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Smart Battery Pilot documentation

Smart Battery Pilot is a Home Assistant integration that plans your home battery a day ahead. It charges when electricity is cheap and uses the stored energy when it is expensive, based on dynamic prices, your household consumption and the PV forecast.

Page What it covers
Configuration Every setup step and option, going live, troubleshooting and the dashboard card.
How the optimizer works The planning algorithm, what export and curtailed PV are worth, and how the savings are estimated.
EV charging, evcc and other controllers Keeping a wallbox out of the consumption forecast, sharing the battery with evcc, planned EV sessions and the grid import limit.
Energy-system reference A worked example of the signals the pilot needs and where they come from, for a BYD battery behind a Fronius Gen24.
Examples Ready-to-use control scripts for specific battery and inverter combinations.

Installation through HACS and an overview of the entities are in the README; the project website shows how the plan looks through the seasons.