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Joerg Heinemann edited this page May 24, 2023 · 21 revisions

Huawei FusionSolar alternative dashboard proposals

Under construction and to be verified ...

  • Dashboards Ideas/Proposals only.
  • Alpha version at this stage. Especially the persistant template sensors should be validated by the community.
  • No support by "Huawei Solar" integration.
  • Not for HA beginners ...

Already opened Discussion: Wiki > Dashboard #355

Level One

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To be constructed by your own based on Level Two - Row 2.

Level Two

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Dashboard Row Cards Integration Custom Sensors Cards
Level Two 1 Weather (Hourly) Weather integration TBD by your own custom:hourly-weather
Level Two 2 Power Flows (Now)
Solar Power
Battery Capacity
Battery Status
Self Sufficiency
Inverter Temp.
Misc. Status
Energy Flows (Today)
Huawei Solar Solar Yield
Battery Status
Battery Corrections
Power Flows
Energy Flows
custom:power-flow-card-plus
custom:energy-flow-card-plus
gauge
custom:vertical-stack-in-card
custom:mushroom-template-card
Level Two 2 Solar Forecast Solcast Solar Power Flows
Remaining Solar Forecast
custom:apexcharts-card
Level Two 3 Solar Yield - Self Use
Solar Yield - Self Sufficiency
Solar Yield - Usage (Today)
House - Consumption (Today)
Inverter - Input/Output (Today)
Inverter - Loss (Today)
Huawei Solar Solar Yield
Energy Flows
Battery Corrections
custom:apexcharts-card

Level Three

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Dashboard Column Integration Custom Sensors Cards Background Image Image Size
Level Three 1 Huawei Solar All Custom Sensors picture-elements
custom:bar-card
sun2000-luna2000.png 800 x 628 px
Level Three 2 Huawei Solar All Custom Sensors custom:apexcharts-card

Upload picture-elements card background image to HA www image folder /config/www/images/huawei-solar and ensure that the image size will not change.

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Level Four

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Dashboard Column Integration Custom Sensors Cards Background Image Image Size
Level Four 1 Huawei Solar All Custom Sensors picture-elements sun2000-luna2000-power-energy-flows.png 953 x 508 px
Level Four 2 Huawei Solar All Custom Sensors custom:power-flow-card-plus
custom:energy-flow-card-plus

Upload picture-elements card background image to HA www image folder /config/www/images/huawei-solar and ensure that the image size will not change.

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Requirements

Huawei Solar integration Sensors

  • All Sensors shiped by Huawei Solar Integration, including the Diagnostic and the less popular sensors which are disabled by default.

    • The less popular to be enabled after installation by going to the settings page of the relevant device, clicking on +XX entities not shown, clicking in the relevant sensor and then clicking Enable in the settings window.
  • All advandced Configuration sensors by using the elevate permissions feature.

    • To be activated during Integration installation.
    • The advanced Configuration sensors are extremely useful especially for battery management/control.

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Overview

Inverter Power Meter Battery
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Custom Sensors

Huawei Solar integration only exposes the information and functions made available by Huawei Solar inverters firmware, directly via one of its Modbus interfaces in Home Assistant.

But under specific conditions Inverter, Battery and Power Meter figures do not fit together and/or are incomplete.

A couple of adaptations are required to archieve an reliable reporting and monitoring:

Integration Custom sensors Subfolder Package name Description
Huawei Solar Solar Yield packages huawei-solar-yield-package.yaml Yield of solar panels and required corrections for efficiency losses or overproduction by the inverter.
Huawei Solar Battery Status packages huawei-solar-battery-card-package.yaml
Huawei Solar Battery Corrections packages huawei-solar-battery-correction-package.yaml
Huawei Solar Diagnostics packages huawei-solar-diagnostic-package.yaml
Huawei Solar Power Flows packages huawei-solar-power-flow-card-package.yaml
Huawei Solar Energy Flows packages huawei-solar-energy-flow-card-package.yaml
Solcast Solar Remaining Solar Forecast packages solcast-solar-package.yaml Improvements to archive the most accurate remaining solar forecast actually (this minute)

Include above package files into configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  packages:
    huawei_solar_yield: !include packages/huawei-solar-yield-package.yaml
    huawei_solar_battery_card: !include packages/huawei-solar-battery-card-package.yaml
    huawei_solar_battery_correction: !include packages/huawei-solar-battery-correction-package.yaml
    huawei_solar_diagnostic: !include packages/huawei-solar-diagnostic-package.yaml
    huawei_solar_power_flow_card: !include packages/huawei-solar-power-flow-card-package.yaml
    huawei_solar_energy_flow_card: !include packages/huawei-solar-energy-flow-card-package.yaml
    solcast_solar: !include packages/solcast-solar-package.yaml

Overview

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Calculations

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Lovelace Cards

Custom Cards to be installed via HACS as recommended by the card developer.

  • No support by "Huawei Solar" integration.
Name Installation Description
custom:card-mod 3 HACS Allows you to apply CSS styles to various elements of the Home Assistant frontend.
custom:layout-card HACS Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards.
vertical-stack N/A Group multiple cards so they always sit in the same column.
horizontal-stack N/A Group multiple cards, so they always sit in the same line.
custom:vertical-stack-in-card HACS Group multiple cards into a single sleek card.
custom:hourly-weather HACS Hourly weather card for Home Assistant.
custom:power-flow-card-plus HACS Display current power, gas, and water usage in a display that matches the official Energy Distribution card.
custom:energy-flow-card-plus HACS Display current energy, gas, and water usage in a display that matches the official Energy Distribution card.
gauge N/A The Gauge card is a basic card that allows visually seeing sensor data.
custom:apexcharts-card HACS A higly customizable graph card.
custom:mushroom HACS Mushroom is a collection of cards for Home Assistant Dashboard UI.
picture-elements N/A Position icons or text and even services on an image based on coordinates.
custom:bar-card HACS Customizable Animated Bar card.

Potentially a couple of Custom Cards are missing in above listing. Please crosscheck and report in Dashboard Discussion.

Colors for Entities within Dashboard Cards

Solar Forecast        :  Grey

Batterie              : '#f06292'
Batterie Capacity     : '#f06292'

Battery-In            : '#f06292'
Battery-Out           : '#4db6ac'

Solar                 : '#ff9800'

Inverter Active Power : Yellow

Grid                  : '#488fc2'
Grid In               : '#488fc2'
Grid Out              : '#a280db'

House / Load          :  MediumAquaMarine
Non Fossil            : '#0f9d58'
Individual One        : '#d0cc5b'
Individual Two        : '#964cb5'

Dashboard Cards

It is mandatory to create each Dashboard page by using the view type Grid (layout-card).

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To add a card (row) select the Manual option and insert the YAML code as below.

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