Looking for an 'energy distribution' chart for a home similar to

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Hello,

I'm searching for something like this energy distribution chart that I can push my data into, so that it can render a pretty 'animated flow' of energy amongst power consumption and power generation sources. pic attached. any hints or pointers are welcome, or suggestion that I would have to write one myself?? (hints here too would be great)...

Original picture taken from here - click expand to see the pic - sacrilege it talks about HA - please don't ban me :slight_smile:

Example-Energy-Distribution-animation-chart

https://powerforum.co.za/topic/8646-my-sunsynk-8kw-data-collection-setup/?do=findComment&comment=105938

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A couple of questions

  1. Where does your power data come from ?
  2. What are you running node red on ?

I looked around a lot earlier in the piece for something like this in Javascript and could not find anything - just did another quick search now and nothing either.

If that is important to you i would suggest maybe looking at spooling up a Docker instance of HA for this and feed your energy data into it through MQTT or you could look at the EmonCMS eco system as they have a number of solutions

Craig

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The power data comes from my own flows, including solar, battery, grid/consumption meter, and hybrid inverter for load etcetera

I get it in terms of adding in a docker/HA or EmonCMS, but thought I'd try to stay 'pure' in NR...

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Is it specifically the graphics that you are asking about. If so, I haven't used it but I believe that you can use node-red-contrib-ui-svg for such thngs. If you search the forum for svg you may find some useful posts.

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I had been talking with @hotNipi some time ago to implement a ui node for this Due to a lack of free time we did never continue with it. Perhaps he still has unfinished draft stuff that allows you to get started But perhaps not...

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@BartButenaers do you mean a node for fetching the data, or for generating graphics as shown by the OP?

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Colin,
It was supposed to be a ui node, so only visualization.
I thought that hotnipi had created a ui-template node mockup at the time being, which you could perhaps use as a starting point.
But I must have been mistaken, because I cannot find such an example flow anymore.
So forget about it. Sorry for the noise ...

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Am I right in thinking that the svg node can be used to generate displays such as the OP has shown?

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Yes, but you will to draw it yourself and do the animations of the wires yoursel also...

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OK, it isn't me that wants it, but I had suggested to the OP that the node might be capable of doing it. So the answer is yes it can, but it is not a trivial task.

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Ok thanks Colin I will search around, it appears it'll be a road into a place I don't often go - and that's pretty graphics!

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Have you looked at the openenergy.org site - you can easily feed anything from NR to a system hosted locally and they have lots of nicely built energy graphics.

Craig

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Craig - I don't think your URL is correct as I end-up at GoDaddy asking if I want to purchase this domain.

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