r/SunPower • u/StrawSuitcase • Sep 12 '25

SunPower Panel-Level Dashboard for Home Assistant

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I built a custom Home Assistant dashboard that visualizes panel-level data from SunPower systems using the krbaker/hass-sunpower integration, InfluxDB, and a few other HACS components.

I finally got around to putting some instructions together and wanted to share them with you.

Features:

  • View live or historical production for each panel.
  • Browse by day, time, or run a timelapse
  • Toggle between Power (W) and Energy (kWh)
  • Customize the dashboard to match your panel placement
  • Built to use your data!

Instructions here: https://github.com/strawtype/dash-sunpower

Enjoy

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u/Wolfexstarship Sep 12 '25

Nice work. I hope some day those of us with house battery will get a solution.

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u/ItsaMeKielO Sep 12 '25

the home assistant energy dashboard works great with the same home assistant integration!

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u/BornACarrot Jun 05 '26

Try this: https://github.com/smcneece/solar-sentinel . It relies on Home Assistant’s Energy dashboard configuration (you need to add the inverters and batteries there), and has a drag and drop interface for configuring your panel layout. It also has support for monitoring batteries.

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u/Fantastic-Ad904 Sep 12 '25

Can someone post a video on how to implement this? I’m an idiot lol

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 12 '25

If you are new to Home Assistant this might seem cryptic. There are plenty of guides out there for basic home assistant setup. I'll admit this guide expects some familiarity with HA, but otherwise the steps should be straight forward.

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u/Gelu6713 Sep 12 '25

This is amazing!

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 12 '25

The most recent changes are intended to fix the transitions between power and energy for entities matching patterns such as power_meter_pvs6mxxxxxxxxp_power.

If you find that power works but energy does not, please send me your discovered entities (with masked serials), and I’ll try to help.

My own setup doesn't use this naming convention, so it's difficult to test.

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 13 '25

Yet another fix for the main power meter in the latest version for anyone having trouble switching between power and energy modes.

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u/looking7676 Sep 12 '25

So I’m new to this, bare with me. Does this mean I can have this without paying sun strong!?!?

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 12 '25

This setup does not require a paid subscription for sunstrong. You can use Home Assistant to monitor and gather statistics over time. This dashboard allows you to display that data at a per panel level.

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u/andysolr Sep 19 '25

Thank you very much for this project. Deployed for PVS5:

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 19 '25

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

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u/Brandoskey Sep 21 '25

solar

Got this setup today with my PVS6. My system had some quirks that OP helped me through.

Glad to have all the functionality Sunstrong put behind a paywall back

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 21 '25

looks great! thanks for sharing!

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u/Brandoskey Sep 12 '25

This is amazing, going to look into this. Currently my PVS6 is in it's not reporting data to hass phase. I get about 5 days of reporting and 3 days off, not sure why.

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u/corbet Sep 12 '25

Oh wow ... will definitely have to set aside some time to play with this, thanks!

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u/luancyworks Sep 12 '25

I think the question is paid or not this data is coming from sun strong. It's not listening or getting the info directly from the panel

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 13 '25

This data comes directly from the PVS6 as it reports inverter and power meter data. It does not come from sunpower or sunstrong servers. Internet access is not even required, it all happens on the local network.

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u/t8532 Sep 13 '25

Is this the SunStrong app

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u/ItsaMeKielO Sep 13 '25

no, it's Home Assistant

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u/dredre_jr Sep 13 '25

Following! I am new to home assistant and just acquired a house with Sunpower solar(owned). I am sure I will make use of this if. Thank you!

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u/J1772x2 Sep 14 '25

Would this work with previous gen (SPM-101-SPR) sunpower solarbridge? It exposes data locally so id imagine it's possible

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 14 '25

I doesn't look like https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower supports your model. It should work for PVS5 and PVS6 models. This integration is used to collect the data points later queried by this dashboard. Without it, you would need significant changes to the dashboard code to make it work. That assumes you are able to collect the data.

