Live Dashboard

The Live Dashboard is Grid Getter’s main screen — a real-time view of your entire Tesla energy system. It shows where your power is coming from, where it’s going, how your battery is doing, and what your automations are up to.

To get there: click Dashboard in the top navigation, or visit app.gridgetter.com/live.

Data updates every 60 seconds.

Header weather

The dashboard header shows a compact current-conditions chip next to the page title, once your site has weather data:

Temperature, next to an animated weather icon that matches current conditions (sun rays rotate, rain falls) — a static icon shows if you have reduced motion enabled
A short condition label, like “Clear sky” or “Partly Cloudy”
Wind speed and direction (“12 mph SW”)
Humidity

Temperatures and wind speed follow the units you’ve chosen in Settings → Profile.

Log event

The header has a Log event button on every plan. It sits under the refresh indicator on a wide screen and beside it on a phone or tablet. Use it when your Powerwall did something you didn’t ask for: it exported to the grid for your utility’s VPP program, or it ran a recalibration and the charge level jumped.

Clicking it opens the Log Event sheet with the last hour filled in. Pick VPP event or Recalibration, adjust the times, add a note if you like, and save. The period then shows as a band on the Power Flow Graph.

Tesla doesn’t announce either one, and we don’t yet know what a recalibration or a VPP export looks like in Powerwall data, so every event you log gives us a labeled example to work from. See Events for the full sheet and the Events list.

Power Flow

The first thing you see is the power flow diagram — a live visualization of electricity moving between your solar panels, battery, home, and the grid.

What each element shows:

Solar: Current solar production in kW. Weather is available on Scheduled plans or higher — when it’s available the icon reflects current conditions (clear, cloudy, rain, and so on) and switches to a moon at night. Without weather data it shows a simple sun.
Battery (battery icon): Current state of charge — shown as a percentage inside the battery icon itself — plus charge rate and whether it’s charging or discharging
Grid (power lines icon): Current grid import (drawing from grid) or export (sending to grid)
Home (house icon): Your home’s total power consumption in kW

The animated lines between elements show the direction power is flowing. Power flows from where it’s produced (solar, battery, grid) toward where it’s consumed (home, grid export).

Mode toggle: next to the Grid node, a Self Powered / Autonomous toggle lets you switch your Powerwall’s operating mode directly from the dashboard. While a DemandGuard automation is actively managing your Powerwall, the toggle is replaced with a single DemandGuard pill showing that DemandGuard — not your own mode setting — is in control right now (see Backup Mode for what’s happening behind the scenes). Tapping the pill opens a confirmation (“DemandGuard Is Active”) where you can still switch to Self-Powered or Autonomous yourself. For each mode you choose whether to Switch (change the mode but leave DemandGuard running — it resumes control within about a minute) or Switch & Stop (turn DemandGuard off for the current window so the change sticks). If you also have a Battery Protection rule set to run outside your automations, a second prompt appears after the stop: that rule treats the stopped window as free time and will start grid charging as soon as the battery drops below its trigger, which counts toward your demand charge during peak hours. You can Pause Battery Protection right there (it stays off until you turn it back on from Automations) or keep it running.

Insights

Under Power Flow, the Insights section shows what Grid Getter noticed about your site overnight. If you run DemandGuard, the first card is How DemandGuard fits this site, pinned with a “Pinned” label, and the next most important insight takes the second spot. Everyone else sees the top two. See all insights opens the Insights page. With nothing new, the section shrinks to one row with an Ask a what-if link. Sites that don’t have insights yet don’t see the section at all. A site without DemandGuard sees it only when there is a DemandGuard card to show.

Pre-Peak Charge card

Between Power Flow and the Automation Timeline, a Pre-Peak Charge card explains what is about to happen to your battery before your next peak. Which version you see depends on your plan and setup:

Live forecast — Pre-Peak Charge is on. The card shows the battery level expected at peak start, whether a grid top-up is planned or running, and a Cancel charge button for a running top-up.
Waiting for first check — Pre-Peak Charge is on but hasn’t produced a reading yet. The card names your next peak and fills in once the first check runs.
Set-up prompt — your plan includes Pre-Peak Charge but you haven’t turned it on. Set up Pre-Peak Charge takes you to Background Rules.
Upgrade card — Pre-Peak Charge is available on Adaptive plans. Dismiss it with Not now or the × and it stays hidden in that browser.

