Live Dashboard (Android)

The Live Dashboard is the first screen you see after signing in. Scroll down to see all sections. Pull down from the top to force a refresh.

Data updates automatically about every 5 seconds on Scheduled and Adaptive, and about every 20 seconds on Free.

Resting mode prompt

If your site has no resting mode set, a card near the top of the dashboard asks Which mode do you normally run? It’s pre-selected from your Powerwall’s current mode. Tap Save to store it, or Not now to hide the card for this site. The same card appears on the Automations and Background Rules screens, and you can change the setting later under Settings. See Resting mode.

Header weather

Once your site has weather data, a compact current-conditions chip appears in the dashboard header:

Temperature, next to an animated icon that matches current conditions — the sun turns, clouds drift, rain falls. A static icon shows instead if you’ve turned off system animations.
A short condition label, like “Clear” or “Partly Cloudy”
Wind speed and direction (“12 mph SW”)
Humidity

Temperature and wind speed follow the units you pick in Settings → Preferences.

Power Flow

The Power Flow card shows where electricity is moving right now: solar → battery, grid → home, battery → home, etc. Animated lines indicate the direction of flow.

What each node shows:

Solar — current solar production in kW. Weather is available on Scheduled plans or higher. When it’s available, the icon reflects current conditions and switches to a moon at night; otherwise it shows a sun.
Battery — state of charge, shown as a percentage inside the battery icon itself, and charge/discharge rate (kW)
Grid — grid import (drawing from grid) or export (sending excess to grid)
Home — total home consumption in kW

Energy Strategy

Below the flow diagram, the Energy Strategy toggle switches your Powerwall’s operating mode:

Self-Powered: use solar and battery before drawing from the grid
Autonomous: let Tesla charge and discharge based on your electricity rates

Tap a mode to switch. While DemandGuard is actively holding your home on grid power, the two buttons are replaced by a single DemandGuard pill, so you can see that DemandGuard, not your own mode setting, is in control right now. Tapping the pill opens DemandGuard Is Active, which lists both modes with two buttons each:

Switch changes the mode and keeps DemandGuard running. DemandGuard takes control back within about a minute.
Switch & Stop turns DemandGuard off for the current window, so the mode change sticks. A DemandGuard Stopped message confirms it.

Stopping DemandGuard only turns it off. Its reserve and solar surplus settings stay exactly as you set them.

If you also have a Battery Protection rule set to run outside your automations, a second dialog follows a successful stop: Battery Protection Will Take Over. With DemandGuard stopped, that rule starts charging from the grid as soon as the battery drops below its trigger, and during peak hours that grid draw counts toward your demand charge. The dialog shows your current battery level and says whether the charge would start within minutes. Choose:

Pause Battery Protection: turns the rule off until you switch it back on from Automations. A Battery Protection Paused message confirms it.
Keep it running: leaves the rule as it is.

Insights

When your account has Insights, an Insights section sits on the dashboard. It shows the top two of last night’s insights, with See all insights → to open the rest. When nothing new turned up it shrinks to a single row. See Insights (Android).

Pre-Peak Charge

When Pre-Peak Charge is set up, a card under Power Flow explains what it’s doing before today’s peak window. See Pre-Peak Charge for how the forecast works. A pill names the current status:

On track: solar gets the battery to your target on its own, or close enough that a grid charge isn’t worth it.
Top-up planned: solar won’t cover the gap, so a grid top-up starts later by itself. The card says roughly when.
Charging from grid: a top-up is running now.
Latest safe start: a top-up is running and the forecast leaves little slack before peak.
Topped up · stopped: a running charge reached target and stopped ahead of peak.
Ready for peak: the battery reaches target by peak start.
Canceled today: you canceled today’s charge. Pre-Peak Charge runs again tomorrow.

Under the pill, a bar shows your battery now, the forecast solar, any grid top-up, and how far short of the target line you’d land. Tiles show solar until peak, home use until peak, and the gap to cover. While Pre-Peak Charge is holding the battery ahead of a top-up, a line under the status reads Holding the battery at 62% until the grid top-up., or …until peak. once no top-up is planned. It goes away once peak starts. See Before the top-up.

The buttons:

Cancel charge stops a running top-up right away and restores your battery’s normal settings. It also skips the rest of the day. It’s only enabled while a charge is running.
Skip today appears while the status is On track or Top-up planned and nothing has run yet. It skips today’s top-up.
Undo skip brings back a skipped day, as long as no charge has run.
Forecast detail expands today’s numbers: predicted battery at peak, target reserve, the gap including the safety margin, whether the weather forecast is in use, today’s clearness, how many days of site history the model has, and the next check.

If Pre-Peak Charge isn’t set up yet, the slot shows a prompt instead:

On an Adaptive plan, Meet peak at 100%, even on cloudy days with Set up Pre-Peak Charge, which opens Background Rules with the editor ready.
On other plans, an upgrade card with Upgrade to Adaptive and Not now. Tap Not now or ✕ to hide it on this device.

A running charge always shows its card, so you can still cancel it if your plan changes mid-charge.

Today’s Automations

This card lists your automations and shows which ones are scheduled to run today, in your site’s time zone. Tap View All to go to the full Automations screen. Tap Create if you haven’t set one up yet.

If Pre-Peak Charge is set up, the timeline shows it as a hatched block leading into the peak window it serves, labeled if needed. It has no schedule of its own, and it only charges on days the forecast falls short. Tap it for the detail: “Pre-Peak Charge tops up before this window if solar falls short.”

