Solar Battery Status (Home Assistant)
Use with Home Assistant Blueprint
Shows the battery charge level with a 20 % step icon, color-coded text and a progress bar.
- Topic
- Smarthome
- Includes
- Flow
Runs on
- Runs on 32×8 (TC001 & DIY)
- Does not run on 52×16 (TC002) Made for 32×8 (TC001 & DIY).
- Does not run on 32×8 with AWTRIX 3 (TC001 & DIY) Made for AWTRIX NG.
Flow description
Shows the battery charge level of your solar battery on your AWTRIX NG display (32×8) as a pushed app.
- Icon
bat00...bat100in 20 % steps (rounded to the nearest step) - Text color from red to green by the same step
- Progress bar with the exact charge level. With the optional power sensor it is green while charging, orange while discharging and white when idle (tolerance default 5 W). Without it the bar uses the text color.
Requirements
- Home Assistant with the MQTT integration
- AWTRIX NG with MQTT and Home Assistant discovery enabled (the display must provide the
mqtt_prefixsensor) - A sensor with the battery charge in percent
Setup
- Install the six icons
bat00,bat20,bat40,bat60,bat80andbat100from the AWTRIX Hub (searchbat, Send to AWTRIX). The names are fixed. - Import the blueprint into Home Assistant and create an automation from it.
- Select your display, the battery sensor and optionally a battery power sensor.
- Set the app order once on the display. The app is named
solar_battery.
The app is updated on every sensor change and every 5 minutes, and disappears after 6 minutes without an update.
Source and more blueprints: https://github.com/foundnobetter/ha-blueprints
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