Is there any way to run Powerwall-Dashboard in a homeassistant environment?

[peter-mc]

Seems like this should be an ideal integration for homeassistant, but alas I can not find one.

Do I really need to dedicate a raspberry PI to just run Powerwall-Dashboard?

[youzer-name]

I'm not that familiar with Home Assistant, as I use Hubitat and Node Red for my home automation, but depending on the device you're using to host HA you may be able to also host PWD on the same hardware. Even if you can't, , I don't think it's fair to say you have to dedicate a Raspberry Pi to just run PWD. Since PWD runs under Docker, you just need a Docker host, and that host can run many services besides PWD.

My Raspberry Pi 4b that runs PWD also runs:

• Two containers for Owntracks (a self-hosted location tracking app, used for home automation presence sensing)
• An Uptime Kuma instance (used for monitoring device/service status)
• A second instance of Grafana where I have custom dashboards
• A PiHole DNS server/ad-blocker instance
• A second telegraf instance for logging metrics unrelated to PWD
• Portainer and portainer_agent for managing the containers

It could run more, but I have 3 Docker hosts on my LAN and spread the services across the various devices

So you may need to add a device to host Powerwall Dashboard, but you won't need to dedicate that device to only running PWD.

[jasonacox]

Seems like this should be an ideal integration for homeassistant, but alas I can not find one.

Good point. It has been on my backlog to try to make that easy to do (a connector/plugin for HA in addition to the Grafana stack). I'm not a HA expert so would love to have an HA guru do that for us. ;)

Do I really need to dedicate a raspberry PI to just run Powerwall-Dashboard?

No, as @youzer-name , many in the community are using existing hosts, VMs and even appliances to run the stack. I am running it on a LInux server, a Windows worksttions, and a few different RPis as my test platform.

[peter-mc]

@jasonacox

It has been on my backlog to try to make that easy to do (a connector/plugin for HA in addition to the Grafana stack).

Home Assistant does already have both InfluxDB and Grafana addons, so I guess its really a matter of making your scripts compatible with HA, including some of the dashboard ones in Grafana...

I'm not a HA expert so would love to have an HA guru do that for us. ;)

That makes two of us :), I've had a play with the supervised version of homeassistant, but it doesn't play well in that environment:

https://www.home-assistant.io/more-info/unsupported/software

I have managed to connect the HA Grafana addon to the InfluxDB your script install, and this sort of works, but really I have no idea what I'm doing :), and it is unsupported, with the odd hang/crash sometimes...

If I knew how to get your pypowerwall to populate the HA InfluxDB instance, instead and not install the Grafana/InfluxDB ones your script does, that would be even better! but a fully integrated addon package would be a lot better...

You can see some of the missing data in the default dashboard (Power Flow / Current State, etc), when running in supervised homeassistant here: