Dashboard overview

What the dashboard is for

The dashboard is your at-a-glance home for a site's live energy data. It is a grid of widgets — small tiles that each show one thing: solar production, grid import and export, battery state, loads, recent events, energy charts, and more. You decide which widgets appear, how big they are, and where they sit, so the page shows exactly what matters to you.

You can keep more than one layout. Each layout is called a View, and you switch between Views from a dropdown at the top of the page — for example a "Live" View for instantaneous power and a "History" View for charts.

Where to find it

Open Dashboard from the main navigation menu. The page loads your saved layout and starts showing live values straight away.

The page at a glance

When the dashboard opens you see three things:

• The tiles — your widgets, laid out in a grid. Each tile updates on its own with live or recent data.
• The View dropdown (top of the page) — switches between your saved Views. If you only have one View, this just shows its name.
• The edit pencil — a small pencil icon on the Dashboard menu item. Click it to switch the page into edit mode, where you can add, move, resize, and remove tiles.

Outside edit mode the dashboard is read-only: you can read values, open charts, and change a chart's date range, but tiles stay locked in place so you can't move them by accident.

Switching and managing Views

A View is one saved arrangement of widgets. Use the View dropdown at the top to jump between them.

To create, rename, or delete Views, enter edit mode (see below) and open the View Settings panel with the cog/gear icon:

• View Title — rename the View you are currently looking at.
• Create New View — type a name, then Add Before or Add After to place the new View on either side of the current one in the dropdown. New Views start empty so you can build them up.
• Auto Update — see Keeping data fresh below.
• Delete a View — removes a View. You cannot delete your last remaining View.

Edit mode: adding, moving, and resizing widgets

Click the pencil icon on the Dashboard menu item to enter edit mode. The pencil changes to a close (✕) icon, the tiles unlock, and an Add New Widget bar appears across the top.

In edit mode you can:

• Add a widget — click Add New Widget. A picker opens with every available widget. Use the Search widgets... box to filter by name, read each one's short description, and click Add Widget to drop it onto the grid.
• Move a widget — drag a tile to a new spot. Other tiles shuffle out of the way.
• Resize a widget — drag a tile's corner to make it bigger or smaller.
• Remove a widget — use the tile's own controls to take it off the grid.

When you are finished, click the close (✕) icon to leave edit mode. The tiles lock again, the layout tidies up so there are no gaps, and your changes save automatically.

What the widgets show

Widgets fall into a few families:

• Live status icons — compact tiles showing an instantaneous value over a picture: PV (solar) power, grid import/export, load, battery, and generator. The Power Flow widget shows how energy is moving between these at this moment.
• Charts — time-based graphs: hourly and interval energy, control power, load analysis, grid-flow and battery-flow breakdowns, device records over time, a heatmap, and MPPT (solar tracker) history. Charts have a date picker so you can look back over a chosen day or range, and most let you change the Data Interval to group readings into coarser or finer time buckets.
• Information panels — text summaries rather than graphs: an energy report, an eco-impact summary, system variables, recent plant-control notifications, and an event timeline.
• Controls — interactive tiles that send a command to a device, such as toggling a digital output.

Adjusting a single widget

Every widget has its own gear (settings) icon. Open it to:

• Rename the widget's header.
• For charts, choose which data series are shown, set the date range, and pick the data interval.

Changes you make in a widget's settings save automatically, the same way layout changes do.

Keeping data fresh

• Live widgets (the status icons and live charts) stream new values continuously on their own.
• Auto Update — a toggle in the View Settings panel. When it is on, the dashboard refreshes its telemetry roughly every 10 minutes so charts and panels pick up the latest data without you reloading the page. Turn it off if you'd rather refresh manually.

Who can do what

• Any signed-in user can open the dashboard, read values, switch Views, change chart date ranges, and customise their own layout (add, move, resize, and remove widgets; create and delete Views).
• Control widgets (those that send a command to a device, such as digital-output toggles) act on live equipment. Sending those commands may require an elevated permission level (advanced or oem); if you don't have it, the widget still shows its state but the controls are unavailable.

Tips and gotchas

• Leaving edit mode saves for you. There's no separate save button — click the close (✕) icon and your layout and settings are written automatically. The status line reads All changes saved once it's done.
• Use separate Views instead of one crowded layout. A focused "Live" View and a separate "History" View are easier to read than one View packed with every widget.
• Empty patches are normal after tidying. When you leave edit mode the grid pulls tiles upward to close gaps, so a tile may shift from where you dropped it — that's the layout compacting, not a bug.
• A widget only shows data its site actually produces. If a site has no generator, the generator icon will simply have nothing to report.