Charts

Scroll past Today’s Automations to see two charts:

Battery Chart — battery state of charge over time. Switch time ranges with the chips above the chart.

Power Chart — solar production, grid import/export, battery usage, and home load over time. Same time range controls as the battery chart.

Both charts support zooming: pinch to zoom in, or tap a custom range control if available.

Battery

The Battery section (labeled “Battery”) shows:

State of charge — current battery percentage
Energy mode — current operating mode (Self-Powered, Time-Based, Backup-Only)
Battery reserve — the minimum charge % your battery holds in reserve

Adjusting the reserve

Tap the reserve slider in the Battery Reserve card to change your minimum reserve. Tap Save to apply. The change takes effect within about 30 seconds.

When an automation is holding your reserve

With Keep battery level after peak (Peak Time) or Keep battery level after the window (DemandGuard) turned on, the automation leaves your reserve held at the level the battery finished at. While that hold is in force, a blue box in the Reserve Settings card, above your current reserve, says so, for example: “Held at 63% by Evening peak since 8:01 PM.” It then tells you what happens next:

The automation sets a Demand Floor: “At the next peak start the rule sets it to 20%.” Peak Time adds “unless Weather Guard skips that”, since Weather Guard can keep the reserve high instead.
No Demand Floor: “At the next peak start it goes back to 30%”, the reserve you had before the hold. DemandGuard says “DemandGuard window start” instead of “peak start”.
The automation is turned off: “That rule is turned off, so it stays here until you change it.” Turning the rule off doesn’t release the hold.

Change reserve opens the reserve editor as a bottom sheet. Saving a new reserve ends the hold. Set a Demand Floor opens that automation’s form. It appears only when the automation is on and has no Demand Floor of its own.

See Keeping your charge after peak and Keeping your charge after the window.

Weather Forecast

The weather section shows current conditions and an hourly forecast for your site, pulled from the National Weather Service every 30 minutes.

Location badge — city and state (e.g. “Phoenix, AZ”) based on your site coordinates. Falls back to raw coordinates if a city name isn’t available.
Current conditions — temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, and recent precipitation
Temperature trend — a chart of the temperature curve and precipitation probability over the next 12 hours
Hourly forecast — scrollable timeline with temperature, weather icon, and precipitation chance for each hour
Solar impact — tells you how current cloud cover and precipitation are likely to affect solar production (e.g. “Clear skies — ideal for solar production”)

If data is older than 45 minutes, a “Stale” badge appears so you know the reading may be outdated.

Temperatures and wind speed display in Fahrenheit by default. Switch to Celsius (and km/h) from Settings → Preferences — the change applies here and to the header weather chip.

Paid subscribers who haven’t set a location yet will see a banner prompting them to add one in Settings.

Storm Watch

The Storm Watch card shows whether Tesla’s Storm Watch is currently active. When it’s on, your Powerwall charges to 100% and holds a high reserve to prepare for severe weather. Tesla decides when to activate Storm Watch based on conditions in your area — Grid Getter can toggle it on or off, but doesn’t control the charging behavior directly.

If you have a DemandGuard automation with Respect Storm Watch enabled, DemandGuard pauses until Storm Watch clears.

See Weather & Stormwatch for more detail.

DemandGuard

This section appears below the Battery section.

It shows:

Whether DemandGuard is currently monitoring (inside a peak demand window) or waiting (outside peak hours)
Your configured demand threshold (kW)
Your current grid draw
Whether DemandGuard has taken action recently

Tap Configure to go directly to DemandGuard settings.

When you have no active DemandGuard automation, a DemandGuard Off card takes its place and says why, with one next step:

Turned off when your plan ended. On Adaptive, it takes you to Automations to turn it back on. Otherwise it links to your plan options.
Turned off by you. Same links: Automations on Adaptive, plan options otherwise.
Not set up yet. On Adaptive, it opens DemandGuard setup. On other plans it shows that DemandGuard is available on Adaptive plans or higher, with a link to your plan options.

If your plan has ended and DemandGuard is finishing its last window, the DemandGuard card shows an Ends badge with the time it turns off, and during a demand period it says DemandGuard keeps managing your energy until then. See When your plan ends.

Next Demand Period

This card shows a countdown to your next DemandGuard monitoring window. Only visible when you have a DemandGuard automation configured.

If you skipped the question about what you’d like help with when you connected Tesla, onboarding didn’t show you a report. Once Grid Getter has measured enough of your battery history, a banner appears near the top of the dashboard naming whatever stands out most in your own data: an expensive habit, a sharp peak, or a costly solar round trip. Live Dashboard on the web explains how it picks.

Tap the banner’s button to open your report. If nothing in your data stands out, the banner says so, and its button opens your notification settings instead so you can set up an alert.

Tap ✕ to hide it. It stays hidden until the first of next month.

Tesla disconnected

If your Tesla connection has expired, a banner appears at the top of the dashboard. Tap Reconnect to start the Tesla authorization flow. See Tesla Connection.

Data Pause

The dashboard pauses live data polling when the app has been in the background for an extended period. When you return, a full-screen overlay appears:

Resume Data — restart polling immediately
Ignore for 12 hours — dismiss the overlay and resume without resetting the pause timer (Scheduled/Adaptive subscribers only)

Multiple sites

If your account has more than one Tesla site, a site selector appears at the top of the dashboard. Tap a site to switch. All data on the dashboard updates to reflect the selected site.