Configuration

The PELS settings UI is organized around five top-level destinations:

Destination	Use for
Overview	Current power, the limit PELS is working to, and what PELS is doing right now.
Budget	Daily budget plan, today/tomorrow planning, and budget adjustments.
Usage	Hourly and daily energy history.
Smart tasks	Current and past ready-by tasks.
Settings	Limits, devices, modes, prices, simulation, and advanced tools.

Most configuration starts in Settings. The Settings landing page links to Setup & recommendations, Limits & safety, Daily budget, Devices, Modes, Electricity prices, Price-aware devices, Weather insight, Multiple meters, Simulation mode, Open in a browser, Activity, Report a problem, and Advanced.

Overview

The Overview page shows the current plan: what PELS wants each managed device to do right now.

Field	What it shows
Power now	Current whole-home power draw.
Safe pace now	The current pace PELS reacts around. It comes from the selected-period hard cap or the daily budget, whichever is tighter. When the grid import limit is the tighter one, the Overview names it instead.
Hard cap	The average power you don't want the configured capacity period to exceed.
Device cards	Running, Idle, Off, Limited, Resuming, Manual, or Unavailable.
Status line	Short explanation of why PELS is waiting, limiting, or resuming.

Use Overview when you want to understand live behavior. Use Settings when you want to change setup.

For the planner-state mapping, see Plan States.

Budget

The Budget page is the daily planning surface. It shows whether the selected day is on plan (Plan view) and lets you preview and apply changes to the daily budget model (Adjust view).

See Daily Energy Budget for the full description of each view and setting (Enable daily budget, Daily budget, Use cheaper hours, Background usage reserve, Managed device flexibility). Read it before changing the advanced tuning values.

Usage

The Usage page helps you understand what PELS has observed.

• Today so far shows hourly kWh for the selected local day.
• Daily usage shows daily totals for the last 14 days.
• Typical day shows historical hourly patterns.
• Detailed hourly view shows lower-level hourly buckets.
• Solar (shown when PELS has a solar signal) shows today's Produced, Used at home, and Exported, with the grid cost you avoided and what you earned from export. See Solar and Self-Consumption.

The hourly bars split each hour into managed device usage and background usage, so you can see how much of your consumption PELS can influence.

Hourly data is kept for 30 days. Daily totals are kept for one year. Resetting usage history lives under Settings > Advanced > Data management.

Smart Tasks

Smart tasks show devices with an active target and ready-by time. Tasks are created with New smart task on the Smart tasks page, Add smart task on a device page, Homey Flow cards, or the Create smart task dashboard widget, then shown in the settings UI so you can inspect the current plan and history.

Card or view	What it does
Add charging task	Plans EV charging toward a target battery percentage by a ready-by time.
Add heating task	Plans heating toward a target temperature by a ready-by time.
Add energy task	Delivers a set amount of energy (kWh) to a device by a ready-by time.
Create smart task widget	Creates a task from a Homey dashboard, without a Flow.
Smart tasks list	Shows current tasks, targets, and ready-by times.
Task plan page	Shows selected hours, price context, expected work, background usage, and progress.
History	Shows previous task outcomes.

See Smart Tasks for behavior details and Book Cheap Hours With Flows if you prefer a fixed number of cheapest hours instead of a target-based task.

Settings > Limits & Safety

This is where the grid import limit, the capacity settings and the whole-home power source live.

