Living with it

The dashboard, the overrides, and the two panels that show what EOS Connect has worked out for itself.

Living with it

The dashboard shows the current plan: forecast solar, forecast prices, what the battery is being told to do and why. Change any setting behind the gear icon.

  • Override the battery by hand when you know something the optimizer does not — a set duration, then it hands control back.
  • Settings apply live where they safely can; the ones that need a restart are marked with a restart badge.
  • Back up before you experiment — there is a whole-install export and restore in Settings.

Update notifications

Running the Docker image, EOS Connect checks the container registry for a newer release twice a day and shows a dismissible banner when it finds one. It never updates itself — pulling the new image stays your decision. Home Assistant add-on users get updates through Home Assistant instead, so the check is off.

What your stored energy actually cost

EOS Connect tracks what went into the battery and at what price, so a discharge decision compares against the real cost of that stored energy rather than a guess. It separates solar charging from grid charging, and detects your sensor's sign convention rather than assuming one.

Forecast auto-scaling

Solar forecasts are generic; your roof is not. Auto-scaling compares forecast against measured yield over a rolling window and applies a correction factor, so the plan stops being systematically optimistic about a shaded array. See the PV auto-scaling settings.

To see what it has learned — the scale factor per timeframe, how much history it is working from, and the forecast before and after correction — pick Menu › PV Auto-Scaling. The two figures in the Statistics tile's header open the same panel, but they only carry a value after the first optimization cycle; the menu entry always works.

Next steps