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Solar energy in Home Assistant (lemmy.world)
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I recently got solar installed at my place and was wondering if anyone had tips on things like:

  • Using the Energy dashboard effectively
  • Template Sensors I should set up for energy tracking
  • Graphs or visualising production/usage in dashboards
  • Automations that you've used to help save using energy from the grid
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For reference: smart meters like Kamstrup are in use all over the EU. Example of a p1 dongle is the "smart meter gateway" which can be read from home assistant via the DSMR integration or directly from mqtt.

This would give you the counters for exactly how much you have pulled from and pushed into the grid.

Can confirm this will integrate nicely into the energy dashboard.

And biggest tip: when you have configured everything, it will take up to 2 hours before any data is visible from the energy dashboard. This screwed me over quite a bit, needless to say :-)