Setting	What it does
Grid import limit	Turn on to keep whole-home net import from the grid under a level you choose, in kW. PELS starts reducing loads near 95% of it and brings them back in priority order when power is available again. It reads the latest meter reading, so a short overshoot is possible while the meter updates and devices respond. It is not a circuit breaker.
Capacity limit	Turn on when your grid tariff charges for your highest hourly or 15-minute average power. Turn it off if your grid charges do not depend on measured peaks, as in the Netherlands, where the capacity tariff is a fixed charge by connection size. A new install starts with it on in Norway and Belgium and off everywhere else.
Capacity period	Hourly average for hourly tariffs; 15-minute average for quarter-hour peak tariffs, such as Belgium's capacity tariff.
Hard cap (kW)	The average power you don't want the selected period to exceed. Set this from the peak or tariff step you want to protect. If you are not charged for measured peaks, turn off Capacity limit instead.
Safety margin (kW)	Buffer below the hard cap. PELS starts reacting before the hard cap is reached.
Power source	Where whole-home power readings come from: Flow card or Power meter (read through Homey Energy).
Whole-home meter	Shown with the Power meter source. Which meter whole-home power readings come from. PELS always reads one named meter: when the only whole-home meter Homey lists is marked Tracks total home energy consumption and no Flow has ever sent PELS readings, PELS picks it on its own shortly after starting; otherwise choose it here. A selection does not need Homey's Tracks total home energy consumption marking. The list shows whole-home meters rather than every power-using device, so an EV charger or smart plug won't appear; a meter you chose earlier stays selectable even if it no longer appears.

On the 15-minute period, Highest completed quarter this month reports PELS's largest fully tracked 15-minute average for the current month. It is an operational estimate from the readings sent to PELS, not a grid bill or a reproduction of operator rules such as a minimum monthly peak.

Important:

• The selected-period hard cap is the only limit with an urgent manual-action alert. The grid import limit shows its own status on the Overview and does not fire hard-cap Flows.
• The Hard cap breach imminent — manual action needed trigger fires only when PELS projects a hard-cap breach in the current capacity period and cannot limit any more load.

Settings > Devices

The Devices page shows temperature devices, on-off devices, and supported EV chargers. Open a device to configure its detail panel.

Top-level controls:

Control	What it means
Managed	PELS includes this device in modes and plans. Turning it on also turns on Limit, when the device has a power reading; turn Limit off again if PELS should plan around the device without lowering it.
Limit	PELS may lower, pause or turn off this device: to stay under your grid import limit or hard cap, to keep to your daily budget, or to follow your solar surplus.
Price	PELS adjusts the temperature target around electricity prices.

Device detail sections. The page composes per device kind — an EV charger, a thermostat, a stepped load (such as a water heater), and a plain on/off device each lead with the sections that matter for that device, and sections that do not apply are not shown. The top of every managed device's page is a live status header: state, current draw, one fact line (temperature and target, or charging state, battery, and level), the reason the device is limited when it is, and a Smart task link when one is scheduled. A device PELS does not manage has no live status to report, so its page shows no header, and its Setup section starts expanded.

Section	Shown for	What it contains
Charging	Managed EV chargers	When and how much to charge: Charge to a battery level (with Charge before the battery level is known), charge boost, and Charge on solar surplus.
Car	EV chargers	Which cars charge here, the battery level PELS reads from the car, and where the level comes from.
Temperature per mode	Temperature devices	Per-mode target temperatures, with each mode's resume priority (reordered in Modes).
Price response	Temperature devices	Cheap-hour boost and expensive-hour reduction. Stays visible with a hint naming the switch that enables it when price control is off.
Solar surplus (prosumer)	Temperature devices in homes with solar	Solar-surplus boost: how far the target rises while your panels are exporting. Switch it on with Use solar surplus in Setup. See Solar and Self-Consumption.
Stepped load profile	Stepped loads	Step names, planning power values, target-power range, and temperature boost. Hidden for EV chargers using an EV preset, because the preset owns the steps. On any other EV charger it follows Setup, collapsed, with the number of steps and the highest power in its header.
Power limiting	All devices PELS can limit	On an EV charger it also holds Power-limit control, Only PELS starts this device and Leave off until turned on again, and is hidden while the charger is not managed. How far PELS may go when limiting this device — off, a limited temperature, or a lowest step — when there is a real choice; a device with only one possible limit gets a statement of what PELS does instead of a one-button choice. PELS goes only as deep as it needs. A device that reports whether it is heating or cooling gets a second limit, Limited temperature when cooling; see Limited temperature for a heating and cooling device.
Battery	Home batteries	Managed by PELS, power-limit control, and the battery's place in the priority order (Reorder).
Setup	All devices except home batteries	Managed by PELS, power-limit control, only PELS starts this device and leave off until turned on again (all three in Power limiting on an EV charger), When the temperature changes outside PELS, price-based control, Use solar surplus, Run on solar surplus or Match solar surplus (Charge on solar surplus, in Charging, on an EV charger), budget exemption, built-in device control, control model, and Power when running. Opens automatically for devices that are not set up yet.
Smart task	Devices that can take a task	Add smart task, or View task when one is scheduled.
Activity log	All devices	Recent state changes PELS recorded for this device.
Advanced diagnostics	All devices	Read-only history of waiting time, failed restarts, and restart backoff.

