Using MQTT - To get decision making back to HA Dashboard

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I added this to Home Assistant's main config, putting sensors into HA. This can then be populated with Node Red, if you wish to see why choices are made. I found it helpful seeing from a mobile phone what's going on.

HA configuration.yaml:

mqtt: sensor: - name: "Curtailment Status" state_topic: "curtailment_message" - name: "Slowcharge Status" state_topic: "slowcharge_message" - name: "InverterMode Status" state_topic: "invertermode_message" - name: "Preserve Status" state_topic: "preserve_message"

Add an MQTT Node for each message sensor you want to populate:

Plus a little GetMsg javascript to pass the message along.

I'm a pretty new to HA and Node Red, so there may be a better way. Once you have the messages you want, you just add them into your HA Dashboard like any other sensors. I modified some of the verbose decision messages to shorter versions and put the buy or sell price into them to make them more meaningful.