flixlix / power-flow-card-plus

A power distribution card inspired by the official Energy Distribution card for Home Assistant
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[FEATURE REQUEST] Add Grid to Battery Flow #599

Open sammort opened 5 months ago

sammort commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I often charge my battery from the grid when cost is cheap. It would be great if the power flow card reflected the flow from the Grid to the Battery. At the moment charging the battery from the Grid will show the power drawn from the grid, the charging power at the battery and also Home will reflect the draw from the grid....this almost appears as a double counting of the grid draw as it is shown at both the battery and home.

Describe the solution you'd like

Describe alternatives you've considered No real alternative idea for this I'm afraid.

Additional context Current card shows battery charging but flow (and Grid draw power) is all shown to home image

sammort commented 5 months ago

I think this can be seen as a duplicate of https://github.com/flixlix/power-flow-card-plus/issues/385 and https://github.com/flixlix/power-flow-card-plus/issues/444

Essentially Grid to Battery (and Grid to Home) will only display correctly if there is Solar production. For my system that is never the case and I believe a lot of users will have batteries which charge from the grid to take advantage of time-of-use tariffs.

el-Presi commented 5 months ago

same here, and the flow was there in a previous version..:

https://github.com/flixlix/power-flow-card-plus/assets/47759077/eaff85d8-b81c-4730-a614-6308263b82c4