Adding Wallbox & Heat Pump Data to Powerwall Dashboard (InfluxDB)

[dakky]

Greetings!

Until now I’ve been using Home Assistant with the Tesla Powerwall integration. Unfortunately, the integration isn’t very well maintained and often breaks with Tesla firmware updates. Long story short: I’d like to give Powerwall Dashboard a try.

From what I can see, the data is stored in InfluxDB. In Home Assistant I also monitor my wallbox (go-e) and my heat pump (via Shelly). I’d like to have those metrics in the dashboard as well, so I can track where the power in my house is going (heat pump, wallbox, remaining consumers).

Is it upgrade-safe to store this extra data in InfluxDB?

And what’s the best approach to add my wallbox and heat pump data to the setup?

I’m still a little bit lost 😅 Any guidance would be much appreciated!

EDIT: And how update safe is it, to add custom labels to powerwall.yml? I need them for traefik (reverse proxy)

[youzer-name]

I have several other databases on my PWD InfluxDB instance and no issues with using the upgrade scripts.

[jasonacox]

Yes, @youzer-name is right. There is nothing in the upgrade.sh script that would impact your extra data being stored in InfluxDB. I would still backup your influxdb data on a regular basis.

[jasonacox]

And what’s the best approach to add my wallbox and heat pump data to the setup?

The setup.sh and upgrade.sh scripts are meant to support a more turn-key installation to make it easy for someone to get a dashboard up and running from scratch. Savvy users are welcome to use the manual path. We have several that do not use the helper scripts and even have custom metrics, influxdb setups or dashboards. There are many ways to get data into Influxdb and once there, Grafana can be used to visualize it.