A feature-rich Lovelace card for Home Assistant, designed to display and control MakeSkyBlue MPPT solar controllers integrated via the Solar_Manager custom component.
This card provides a beautiful and comprehensive interface, closely resembling the native mobile app experience, with full localization support for English and Chinese.
- Dynamic Gauge: A beautiful semi-circular gauge to visualize real-time charging power.
- Complete Data Display: Clearly shows essential data like PV voltage, battery voltage, and battery current.
- Informative Panels: At-a-glance info boxes for the current charging mode and cumulative power generation.
- Full Localization: Automatically switches between English and Chinese based on your Home Assistant user profile settings. All labels and states are translated.
- Collapsible Sections: Keep your dashboard clean with expandable panels for Settings, Diagnostics, and historical Charts.
- Full Control: The Settings Panel allows you to adjust all configurable parameters of your MPPT controller, such as equalization voltage, battery type, etc.
- Device Diagnostics: The Diagnostics Panel provides tools to check device status (WiFi signal, SSID), toggle the LED, and trigger device restart or reset.
- Historical Charts: The Charts Panel displays 24-hour history graphs for power and voltage, allowing you to analyze performance over time.
- Simple Configuration: Just provide your device's unique serial number, and the card will automatically find all related entities.
The recommended way to install this card is through the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS).
- Go to HACS > Frontend.
- Click the three dots in the top right corner and select "Custom repositories".
- Add the URL of this repository (
https://github.com/maybetaken/ha-makeskyblue-mppt-card) and select the "Lovelace" category. - The "MakeSkyBlue MPPT Card" will now appear in your HACS list. Click on it and then click "Download".
- Follow the on-screen instructions to add the resource to your Lovelace dashboards.
Add a "Manual" card to your Lovelace dashboard and use the following configuration:
type: custom:ha-makeskyblue-mppt-card
device: m7g6fmpw3 # Required: The unique serial number of your device.
name: m7g6fmpw3 # Optional: A custom title for the card.
image: /local/makeskyblue-logo.png # Optional: URL for a brand logo to display at the top.
power_switch_entity: switch.your_mppt_power_switch # Optional: Your device's power switch entity ID.
battery_soc_entity: sensor.your_battery_soc_sensor # Optional: Your battery state of charge (SoC) entity ID.| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
type |
string | Yes | Must be custom:ha-makeskyblue-mppt-card. |
device |
string | Yes | The unique serial number part of your entity IDs. For example, if your entity is sensor.makeskyblue_mppt_m7g6fmpw3_pv_voltage, this should be m7g6fmpw3. The card will handle case-insensitivity. |
name |
string | No | A custom name for the card. If not provided, the serial number will be used. |
image |
string | No | A URL to a brand logo image. For local files, place the image in your /config/www/ directory and use the path /local/your_image.png. |
power_switch_entity |
string | No | If you have a separate switch entity to turn the device on/off, provide its full entity ID here. |
battery_soc_entity |
string | No | If you have a separate sensor entity for the battery's state of charge (SoC) percentage, provide its full entity ID here. |
- This card is designed to work with the Solar_Manager custom component.
- The development process was greatly assisted by the robust Home Assistant developer community.