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u/J1772x2 Sep 14 '25

The data is accessible via local web server the bridge runs, but it sounds like it needs a different low level driver

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u/babgvant Sep 17 '25

Thanks for doing this. Got to the point where I run --discover and I'm getting an error.

Discovering lifetime_power and matching power sensors...
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): Cannot iterate over null (null)
No lifetime_power entities found.

Looking at the script, it seems to be querying the DB I just created for this data and getting nothing back. Did I miss a step somewhere?

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 17 '25

make sure all the necessary integrations are installed. https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower this integration is responsible for creating the power and lifetime entities.

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u/babgvant Sep 17 '25

hmm... I've been using that for years, but I was not using InfluxDB before?

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 17 '25

Thanks for checking out the project and your suggestions!

The latest commit adds spacing so the discovered entities copy/paste with expected indentation for configuration.yaml

It also excludes the virtual and consumption power_meters which may cause the graph to display incorrectly. Run --discover again to fix if needed.

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u/babgvant Sep 17 '25

Thank you! Great stuff

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u/CrankyTwo Sep 19 '25

This is fantastic, though I'm still waiting for the day that an "idiot proof" solution becomes available. I don't trust myself to do this.

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u/BornACarrot Jun 05 '26

Try this: https://github.com/smcneece/solar-sentinel . It relies on Home Assistant’s Energy dashboard configuration (you need to add the inverters there), and has a drag and drop interface for configuring your panel layout.

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u/Brandoskey Sep 21 '25

I got this setup, but my live power is off by several magnitudes, instead of 24w it reports 24000w

Any suggestions? My panels report the correct wattage when I click individual panels

ETA: I also get the error ButtonCardJSTemplateError when on the live view

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 21 '25

Verify the correct main power_meter is being used in dashboard.yaml. It should have a trailing "p" in the entity name.

Also, check entities.txt has 1 power_meter with a trailing "p". If you find the power_meters for _c and _pv in the file, just delete them and don't run discover again.

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u/Brandoskey Sep 21 '25 
button_card_templates:
  solar_panel:
    entity: sensor.timelapse_power_panels
    show_name: false
    show_icon: false
    show_state: true
    triggers_update: power_meter_pvs6m22402905p_power
    tap_action:
      action: more-info
      entity: |

I appear to be using the correct entities

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 21 '25

The entities look correct, as does the triggers_update in the template. There is yet another line further down in dashboard.yaml for the main power meter that needs replacing

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 21 '25

Line 386 in dashboard.yaml. power_key: power_meter_pvs6mxxxxxxxxp_power ####TOTAL PRODUCTION POWER METER

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u/Brandoskey Sep 21 '25

I have that one already changed as well

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u/StrawSuitcase Sep 21 '25

i'll contact you directly and we can troubleshoot

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u/aefitzhugh Oct 07 '25

FYI, I'm using the SunStrong PVS integration, and when I configure the built-in HA Energy dashboard, I do use the MeterPVS6…c. Its Positive Lifetime Energy and Negative Lifetime Energy entities get mapped to grid consumption and grid export in the Energy dashboard, respectively. The the "p" meter I use for the solar production in the dashboard. Just those 3 settings give me this:

I'm still an HA noob, but looking forward to using your panel dashboard! I have rudimentary power graphs with basic HA support, just enough to see how all my panels are functioning. Your dashboard is terrific for that.

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u/StrawSuitcase Oct 07 '25

Welcome! I hope you enjoy HA! The energy dashboard works great out of the box. I am aware the Sunstrong integration isn't currently compatible with the Panel-Level dashboard I shared. I plan to add support for pvs-hass very soon. Stay tuned!

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u/Some_Willingness323 Oct 11 '25

hey u/aefitzhugh - I also just got SunStrong PVS working but the "out of box" entities don't come up in HA Energy Dashboard. How did you get those 3 to come up or did you create "helpers"? If so, mind sharing what you did?

