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Energy Control Pro is a Home Assistant integration that centralizes solar energy detection, alerts, and load optimization in one place. Stop writing and maintaining fragile YAML automations for solar energy management.

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What problems does it solve?

If you use solar panels with Home Assistant, you probably run into at least one of these:
  • Exporting energy to the grid without noticing
  • Importing from the grid while solar is still available
  • Maintaining fragile automations that are hard to tune
Energy Control Pro solves these problems by providing intelligent detection, automatic alerts, and priority-based load control with anti-flapping protections.

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How it works

The integration calculates your solar, load, and grid balance every 10 seconds and makes intelligent decisions based on sustained conditions.
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Monitor energy flow

Energy Control Pro continuously monitors your solar production and home load to calculate surplus and grid balance.
2

Detect sustained conditions

When grid export or import stays above your configured threshold for a minimum duration (default 10 minutes), the integration detects it.
3

Send alerts

You receive persistent Home Assistant notifications when sustained export or import conditions are detected.
4

Control loads automatically

The optimization engine can automatically turn on loads when there’s sustained surplus, or turn them off when importing from the grid.

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Example scenario

Here’s how Energy Control Pro works in practice:
Conditions:
  • Solar production: 1500W
  • Home load: 400W
  • Surplus: 1100W
After 10 minutes above threshold, Energy Control Pro:
  • Turns ON switch.boiler
  • Registers last action: “Turned ON switch.boiler (surplus 1100W for 10 min)”
Conditions:
  • Solar production: 200W
  • Home load: 1100W
  • Grid import: 900W
After 10 minutes above threshold, Energy Control Pro:
  • Turns OFF switch.boiler
  • Registers last action: “Turned OFF switch.boiler (import 900W for 10 min)“

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Key features

Real-time monitoring

Energy balance calculated every 10 seconds with dedicated sensors for solar, load, surplus, grid import, and grid export.

Simulation mode

Three built-in profiles (sunny day, cloudy day, winter day) for testing dashboards and automations without real hardware.

Persistent alerts

Automatic notifications when grid export or import conditions persist beyond your configured thresholds.

Smart load control

Control up to 3 loads with priority logic, anti-flapping protection, minimum on-time, and cooldown periods.

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Sensors created

When you set up Energy Control Pro, you get these sensors:
  • sensor.solar_w - Current solar power production
  • sensor.load_w - Current home load consumption
  • sensor.surplus_w - Current surplus (solar minus load)
  • sensor.grid_import_w - Power being imported from grid
  • sensor.grid_export_w - Power being exported to grid
  • sensor.energy_state - Current state: importing, exporting, or balanced
  • sensor.import_duration_min - How long you’ve been importing
  • sensor.export_duration_min - How long you’ve been exporting
  • sensor.energy_control_pro_last_action - Last optimization action taken
All sensors update every 10 seconds to give you real-time visibility into your energy flow.

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Optimization strategies

Choose from three built-in strategies to match your goals:
  • Maximize self-consumption (default) - Turn on loads as soon as sustained surplus is available
  • Avoid grid import - Focus on turning off loads when importing from grid
  • Balanced - Balanced approach between the two strategies
You can change strategies at runtime using the select.energy_control_pro_strategy entity without restarting Home Assistant.

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Anti-flapping protection

Energy Control Pro includes several protections to prevent devices from cycling on and off too frequently:
  • Duration thresholds - Conditions must persist for a minimum time before taking action
  • Minimum on-time - Loads must stay on for a minimum duration before being turned off
  • Cooldown periods - Loads must wait a minimum time after turning off before being turned on again
  • Priority logic - Highest priority loads turn on first, lowest priority loads turn off first
These protections are configurable per load, giving you fine-grained control over each device’s behavior.

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What’s next?

Ready to get started? Continue to the installation guide to add Energy Control Pro to your Home Assistant instance.

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