Home Energy Management - Part 2 - Where Apple Home failed me.
The Default Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant In late May of 2023 I had 5.8kW of solar panels an Inverter and a 6kW home battery system installed. The system itself, the inverter and battery are from a Chinese company called Fox, comes with an app but I didn't find it to be terribly useful. It's too hard to read, as the UI puts too much information in one graph. FoxESS graph of the same information Unfortunately and inexplicably, in my opinion, Apple had chosen to not do anything around energy management even though some vendors were already using it as a differentiator for their devices, such as Eve. That seems to be changing now, slowly, but I don't see any UK energy companies working with Apple and that is at a macro level. I want to see what is going on in my house. I had been keeping my eye on Home Assistant (HA) for a while and was aware of their move into Energy Management, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Initially, I was on EDF as a supplier, but they didn...
