Home Assistant - Energy dashboard

Introduction

SolarAssistant provides energy usage metrics in the correct format for the Home Assistant Energy dashboard. You can supply them with either integration: the official integration exposes the energy totals as kWh sensors, and the MQTT integration publishes the same metrics over MQTT. Set up one of these first, then follow the steps below to complete the energy dashboard wizard.

The kWh totals are period-to-date, not lifetime counters. They start again from zero on the schedule set under Configuration › System › Reset energy totals on your SolarAssistant unit, weekly by default. Home Assistant handles the reset for you, so the energy dashboard still shows a continuous history.

Step 1 - Complete the Energy dashboard setup wizard

Open the energy dashboard to start a setup wizard of selecting all energy usage metrics. Alternatively you can find it under settings › dashboards › energy

Open Home Assistant energy dashboard

Select the grid consumption and export metrics.

Select grid consumption export metrics

Select "next".

Select next

Select the solar PV generation metric.

Select PV generation metrics

Select the battery energy in and out metrics.

Select battery energy in/out metrics

You can skip step 4 and 5 which is to select gas consumption and indivudual device metrics. Complete the wizard.

Go to energy dashboard