Built-in and Custom Energy & Power Cards in Home Assistant

Great video Andrej. Thank you. Lot to do again. 🙂

Great video!

I've been wanting to build a custom energy dashboard for some time. Your video has motivated me to finally get started on it. Thanks!

Thanks again for a very useful video about creating and maintaining a custom Energy Dashboard.

Energy flow customized ? 😮 , thanks very much for this very useful video 🎉😊

Thanks for the tips!

Energy Period Selector Plus... Never knew it existed and never understood why the built in card did not have a date selector, let alone a date range selector. Thank you so much!

Thanks for great content again BT .

I think we need to add a tutorial on how to use the Home Assistant Help pages! Try as I might I cannot find the "Energy card" page referenced in this tutorial.

Hey Andrej, what a coincidence. I was working on the exact same video a couple of weeks ago, but decided to give other things priority. Now I don't have to create this video anymore haha! Great work! ❤

Really intresting vidéo, I do think that a smart home should manage very well power consemption.

Thanks, Big help 👍

Many thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. The "Energy Period Selector Plus" is absolutely a big win. Do you have any idea how to make your custom energy dashboard with the same layout as the general energy dashboard? The graphs (energy-usage-graph, ...) of the general energy dashboard are much wider in landscape mode.

Thanks 👍🏼

These HACs solutions look good. I think it's the individual entities card that's most lacking but. Having to manually maintain a list of power sub-consumers is tedious (and not even done in the config of the card itself). There should be a way to use something like the auto-entities card to grab these devices using filters. Obviously you can do this for instantaneous values, but not reactive to the date range card you've talked about.

I've slowly been getting energy monitoring devices to allow me to monitor energy in the home. I don't have solar or wind, but I do get "green" energy from the grid. I am slowly seeing times when more green, cheaper energy is available and how much energy the home uses so I can start using energy in greener times. I would not be able to do that without the monitoring in Home Assistant :)

Around 4:20 mark you're talking about the self-consumed card - this should be 100% if like you say, you're never sending solar to the grid, but are consuming all of it. Also, in the main panel (where you have peak and off peak) you should also show the amount of solar consumed (as an orange/yellow) so if you consume 4kWh but you were generating 1kWh, that should show a 1kWh yellow/orange band and the rest would be blue. You're either missing something in the Energy dashboard or hasn't been setup properly. Great video though!

Very nice video. I am trying to configure my own energie dashboard based on the information in your video. Alle information is showed properly in the normal dashboard but in the custom dashboard I see a lot of zeros. I use the following custom ones energy-period-selector-plus ==> this is working energy-flow-card-plus ==> this is working For all the others use the original ones and I ave just added them all like this at the end of my custom dashboard. Like this. - type: energy-usage-graph - type: energy-solar-graph - type: energy-grid-neutrality-gauge - type: energy-sources-table energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-solar-consumed-gauge - type: energy-devices-graph energy_date_selection: true - type: energy-carbon-consumed-gauge - type: energy-self-sufficiency-gauge But all the original ones do not show any value. Any idea what can be wrong ? Thanks in advance Luxy

great progress but I would also appreciate sometimes in the future a bit more of the most usefull features inside these new cards. A dedicated video would make it a lot easier i guess to find and set the right focus on just a few topics. I have no glue what to expect but i was in the same situation when I clicked this video except I am not that happy with the usual energy dashboard. Thumbs up and thanks a lot !

Thanks! I like! But ever considered installing more solar panels, so you can finally produce the power you're consuming? 😁