A home that follows the sun instead of the clock
In a solar-driven Leafy Energy household, the combined effect of PV production, dynamic prices, and flexible loads determines how the home behaves. Home Assistant acts as the central conductor.
Architecture overview
- Leafy Energy integration – provides price and consumption data.
- Solar inverter integration – real-time production and daily curves.
- Home Assistant – automation rules, scenes, and UI.
- Target devices – heat pump, boiler, EV, white goods, and battery.
Core logic in this blueprint
- During the day, appliances and boiler runs are preferentially scheduled in sunny hours.
- When the price drops below a configured threshold, the battery is allowed to charge more aggressively.
- When prices are high but the sun is shining, consumption is prioritised over export.
- After sunset, the logic switches to a purely price-driven profile.
Home Assistant recommendations
- Use templates to create composite variables (for example “effective_price” = market price - solar benefit).
- Build blueprints that can easily be copied across Leafy demo environments.
- Offer a single “Leafy Solar” dashboard with cards for sun, price, battery and consumption.
This blueprint is excellent for trainings that should show Leafy Energy as more than a price feed: it becomes an orchestrator of sun, price and load.
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