More granular unit configuration/threshold-based unit switching

[Aaroneisele55]

I love using this card as it just shows me all the energy and power data in one overview without having ugly rows of entities in a dashboard.

But what bothers me is that I can only globally set the power/energy unit to kWh or Wh respectively kW or W. I have a heat pump that usually has a power in the kW range, the solar panels usually also produce more than 1000W but my dryer and washing machine often switch between something like 2kW (heating up) and 80W (motor/maintaining temperature).

With the current state of the card, those 80W are shown as 0kW with no way to change this except for setting all power values to W, which I don't want.

I would like to either:

1. Be able to set a power/energy threshold above which kW(h) is used, below that it's W(h)
2. Specify the unit per entity

Where 1 would be my preferred feature to be added.

Thanks in advance
Aaron

[ReikanYsora]

Hi @Aaroneisele55,

Sorry for the late reply, but I wanted to check the feasibility before answering you, and I am happy to tell you that I have decided to add a new mode to the options: the "adaptive" mode, which picks the best unit for each consumer.

This will be in version 2026.9.5, which is nearly finished and should be released today.

Thanks for your feedback, it makes Helios a better card than it was before your message.

Cheers ;)

ReikanYsora / Jérôme