboard based on the information in your video. Alle information is showed properly in the normal dashboard but in the custom dashboard I see a lot of zeros. I use the following custom ones energy-period-selector-plus ==> this is working energy-flow-card-plus ==> this is working For all the others use the original ones and I ave just added them all like this at the end of my custom dashboard. Like this. - type: energy-usage-graph - type: energy-solar-graph - type: energy-grid-neutrality-gauge - type: energy-sources-table energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-solar-consumed-gauge - type: energy-devices-graph energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-carbon-consumed-gauge - type: energy-self-sufficiency-gauge But all the original ones do not show any value. Any idea what can be wrong ? Thanks in advance Luxy

@BeardedTinker 4 ай бұрын

That's not an easy answer. Sometimes having both old and new card for energy can block access to one of them. Also, one of the reasons for that can be missing original period selector.

@bartluyckx4668 4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker th

@bartluyckx4668 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your answer. One day after I posted this, it started working properly. I suspect having negative valies in some energie sensors caused this issue but not sure. @@BeardedTinker

@ayubmuhammad1210 4 ай бұрын

i hv two solar stings in my inverter both are operational. this card only show pv1, if my generator starts its not showing generator input, when generator start production it start showing incorrect value at home load

@mikemitchelle1723 11 ай бұрын

So this is a bit off topic, but do you happen to know how to purge data from the HA database but KEEP the energy data for the year? My db has almost reached 2gb and it is dragging HA to a crawl.

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

Sorry, but no. You could try manual database select/delete but it will take some time to get everything out. Or you could play with include/exclude in history and reduce purge to 1-2 days. But I haven't done anything similar so far.

@mikemitchelle1723 11 ай бұрын

I’ll look into that, thank you!

@CliffordFullerton 11 ай бұрын

In iobroker I had influxdb running in a seperate container. Data would be written there - and then Grafana could turn that into graphs and bars. I just recently migrated to Home Assistant, but a brief search produced results for Home Assistant and influxdb

@YoutubeSalvatrucha 5 ай бұрын

can u change the size of the cards ? i wanna make it big like on original energy dashboard

@BeardedTinker 5 ай бұрын

Not out of box unfortunately.

@TheFlyingKiwiNZ Ай бұрын

Nice video but you didn't show how to add the entities to these graphs....

@BeardedTinker Ай бұрын

07:47 for example?

@hotmonitor 11 ай бұрын

if install Energy Period Selector Plus + card type: energy-usage-graph have a problem no data 2 hours. after 24 hours problem is the same. When first time install card works correct.

@BeardedTinker 11 ай бұрын

I've seen this on my system too. Pressing Shift+ F5/clearing cache helped. Others have had similar issue. To test, try to add original date selector (type: energy-date-selection) and use it to move days back/forth.

@hotmonitor 11 ай бұрын

@user-wk8yg1nl6e 8 ай бұрын

I have the same problem. In the built-in energy panel of the home assistant, the energy graph works correctly. But when I add the graphics card in a dashboard that I create, the card doesn't work. It says missing information and I have to wait two hours. What have I tried? Twice it started working briefly when I was scrolling through the days and then stopped again....And as I said in the built-in energy panel there are no problems at all! Help!

@Nomadnik_ 3 ай бұрын

how can i make this energycard with reactjs proj ??

@BeardedTinker 3 ай бұрын

Sorry didn't get it.

@docart9669 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video! And is it possible to create automation in Home Assistant for a solar inverter with the Tuya app, which has a software option to adjust the output power, so that the output power is equal to or less than the consumption in the apartment? Using the smart Tuya meter. The main goal is to prevent the leakage of excess energy back into the grid. thank you

@BeardedTinker 4 ай бұрын

Not that I know or better to say, I think it wouldn't be that easy. This is very dynamic and can be a problem to set.

@docart9669 4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker It is not easy, but this question worries many owners of balcony solar stations. Maybe someone knows the solution 🤔

@BeardedTinker 4 ай бұрын

Question is - why would you want to do that? In normal situation, there is no issue with export of extra power in the network, you just don't get paid for that. Talked with bunch of people who have the same system (including me) and I see no point in doing that.

@mark82421 5 ай бұрын

Stupid question (if there are stupid questions 🙂) can you point me to a video how to copy these commands in HA? sorry total newbie ......

@BeardedTinker 5 ай бұрын

There are now stupid questions - only my stupid answers 😂 But seriously what exactly did you have in mind? Copy commands where?

@dluik Ай бұрын

I had the same question eg how to paste this “type: energy-date-selection” into HA. I went to add a card and then pasted this. HA spotted it wanted a manual card and opened up a Yaml interface.

@ricobass0253 5 ай бұрын

You keep referring to everything as power, even when pointing to energy graphs. I have to look carefully to see if the label is kW or kWhr to see what you really mean. Very confusing.

@BeardedTinker 5 ай бұрын

But it does keep you on your toes...