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An upgraded Energy Distribution Card for Home Assistant, with added features like Individual Devices and refined UI enhancements, while maintaining the Energy Dashboard's original design.
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[FEATURE REQUEST] Generator Input #66

Open corporategoth opened 11 months ago

corporategoth commented 11 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to have another 'input' being a generator.

Describe the solution you'd like Another input that functions similarly to the 'grid', but that is for a generator (could be 'multiple grids'). It can't receive any power back (like a regular grid), it's consumer only. Ideally, it would also be able to have an off-shoot which could be used to show consumption (eg. natural gas consumption), the same way the grid can show non-fossil fuel consumption.

This should work for natural gas / propane, petrol, hydro, etc. style generators. Anything generating power locally that's not solar.

Describe alternatives you've considered Hijack the solar input. But as mentioned, this is more meant for a backup generator style thing (as opposed to something constantly running).

In fact, it's likely the situation would be that either the generator OR grid would be supplying power, not both. So this could be some kind of 'second grid' style thing.

flixlix commented 10 months ago

Hi, thank you for your feature request.

Over at my Power Flow Card Plus, I made this feature available through a power outage scenario, like you described in the alternatives section, can you check it out and see wether implementing that feature here would suffice your needs?