Selecting a car chooses its matched battery reading as the charger's battery source. While any car is selected, PELS ignores the Report battery level for charger Flow card. Until a car is matched, the charger has no battery level. Once a selected car has been matched to the charger, Setup & recommendations flags an enabled Flow that still reports battery level for this charger, because that action is ignored while a car is selected. While no selected car has been matched to the charger, it instead warns that the charger has no battery level and suggests clearing the car selection so the Flow keeps working until the car shows as matched. If the selected car was removed from Homey, it can never be matched, so Setup says to clear that selection. Clear the car selection to use native or Flow battery reporting again.

When a selected car is unavailable in Homey, PELS temporarily removes its association and battery level because the retained car data cannot be trusted. The charger remains managed normally. If the car becomes available again while both it and the charger still report a connection, PELS resumes the association automatically; no physical replug is needed.

Notes:

• Power-limit control needs a power reading for the device: its own power meter, or the live value Homey Energy shows for it. Until the first reading arrives, PELS does not limit the device. When a temperature device's app reports no power but a smart plug or sub-meter measures it, see Limit a Temperature Device Through a Virtual Thermostat.
• For a device PELS can switch on and off, the line under Power-limit control says who starts it with your settings. With Power-limit control on, PELS limits the device when it must and also turns it on whenever power allows, even after it was turned off elsewhere; turn on Leave off until turned on again to keep it off after it is turned off elsewhere. With Power-limit control off, PELS does not start the device, and leaves it running when it is started elsewhere. While a smart task is in progress the task decides, and the line begins When no smart task is running.
• Temperature devices can still be managed for mode and price behavior even when power-limit control is unavailable.
• A NIBE heat pump paired with the NIBE myUplink app (Nibe heatpumps) is a temperature device in PELS once the app shows a room temperature: from the BT50 room sensor on F-series pumps, or the controlling myUplink zone on S-series pumps. PELS sets the room setpoint the app shows as Target temperature. An F-series pump follows that setpoint through its room sensor.
• A Stiebel Eltron heat pump paired with the Stiebel Eltron Heat Pumps app appears in PELS as two devices: the heat pump itself, for room heating, and a second device with the same name followed by hot water, for the hot-water tank. Each has its own target temperature, so PELS can heat hot water in cheap hours, or lower it to stay under your limit, without touching the room temperature. Make the community registers visible on your ISG, then turn on ISG supports community registers in the heat pump's device settings, as the Stiebel app describes, so each device gets its own power reading. Without it neither device has a power reading, and PELS manages them for mode and price only.
• Set When the temperature changes outside PELS to Keep the new temperature when another app or Flow owns a thermostat's target. PELS keeps showing the measured temperature and target, and never writes the target itself. It still manages capacity with the device's other controls: turning it off and on, and, for a device with power levels such as a compatible water heater, lowering it a level at a time. Saved temperature settings are kept and apply again when you switch back to Return to mode target.
• Built-in device control lets PELS adjust a supported device, including compatible water heaters and Easee chargers, without a current-control Flow. When an existing Flow already writes the same setting, PELS keeps that working setup and leaves built-in control off: PELS cannot stop a Flow, and the two would override each other. The switch cannot be turned on while that Flow exists, and if it was on, PELS pauses built-in control until the Flow is gone. Setup & recommendations offers an optional migration: disable only the Flow action that controls the device, select Check again, then turn on Use built-in device control. A Flow that only reads the device, turns it on and off, reports battery level, or adjusts an unrelated setting is not a built-in-control conflict. Battery reporting should remain only when no car is selected for that charger; otherwise PELS flags the ignored action separately.
• Only managed devices appear in Settings > Modes. Only managed temperature devices with Price enabled appear in Settings > Price-aware devices.
• Power when running is how much PELS assumes the device draws while it runs, and it decides how much power PELS frees up before resuming it. The field shows the figure PELS is using now and says where it came from — measured by PELS, read from the device, from Homey, or a rough estimate when PELS has no reading yet. Type a value in watts to correct it, or leave it empty to let PELS work it out. It is not shown for stepped loads, which are sized per configured step. If the figure looks wrong and you would rather fix it at the source, check Device -> Advanced Settings -> Energy in Homey and verify the configured power usage values.
• For EV current-control setup, see Configure an EV Charger.