See Pre-Peak Charge for every state the live card can show.

Automation Timeline

The automation timeline shows which automations are scheduled for today and when they’re set to run. This gives you a quick at-a-glance view of what Grid Getter will do throughout the day.

If you haven’t created any automations yet, this section shows a prompt to create your first one.

Energy Charts

Scroll down to see historical charts of your energy data — solar production, grid import/export, battery charge/discharge, and home consumption over time.

Switch between time ranges using the tabs above the chart:

5-minute intervals (last 7 days)
Hourly (last 30 days)
Daily (last 90 days)
Monthly (last 12 months)

Ranges reaching back before you connected your Powerwall are filled in from Tesla’s own records, with a line under the chart saying how much. See Energy Charts for more detail.

Logging an event from the chart

If a stretch of the Power Flow Graph looks wrong because of a VPP event or a recalibration, you can mark that period right on the chart:

Click and drag across the period on the Power Flow Graph. The chart zooms to the span you selected.
Click Log event for this range. It appears next to Reset Zoom while the chart is zoomed.
The Log Event sheet opens with the start and end taken from your selection. If the range crosses midnight, the end date is already set.
Pick VPP event or Recalibration, add a note if you like, and click Save.

The period now shows as a band behind the chart lines: purple with solid edges for a VPP event, blue with dashed edges for a recalibration. Click a band’s label to edit or delete the event. You can still drag across a band to zoom, and the button goes away when you reset the zoom or switch time ranges. See Energy Charts for how bands are drawn.

Battery

The battery section shows detailed information about your Powerwall:

State of charge: Current battery percentage
Reserve setting: The minimum percentage your battery is set to keep
Charge/discharge rate: How fast the battery is currently charging or discharging (kW)
Reserve controls: If you’re on Scheduled or Adaptive, you can adjust the battery reserve directly from this panel without going to Settings
Reserve ring: The battery ring animates between reserve changes and reflects recent manual or DemandGuard reserve updates while Tesla confirms the new site setting

Weather Forecast

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

What you’ll see:

Location badge: Shows the city and state (e.g. “Phoenix, AZ”) for your weather data, derived from the NWS API. Falls back to coordinates if location details aren’t available.
Current conditions: Temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, and recent precipitation
Temperature trend chart: A compact visual chart showing the temperature curve and precipitation probability for the next 12 hours — a quick “shape of the day” glance
Hourly forecast: A scrollable timeline of the next 12 hours with temperature, weather icon, and precipitation probability
Solar impact callout: A contextual message based on current cloud cover and precipitation that tells you how weather is likely to affect your solar production (e.g. “Clear skies — ideal for solar production” or “Heavy cloud cover may significantly reduce solar production”)

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

Temperatures display in Fahrenheit by default. Switch to Celsius from Settings → Profile — this also updates the header weather chip and Display Mode.

Setting your location: If you’re a paid subscriber and haven’t set a location yet, a banner appears in the weather section with a quick “Use My Location” button that grabs your browser’s position, or a link to set it manually in Settings.

DemandGuard Status

If you have an active DemandGuard automation, this section appears on the dashboard and shows:

Whether DemandGuard is currently monitoring (active demand period) or waiting (outside peak window)
Your configured target demand threshold
Your current grid draw
Whether DemandGuard has taken action recently
The latest DemandGuard automation action message, including when it was logged

During an active demand period, the panel updates in real time to show how close you are to your threshold.

Next Demand Period

This section shows a countdown to your next configured demand period — when DemandGuard will start monitoring. It helps you see at a glance how much time you have before a peak window begins.

Storm Watch Status

The Storm Watch section shows whether Tesla’s Storm Watch feature is currently active. When Storm Watch is on, your battery charges to 100% and holds a high reserve to prepare for severe weather.

