Add the current ' Total Power / Load' to card

[Roving-Ronin]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Currently the card doesn't show the overall total consumption / load of power that is being consumed (at that moment).
Instead we only see the totals of Active Power coming from the grid, inverter (PV+Battery) and aux.

Expected behaviour

Show 'Total Power / Load' that is being consumed in the house at any moment

Possible Solutions

Doubt it could fit, but utopian would be above the essential 1 and essential 2 boxes on the top right of the card [showing 244W / 165W], so it could be a 2.30kW / 34.5kWh with a smaller 'Load / Daily Energy' underneath it) that would be like the 'Daily Solar / Left Today' on the left top of the card.

Alternatively the Active Load might be placed above the total energy:

Active Load / Daily Cons. are other descriptors that could be used to reduce the letter count in those examples also.?

Mode

Both

Context / Reason

Provide the total Power Consumption / Load being used at 'that moment' in the house, versus trying to manually add Inverter + Grid + AUX + Battery together, and by the time your mid way though that, find the readings have changed anyhow.

[slipx06]

Not sure about this. That aggregated view is probably better displayed on Power Flow Card Plus

I assume this is over a 24h period. Total active power/energy would = essential + non_essential + Aux. Its really only non_essential for which there is no daily energy displayed on the card. The others have daily energy and active power

[Roving-Ronin]

Hi @slipx06 not energy, I was referring to power. So having the total power that is being used in the house (essential/ non essential/ aux) and from all sources, at that instant.

So to use your screenshot above, it would be showing 1.72kW from Solar (and battery if you had one, as its 'via' the inverter output) + 4.38kW from Grid + AUX (IF it was providing power, such as if it had a generator attached) = 6.1kW Active Power being consumed in the house at that instant.

Taking it off the inverters output, grid import and aux import seems easier to do, as this means any missing to add devices into essential / non-essential (for inverters that don't specifically have a circuit / reading for them, would work also.
Alternatively if the card logic showed the current Active Power / Load of the house being used, based upon Essential + Non Essential, then other inverters could just define a template sensor to add the inverter output +aux import +grid import together and map card to that sensor ?