Overview

What metrd is and what it shows you.

metrd is in alpha. Things are still actively changing - expect rough edges, missing features, and occasional breaking changes between versions.

metrd is a live dashboard for your home energy system. It connects to your solar inverter and other energy hardware, and shows you where your power is coming from and where it's going - right now, and over time.

What you see

The centrepiece of metrd is a display: a live diagram showing energy flowing between your solar panels, battery, the grid, and your house. As generation and consumption change through the day, the diagram updates in real time - so you can see solar powering the house directly, surplus charging the battery, or the battery covering an evening peak instead of drawing from the grid.

Each part of the diagram also shows a number - how many watts are moving right now - so you're not just watching lines move, you can see the actual scale of what's happening.

What metrd connects to

metrd reads data from your hardware; it doesn't control it. Today it supports:

• SolaX inverters, over your local network via SolaX Local or via SolaX Cloud, for live generation, battery, and grid figures
• Solcast, using your location and panel setup to predict tomorrow's generation

See Integrations for the full list and what each one provides.

What metrd is not

metrd does not send commands to your inverter or battery. It won't change charge schedules, tariff slots, or any hardware settings. It's a window into your system, not a remote control.

Built for light hardware

metrd is designed to run comfortably on modest, low-power hardware, not a beefy server. That shapes decisions throughout the product: every request and every database round trip is treated as something to avoid rather than something to spend freely. See Tech Stack for how that plays out.