Understanding the Dashboard

When you first log in to Grid Getter, you land on the Live Dashboard — a real-time view of your entire Tesla energy system. Here’s a tour of what you’re looking at.

Power Flow

At the top of the dashboard is the power flow diagram. It shows the four main components of your energy system and how power is moving between them right now.

Solar — how much electricity your solar panels are currently generating (kW)

Battery — your Powerwall’s current state of charge (%) and whether it’s charging or discharging

Grid — whether you’re importing power from the utility (drawing from grid) or exporting (sending surplus back)

Home — your home’s total power consumption at this moment

The animated lines between nodes show the direction of power flow. For example:

Solar → Home: you’re running on solar power
Battery → Home: you’re running on stored battery power
Grid → Home: you’re drawing from the utility
Solar → Battery: excess solar is charging your battery
Solar → Grid: you’re exporting surplus solar

Automation Timeline

Below the power flow, the automation timeline shows which automations are scheduled for today and what time they’ll run.

If you haven’t created any automations yet, this section shows a prompt to get started. See Creating your first automation to set one up.

Energy Charts

Scroll down to see historical charts of your energy data. You can view:

5-minute intervals — great for understanding what happened during a specific event
Hourly — useful for seeing daily patterns
Daily — compare day-to-day and week-to-week
Monthly — see seasonal trends in solar production and grid usage

The charts track solar production, grid import, grid export, battery charge/discharge, and home consumption.

Battery

The battery panel shows:

State of charge: The current percentage, shown as a number and a visual indicator
Reserve setting: The minimum charge Grid Getter (and Tesla) will keep in reserve
Rate: How fast the battery is currently charging or discharging in kW

On Premium plans, you can adjust the battery reserve directly from this section.

DemandGuard (if active)

If you’ve set up a DemandGuard automation, a dedicated section appears on the dashboard showing:

Whether DemandGuard is currently monitoring (inside a demand window) or idle (outside peak hours)
Your target demand threshold
Your current grid draw vs. the threshold
Recent DemandGuard actions

The dashboard is a long scrollable page. The floating nav bar (below the main header) lets you jump directly to any section:

Power Flow
Automations
Energy Charts
Battery
DemandGuard
Next Demand Period

Data refresh rate

Live data updates every 60 seconds. This is Tesla’s data refresh rate — Grid Getter polls as frequently as Tesla allows.

What’s next?

Now that you know your way around the dashboard, it’s time to create your first automation: