Card size, multiple inverters/batteries, card styling

[gcoan]

Just came across the GivTCP power flow in HACS, and have tried it out, comparing it to the Power Flow Plus card I currently use.

Bit of background, I have two GivEnergy inverters and an older FIT array AC inverter (monitored via a Shelly EM CT clamp). I’d love to be able to see all these on a single power flow, but so far haven’t found a way to achieve it.

I love the ease of simplicity of configuring the GivTCP power flow card, that it recognises my inverters and batteries straight away, but I do have a number of bits of feedback on testing it out. Happy to break these into individual issues if its easier to manage/respond to them that way:

1. Size of the card. I installed it onto a test dashboard, configured with grid (layout card) alignment and the card is enormous. Had to turn the screen vertically just to get a screen shot, but it extends to the full width and is very tall:
   

Its a bit better if I put the card alongside something else in a horizontal stack, but its still very big:

2. I know it’s mentioned in the readme that multiple inverters/battery support is limited, but it appears to only be showing a single inverter data. I’m charging both batteries at full rate currently but only shows the battery charge rate for the first inverter. Clicking on. it shows just the first inverter. Import rate just wrong?

3. It’s good that there is a number of styling options but I much prefer the styling of the Power Flow Plus card. May be I can tweak the givtcp one to match, but the PF+ looks “cleaner”

4. I really want to be able to see both my givenergy inverters and batteries separately on the same power flow. At the moment I Have to use two PF+ cards. I’ve been trying to get everything on a single card with PF+, and it sort of works, but it doesn’t work properly when the battery flow changes to discharge. Maybe the givtcp card will do this when it supports multiple inverters better?
   

5. And as another stretch, would like to be able to include my non-givenergy inverter AC generation as well. Currently I can’t track that on the PF card