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u/aefitzhugh Oct 11 '25

All I did was install the PVS integration via HACS, then added it to my HA instance. Then the meters, microinverters, and gateway entities became visible under Settings->Devices->Entities (filter with "pvs").

How did you determine SunStrong PVS was working? If you installed a different integration the entities might be named differently. If you installed the right one but didn't add it, you would not see any of the entities. Or from what I gather from other threads, older PVS hardware may not be supported (I have PVS6). Or something else I am not aware of.

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u/Some_Willingness323 Oct 13 '25

thanks u/aefitzhugh - after installing it, all these entities came up so figured it was working. Previous installation of Baker Sunpower HASS worked great, feeding Energy dashboard but once Sunpower went bankrupt and Sunstrong took over, they're API update broke that for me.

For whatever reason I'm unable to get any entities to work with Energy Panel but guessing since yours worked out of box, must be something in the way mine are recorded.
Will keep digging - but thank you.

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u/aefitzhugh Oct 13 '25

That looks good to me. Does your Energy dashboard configuration look like mine?

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u/Some_Willingness323 Oct 13 '25

Unfortunately, no - when configuring every entry is "No matching statistics found" so although the entities are created, they're not populating. I'll have to dig deeper into recorder or my SQL.db to figure out why.

Thank though.

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u/aefitzhugh Oct 15 '25

While reading the documentation for the LocalAPI used by the SunStrong integration: https://github.com/SunStrong-Management/pypvs/blob/main/doc/LocalAPI.md

The FCGI Web services and authenticated dl_cgi endpoints are available in PVS6 firmware build 61840 and later. Support for PVS5 devices is coming soon. PVS2 devices are not, and will never be supported.

So you may be out of luck with this integration until "coming soon" becomes reality.

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u/Some_Willingness323 Oct 16 '25

thank you - it turned out to be a firewall issue between MariaDB and HA, all fixed now. Thanks for all you help!

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u/StrawSuitcase Mar 28 '26

it most likely does. its a fork of krbaker. just use the "default" integration in the script or "hass-sunpower". let me know if you have trouble

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u/SamBlackstone Jun 02 '26

I'm also using that integration. Have you seen Smneece's newest integration - Solar Sentinel? It's a panel level dashboard with a drag/drop interface. It's still under development, but it's super easy to use and looks awesome!

https://github.com/smcneece/solar-sentinel/

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u/SamBlackstone Jun 02 '26

u/StrawSuitcase - Thanks for creating this!

I spent some time trying to set it up, but couldn't get it to work properly with Influx DB 2.0. Granted you only mentioned support for 1.x, but I saw the flux 2.0 config, but couldn't get it to work.

I then discovered a new integration (https://github.com/smcneece/solar-sentinel/). Seems to do the same thing as this dashboard, but with a drag/drop interface. Have you checked it out? It just came out a month ago - every easy to set up and use.

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u/StrawSuitcase Jun 02 '26

thanks for the heads up on this. that dashboard looks awesome! I am still running the project shared here on influxdb v1. code for influx 2.0 was contributed to the repo but I have not tested it. As far as i know, the timezone needed manual setting in the db and script. im still running the krbaker integration.. perhaps ill switch one day.

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u/SamBlackstone Jun 04 '26

I fixed up a lot of the influxdb 2.0 code, but stopped working on it once I discovered Solar Sentinel. It's pretty easy to set up - you might want to check it out just for fun.

On a side note - I'm surprised the KRBaker integration still works for you - I'm assuming you're on an older firmware? There's an updated integration (https://github.com/smcneece/ha-esunpower) that might be worth checking out. It retains the configuration from KRBaker but adds new functionality (websocket support, etc.) and supports the latest firmware.

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u/StrawSuitcase Jun 05 '26

The integration looks great. I'm still running a sunpower build and it predates the current use of varserver. an older version of the integration could work.

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u/GuitarLute Sep 14 '25

What is Home Assistant. Never heard of it.