Hi, I'm going to tell you about 2 really useful features that I use in the
Tesla app for my Powerwall 2. So let's get started.
Hi John Tisbury here. If this is your first time here and you want to learn more
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notification icon to be notified of new content when I upload it. I'm going to
take you through the Powerwall app, the Tesla Powerwall app and show you 2 of the features
that I really find useful. They're not easy to spot so
you may know about them, or you may not. The first feature I'd like to talk to
you about is the ability to see the underlying data in the graphs. I'll bring
this up on screen so you can see it and I'm just going to go into Power Flow
menu from the Home screen. And then click on me the bar chart option up in the top
right hand corner. And it takes you into the Energy Usage screen and then from
there you've got your icons running across the top for your inputs. So Home
usage, Solar, Tesla Powerwall from the grid. and I've clicked on all four of
those to make them active. If I scroll down I can then see the the usage from
today and I've got the option or a drop down menu there to look at the different
historic looks from yesterday to the week, the month, the year. Depending on how
long you've had the set up. And what I like about it is if I forget to record
some of my details, because I capture everything in a spreadsheet. So each day,
end of each solar day, I record the previous day's activity across all of
the inputs. But if I forget, I can still see that
data via the app. So what I do if I go into the week view and go back to
the chart which gives you a bar chart of all of the icons they've chosen at the
top all of the input so I've got all four shown here and then for instance on
the Monday if I want to see what the data is the underlying data if I click
and hold on that bit of detail for that day it then shows me House usage on
Monday 25th was 24.6 kWh. Solar was 20.4 kWh, Into the Powerwall, out
of the Powerwall, to the grid, from the grid. And then you can do that
for each particular day that you're interested in and if you go for the
month then you can again look for the month it show you the weeks worth of
data for that particular month so I find that quite useful if I've forgotten to
write down my data for a particular day I can go back into the app and as long
as I'm within that week it will then be able to show me day-by-day exactly what
it did. So yeah let me know down in the comments if you find that useful if you
use that particular aspect of the app or whatever that's new to you I sort of
stumbled across it when I was playing about with the app look that's quite
useful. The second feature I wanted to talk to you about is the ability to
scroll through the graphs so it's sort of similar to what we've just looked at
so if I go back into Power Flow from the main screen and then click on the chart
options from there and once I've got my grid up on screen I will then actually
click on the grid and that brings you a vertical line and then you can scroll
left and right along the time line that you've got there and it will then show
you at a particularly given time where you pause so in this moment I'm on
Saturday, March 2nd at 10:15
and it shows you the activity for all of your inputs. So our house 3.8kWh,
solar 1kWh, nothing to the Powerwall, and pulling 2.8kWh from the grid.
and if you go and look at the peaks. The kids playing in the garden next door so
hopefully you can hear me. There we go...here at 12:05
on the same day Saturday 2nd of March the house was using 3kWh.
The solar was producing 3.5kWh which meant that 0.6kWh was going
to the Powerwall and we were sending 0.1kWh to the grid by the look of it.
Sometime I find that when we get a swap in power between one and the other. So we go from
the grid to the solar, or from solar to the Powerwall. The grid pops up for
a fraction of a second while the Gateway sort of resets itself. So I don't tend to
worry about that because it is just where it's switching between one or the
other. So they're the 2 things that I wanted to show you in the app hope you
found those useful. If you have then do give me a thumbs up, or thumbs down. If it
wasn't particularly useful do drop a comment down below so I'd like to know
what you're thinking and what you're using and how helpful these are and your
thoughts plus if there's any bits in the app that I haven't news or come across
it also would be good to know as well if you haven't subscribed then please
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bottom there and I'll see you on the next one. Alright take care. Bye.