Leave off until turned on again

Off by default, and available for devices PELS can switch on and off. It sits under Power-limit control and appears while that is on, because with Power-limit control off PELS does not turn the device on again anyway.

When it is on and the device is turned off — in Homey, on the device itself, or from another Flow — PELS leaves it off until it is turned on again. Turning the device on again hands it straight back to normal PELS control. Devices PELS turned off itself still resume on their own; this only applies to an off action that did not come from PELS.

With this setting on, one off that PELS made also counts: a device PELS was keeping off for Run on solar surplus. If you turn Run on solar surplus off while the device is off, PELS leaves it off until it is turned on again, instead of starting it from the grid. Turning Run on solar surplus back on later does not start it either; turn the device on once, and PELS runs it on surplus again.

On the Overview the device reads Off with Turned off elsewhere — turn it on to resume.

It covers on and off only. For a thermostat, PELS keeps setting the temperature it would set anyway, even while it is leaving the device off; only Keep the new temperature (under When the temperature changes outside PELS) stops that.

A smart task wins over this setting. In the hours the task books, PELS can turn the device on for it when there is available power, and once the device is on, the hold has ended: it is back under normal PELS control. In the hours the task does not book, the device stays off. Turning the device off during a booked hour does not stop the task; PELS can turn it back on. To keep the device off, remove the task with the Clear smart task Flow card.

A Flow that turns the device off counts as turning it off elsewhere. That matters if you book hours with Flows: when the Flow that ends a booked hour turns the device off, PELS leaves it off, and turning Power-limit control back on is not enough to start it again. The Flow that starts the next booked hour has to turn the device on as well.

It is worth being clear about how this differs from turning Power-limit control off, since both stop PELS resuming a device:

	Power-limit control off	Leave off until turned on again
May PELS limit the device?	No	Yes
May PELS resume it?	No, until you switch control back on	Yes, except while it has been switched off outside PELS, unless a smart task books the hour
How does it go back to normal?	Re-enable Power-limit control	Turn the device on
What it is for	Handing the device to another automation entirely	A temporary override, by you or another automation

Turning the device on gives control back to PELS; it does not promise the device keeps running. If power is tight, PELS may limit it again right away.

One limitation worth knowing: PELS can only notice an off action that your device's Homey integration reports back. A physical switch that does not tell Homey it was pressed is invisible to PELS.

Only PELS starts this device

Use it for a device that should run only when a Smart task needs it, such as an EV charger that starts charging by itself when the car is plugged in. With it on, PELS turns the device off again when it is started in Homey, on the device itself, or from another Flow, and the device runs in the hours its Smart task picks. Without a Smart task it stays off.

It applies while Power-limit control is off. With Power-limit control on, PELS already decides when the device runs, so the setting is paused; it applies again when Power-limit control is turned off. It is offered on the device page while Power-limit control is off, once the device has had a Smart task. Change on a Smart task's When the task is done card opens the device page at Power-limit control.

Missing a device?

Missing a device? is the last card on the Devices page. Its Request support button lists the devices in Homey that PELS does not support, by zone and with their device type, with a search field for name or zone. Tap a device to send a device support request: describe the device and what PELS should do with it, and PELS sends the request through Homey with what Homey reports about the device (its type, its app and its capabilities) and the app's logs. Support for a new device usually comes in an app update within 1–2 days, depending on how complex the device is. To hear back, post in the PELS forum thread and quote the reference PELS shows after sending, or email the developer.

