Display Mode

Display Mode turns Grid Getter into a fullscreen, always-on dashboard designed for wall displays, kiosks, and tablets. It shows your live power flow and — when DemandGuard is active — real-time demand metrics, so you can see what your system is doing without touching a keyboard.

Opening Display Mode

There are two ways to launch it:

Expand icon — click the expand icon on the power-flow card. It’s visible to all signed-in users; clicking it opens Display Mode for eligible subscribers, or shows a short prompt explaining it’s a paid-plan feature (with a link to view plans) if your current plan does not include it.
Direct URL — visit app.gridgetter.com/live/display.

The page enters browser fullscreen automatically when it loads. To exit, press Esc or click the Exit · Esc button in the top-right corner of the display.

What you’ll see

Power Flow

The center of the display is a live power-flow animation showing electricity moving between your solar panels, battery, home, and the grid — the same visualization as the Live Dashboard, scaled to fill the screen.

DemandGuard panel

When a DemandGuard automation is active, a panel appears alongside the power flow showing:

Current demand — your real-time grid draw in kW
Target threshold — the demand limit your automation is protecting
Headroom — how much room you have before hitting the threshold
Interval progress — where you are in the current demand billing interval
Gauge displays — visual indicators for current demand, battery reserve, and headroom
Last automation action — the latest DemandGuard action logged during the current active run

If DemandGuard is not active (no automation configured, or outside its peak window), the panel shows your next scheduled automation instead — its name, when it runs (Today, Tomorrow, or in a few days), and the scheduled time.

Pre-Peak Charge panel

If you use Pre-Peak Charge, a smaller panel sits under the next scheduled automation in the run-up to peak. It shows what Pre-Peak Charge is doing (Charging from grid, Top-up planned, Waiting on solar, Ready for peak, or Canceled today), a bar of how full the battery will be, and one large figure. While it’s charging, that figure is your target, with the peak start time beneath it; otherwise it’s the battery level expected when peak starts.

The panel stays hidden when there’s nothing to watch:

DemandGuard is live. Its panel takes the space.
The battery is already set for peak and no top-up ran today.
The peak window is open or has ended. The Live Dashboard card keeps that day’s last reading, but Display Mode only shows what’s next.
Pre-Peak Charge hasn’t checked the next peak yet.

Status bar

Across the top of the display:

Status badge — shows your Powerwall’s current operating mode (Self-Powered or Autonomous). While a DemandGuard automation is actively managing your Powerwall, the badge reads DemandGuard instead, since DemandGuard — not your own mode setting — is in control
Current temperature — pulled from your site’s weather data, shown in the units you’ve chosen in Settings → Profile
Live clock — the current time, updated every second
Current date

Themes

Display Mode follows your app’s light/dark setting:

Light app theme → Light display — a clean, bright layout suited for well-lit rooms
Dark app theme → Kiosk display — a pure-black background that minimizes screen glare in dim environments

You can override the theme with a URL parameter regardless of your app setting:

Parameter	Result
`?theme=light`	Light display
`?theme=kiosk`	Kiosk (black) display

Example: https://app.gridgetter.com/live/display?theme=kiosk

Layout reflow

Display Mode is built around a 1600 × 900 canvas that scales uniformly to fill your screen. On very wide or very tall screens (aspect ratio outside the expected range), the DemandGuard panel automatically repositions to keep everything readable.

Exiting Display Mode

Press Esc on the keyboard
Click the Exit · Esc button in the top-right corner

Either action exits fullscreen and navigates to the Live Dashboard (/live).