Tesla Fleet Toggle/Schedule Max Backup Protection

[DeFlanko]

Integration name

Tesla Fleet

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tesla_fleet/

Describe the enhancement

In the Tesla App, under storm watch there is an option to toggle/schedule Max Backup Protection, which tells the battery to charge right now to 100%

Use cases

This would be beneficial in Home assistant for situations where environment issues that would not trigger Storm watch. For example a planned outage by the power company.

Anything else?

No response

[github-actions[bot]]

🏷️ I've automatically added the integration: tesla_fleet label to help categorize this feature request.

[craigrouse]

This isn't yet described in the (terrible) Tesla documentation, and I don't believe it's available through the Fleet API yet. I assume you're asking because Tesla has broken your Powerwall too, and the only workaround to force it to charge is to use max backup mode?

[DeFlanko]

100%:

This way i can do my own automation in HA based on time of day to proper night time charge. ;)

[DeFlanko]

What shows up in here:
https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/energy#storm-mode

[craigrouse]

Storm watch can be turned on and off, but it will only actually trigger a backup event if a storm is forecast. There's no way currently to force max backup mode to engage directly through the Fleet API, sadly.

[DeFlanko]

At minimum I posted a support ticket for an enhancement request over at Telsa:
https://fleetapi-support.tesla.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/SUPPORT-1418

[DeFlanko]

I still think this should be native in the API, however I came up with a work around for now.

Adjust the values as needed for your system.

Make Automations (with TOC in mind) first then the Script (on demand).

First the Automations:

alias: Auto charge batteries to 100%
description: ""
triggers:
 - trigger: numeric_state
   entity_id:
     - sensor.my_home_percentage_charged
   below: 21
   enabled: true
 - trigger: time_pattern
   minutes: /5
conditions:
 - condition: or
   conditions:
     - condition: time
       after: "20:05:00"
       before: "09:55:00"
       weekday:
         - mon
         - tue
         - wed
         - thu
         - fri
     - condition: time
       after: "00:00:00"
       before: "23:59:00"
       weekday:
         - sat
         - sun
actions:
 - action: number.set_value
   metadata: {}
   target:
     entity_id: number.my_home_backup_reserve
   data:
     value: "100"
mode: single

alias: Auto set Batteries back to 20% once Full
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.my_home_percentage_charged
    above: 99
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: number.set_value
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: number.my_home_backup_reserve
    data:
      value: "20"
mode: single

On-Demand Script:

sequence:
  - action: number.set_value
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: number.my_home_backup_reserve
    data:
      value: "100"
alias: New script
description: ""
icon: mdi:battery-charging-100

If the On Demand script is used then the Automation will take care of resetting your batteries level back to normal.

For the Dashboard:

type: custom:mini-graph-card
labels: true
name_adaptive_color: true
hours_to_show: 24
points_per_hour: 6
line_width: 3
hour24: true
animate: true
lower_bound: 0
height: 45
color_thresholds:
  - value: 0
    color: "#800fff"
  - value: 20
    color: "#ff0000"
  - value: 40
    color: "#ffa500"
  - value: 60
    color: "#ffff00"
  - value: 80
    color: "#52c900"
show:
  name_adaptive_color: true
  icon_adaptive_color: true
  labels: true
  secondary_info: true
entities:
  - entity: sensor.my_home_percentage_charged
    name: Tesla Battery
  - entity: number.my_home_backup_reserve
    name: Reserve set to
    color: Orange
    show_line: false
    show_points: false
    show_legend: false
    show_state: true
    y_axis: secondary

Button:

type: button
entity: script.set_batteries_100
show_name: true
show_icon: true
show_state: false
color: accent
grid_options:
  columns: 12
  rows: 2