A search that finds no device to request but finds devices PELS already supports lists them instead: under Already on Devices, where a tap opens the device, and the meter PELS reads whole-home power from under Whole-home meter, where a tap opens Power source. The device step of the setup journey shows the same card.

Settings > Modes

Modes let you store different comfort and priority profiles such as Home, Away, Night, or Vacation.

What changes per mode

For each managed device in a mode:

Setting	What it does
Desired temperature	Target temperature for the mode
Priority	Lower number means higher priority. These devices stay on longer and resume first.

Typical approach:

• Keep living-room comfort high in Home mode.
• Move bedroom heating higher during Night mode.
• Lower less critical loads in Away mode.

Changes save automatically.

Settings > Electricity Prices

Price support is optional, but it makes the app more useful for thermal loads, daily budget price shaping, Smart tasks, and cheapest-hour Flow cards.

Setting

What it does

Price source

Choose Norway (spot + grid tariff), Homey Energy (dynamic prices), Power by the Hour (app), or Flow (prices from a Flow card). Until you choose, PELS uses Norway (spot + grid tariff) on a Homey in Norway and Homey Energy elsewhere, going by the country Homey reports for its location. The page then says Not chosen yet with a button to keep that source. Outside Norway, PELS uses Power by the Hour instead when that app can price your home (its only price device, or the one you picked) and no device follows prices yet. Once devices follow prices, PELS never moves them to another source by itself, and the page offers Use Power by the Hour next to Keep Homey Energy. If Homey Energy has no prices for your Homey, the page offers dynamic prices under Energy > Electricity where Homey covers your country, Power by the Hour for European market prices and configured markups, or Use Flow prices for prices you supply for your contract. Check that a source can represent your tariff. Setup keeps Prices open until the selected source has usable prices; Flow needs a price day for today or tomorrow. Choose what PELS does returns to device choices, where you can turn off price-based features and use power limits or solar control without prices.

Power by the Hour reads prices straight from that app, with no Flow to build. Install Power by the Hour (version 8.10.0 or newer), add a price device for your bidding zone in it, and pick this source. If you have more than one price device, PELS asks which one prices your home. The prices are the ones that app publishes — the spot price plus the markups you set there — so the grid tariff is not included unless you added it there yourself as a fixed or time-of-day markup. On a fixed or day/night tariff, turn on Ignore market price (Fixed price only) in the price device. Enter the cheaper rate as Import fixed markup per kWh and what the dearer hours add as Import Extra Time Of Day markup (7:0.08;20:0 adds 0.08 from 07:00 to 20:00). Import Extra Weekend markup replaces it only when not zero, and the app knows no public holidays: change the markup from a Flow on those days.

If you use Norway pricing, you also set:

• county
• grid company
• tariff group
• price area
• pricing model (Strømstøtte or Norgespris)
• provider surcharge
• threshold and minimum difference values

A setting you have not chosen says Not chosen yet and what PELS uses in its place, such as NO1 or Strømstøtte. Without a grid company your prices leave out the grid tariff. Choosing another county clears the grid company, because each grid company serves its own counties.

PELS reads your grid company's energy rates from Fri Nettleie, an open dataset of Norwegian grid tariffs that carries price changes from the day they apply, including changes a grid company has announced ahead. For a grid company Fri Nettleie does not cover, PELS reads the tariff from NVE. If Fri Nettleie cannot be reached, PELS keeps pricing on the tariff it fetched last from there, so the days ahead still follow your grid company's day and night rates and any change it announced.

Grid tariffs from Fri Nettleie are licensed under CC BY 4.0. PELS adds the Enova fee to them and turns them into hourly prices. Grid tariffs from NVE are licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD).

When you open Electricity prices with the Norway source and no grid company or price area chosen, PELS looks up your Homey's location once and shows Suggested from your Homey's location: the grid company whose area your Homey is in, its county, and the price area Homey Energy uses for your Homey. Use these saves them as your choices. Nothing is saved until you tap it. To find the grid company and county, PELS sends your Homey's coordinates to NVE (the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate) and Kartverket (the Norwegian Mapping Authority), only when you open the page with a setting missing.

