Picture of a bare LCD on a PCB showing 4 horizontal bars
Line 1 has a 71% fill of red (a bug, should be green) and 71% to the left of it, it is the battery charge state.
Line 2 is actually 2 bars next to each other, the left for discharge and the right for charge, which is currently showing some green fill.
Line 3 is a partial green bar indicating solar production.
Line 4 is a partial red bar showing house power consumption.
I realized I had an unused PyPortal around, so yesterday evening I quickly hacked together a (solar, battery, house) power display. Pushing the data to it using MQTT.
Obviously want to make it prettier and include some more values on it, but quite functional […]
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