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Home assistant home battery simulator - allows you to model how much energy you would save with a home battery
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Recommended display card? #4

Closed littlbee closed 2 years ago

littlbee commented 2 years ago

Do you have any specific lovelace card that would properly show the sensor's attributes (charging/discharging status, charged % etc) ?

hif2k1 commented 2 years ago

Good idea, I'm going to make sure the core functionality is working first. If you or anyone else wants to make one though I'll happily add it on.

Plawasan commented 2 years ago

I'm using the built-in gauge card:

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@hif2k1 - It might work better to present the additional values (%, cost saved etc) in separate entities and not in attributes, that way they can be easily included in existing cards without having to create template entities to extract attributes from the single battery sim entity. Less work for you, easier to integrate for the user.

spudje commented 2 years ago

I'm looking for a way to (graphically) compare my actual net consumption vs what I would have saved using the simulated battery, over the day. Not just the actual figures, they don't tell me much. Anyone has any suggestions?

hif2k1 commented 2 years ago

I'm looking for a way to (graphically) compare my actual net consumption vs what I would have saved using the simulated battery, over the day. Not just the actual figures, they don't tell me much. Anyone has any suggestions?

I use the history graph card for this. Eventually might develop a dedicated card, but this does the job for now.

hif2k1 commented 2 years ago

I'm using the built-in gauge card:

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@hif2k1 - It might work better to present the additional values (%, cost saved etc) in separate entities and not in attributes, that way they can be easily included in existing cards without having to create template entities to extract attributes from the single battery sim entity. Less work for you, easier to integrate for the user.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will have a look at that. I'm not sure if there is any HA convention on what should be a separate entity and what should be an attribute.