The Live Dashboard is a long scrollable page with multiple sections. The sticky navigation bar at the top of the page lets you jump directly to any section:

Power Flow
Insights (when your site has them)
Pre-Peak Charge (when the card is showing)
Automations
Energy Charts
Battery
Weather
Stormwatch
DemandGuard (if active)
Next Demand

Data refresh rate

Dashboard data refreshes automatically every 60 seconds. This reflects the rate at which Tesla’s API provides live data — it’s not a Grid Getter limitation.

If you need more frequent updates during a demand period, DemandGuard can check more often using the Queries Per Minute setting in your DemandGuard automation.

If your Tesla is disconnected, a banner appears at the top of the dashboard with a Reconnect button. Most dashboard data will show dashes (—) until the connection is restored. See Integrations for reconnection instructions.

Demand charge question

If Grid Getter doesn’t know whether your electricity plan has a demand charge, a banner may appear under the top navigation asking Does your electricity plan include a demand charge? with the line Tell us once and your savings report can show it in dollars. Answer opens the demand charge section of your energy plan settings.

Dismiss it with the × and it stays hidden for 30 days, for that site, in that browser. It doesn’t appear for Australian sites, on the Activity Log, or during onboarding.

If you clicked Skip this question on the routing step when you connected Tesla, onboarding didn’t show you a report. (Picking I’m not sure yet does show you one, measured on whichever pattern your data supports, so this banner isn’t for that.) Once Grid Getter has measured enough of your battery history, a banner appears near the top of the Live Dashboard pointing at whatever stands out most in your own data:

An expensive habit: you’re regularly buying power in the hours your utility charges the most for
A sharp peak: one half-hour of grid draw stood well above the rest of your afternoon
A costly solar round trip: you’re exporting solar and buying a good chunk of it back after dark

Whichever one it names is picked from your own last 30 days, on the same measurements behind your report. See how we calculate your numbers.

The banner checks those in that order and takes the first one your data clears, because the earlier ones are the easiest to check against your own bill. Two things override the order. The volume cutoffs behind the first two are set for a month of data and scale down with however many days we actually have, so a fortnight of history is judged on a fortnight’s worth; below a week of history the banner makes no volume claim at all, since three days of heavy export is a Tuesday, not a habit. And if your demand peak is worth real money — at least $8 a month on your rates, and at least twice what the habit or round trip would be worth — the banner names the peak instead, so a large demand charge is never hidden behind a small solar finding.

If nothing in your data stands out, the banner says so instead of manufacturing a finding, and its button opens Settings → Notifications so you can set up an alert for later rather than a report with nothing in it.

Tapping the banner’s button takes you to your report, priced in dollars if your energy plan has the rates for it and in kilowatts or kilowatt-hours otherwise.

Dismiss the banner and it stays gone until your next bill, on the first of the following month. Clearing your browser’s site data brings it back immediately.

Target missed at full power

If your battery ran at its power ceiling during the half-hour that set your demand peak, and still had charge left when the window ended, a Target missed — battery at full power card appears on the dashboard. It names the window and shows house load, battery output and grid draw at the peak sample, the energy left in the pack, and your battery’s ceiling. The miss came from the battery’s power limit, so the card explains it and leaves your settings alone. Dismiss it with the × and it stays away for 30 days. The rules behind it are on the DemandGuard page.

When your Powerwall stops reporting

If your Powerwall stops sending live data to Tesla, a card appears at the top of the dashboard. This is different from a disconnected Tesla account — your Grid Getter connection is fine; the gateway itself has gone quiet, almost always because it lost its internet connection.

While the Powerwall is offline, Grid Getter pauses your automations so it isn’t acting on missing data. The card shows:

Offline since — when the data first stopped
Last checked — the most recent time Grid Getter tried to reconnect
Next check — roughly when it’ll try again

Two buttons let you take over:

Verify now — checks Tesla right away instead of waiting for the next scheduled re-check. Use this once your gateway is back on the internet to reconnect immediately.
How to fix — opens the reconnection guidance.

You don’t have to wait at the screen. Grid Getter re-checks on its own — every 15 minutes for the first 24 hours it’s offline, then less often the longer it stays offline — and the card disappears on its own once data returns. Your automations resume automatically, and you get a notification confirming it’s back up. See Notifications for the full reconnection details.