On the Norway source the Right now card shows the price for the current hour and the parts that add up to it, with VAT: the spot price, the Norgespris adjustment that brings it to the fixed price (smaller or none once the monthly cap is used), the grid tariff (with the Enova fee in it), your provider surcharge, taxes (the consumption tax), and, under Strømstøtte, the support taken off. When the grid tariff is not in the price, because no grid company is chosen or its tariff has not been fetched yet, the card says so.

Cheap and expensive prices says where your threshold and minimum difference put the lines over the prices PELS knows, for example Cheap at or below 56.50 øre · expensive from 94.20 øre. When no price reaches a line, it adds how far the prices stay from it, for example No cheap or expensive prices: they stay between 73.84 and 87.84 øre. It then offers the one change that would make the cheapest quarter of the prices count as cheap, for example under Norgespris, where only the grid tariff moves the price. When the threshold is what keeps them normal, it offers a lower one: tap Use 9 % (or the percentage shown) to save it. When the minimum difference is, it offers a lower one: tap Use 9 øre (or the value shown). PELS suggests nothing below 5 %, nothing that would also mark a price expensive, and nothing when both settings keep the prices normal, since neither change alone would make them cheap.

If you use external flow tags:

1. Set Price source to Flow (prices from a Flow card).
2. Feed the full JSON payload for today's prices into Set external prices (today).
3. Feed tomorrow's payload into Set external prices (tomorrow) when available.

Export price (prosumer)

If you sell surplus solar back to the grid, turn on Use an export price and set a share of the spot price and/or a fixed amount.

The fixed amount is in øre on the Norway source and in your currency on the others. When the price source changes, whether you pick another one or PELS switches a Homey outside Norway to Homey Energy, PELS turns the export price off rather than read a fixed amount in the wrong unit, so turn it back on and enter the amount again. A share of the spot price is set to 0 on a source without a spot price.

On the Homey Energy price source you also get Where the price comes from:

• Amounts I enter here — the two amounts above. This is the default, and what every existing setup keeps.
• Homey Energy — the export price you already set up in Homey under Energy > Electricity. Choosing it replaces the amount fields, because the price then comes from Homey. If Homey has no export price set up, or PELS cannot work out the formula, PELS plans on the import price as it would for a home with no export price at all, and your own amounts are no longer applied, so check Energy > Electricity in Homey before switching. See Getting paid for solar you export.

On the Power by the Hour price source the same choice offers Power by the Hour: the feed-in price that app publishes for each period, after the export markups you set on its price device. Without any export markup there, the feed-in price equals the import price, so set those markups first. Choosing it replaces the amount fields here too.

PELS then schedules against the blended planning price (what your energy is actually worth once export is accounted for), while your bills, receipts, and the budget's money view stay on the import price you are billed. This section appears once PELS can see your solar (a managed solar device reports production, or your meter has recorded about a kilowatt-hour of grid export), and stays visible if you already have an export price configured. See Solar and Self-Consumption.

Settings > Price-Aware Devices

This page adjusts devices that already have price response enabled. To add a device here, first open the device under Settings > Devices and enable Price or Setup > Price-based control.

The page starts with Prices from: the price source these devices respond to, marked Not set up while PELS prices with a source or a Norway setting you have not chosen, or the source has no prices. The device's Price-based control says the same.

Setting	What it does
Respond to prices	Enables or disables price response globally.
Cheap (°C)	The device's cheap-hour boost: how far its temperature goes up while power is cheap.
Expensive (°C)	The device's expensive-hour reduction: how far its temperature goes down while power is expensive.

Water heaters and similar thermal loads are usually the best first candidates.

Settings > Simulation Mode

Simulation mode lets you test behavior without switching devices.

Setting	What it does
Simulation mode	PELS shows what it would do, but Main home devices are not switched automatically.

Use this while you are tuning priorities, power estimates, and limits. Turn it off when you are ready for PELS to control devices.

Simulation mode covers your Main home. Each meter area has its own Control devices in this area switch under Limits & safety, so an area can keep limiting its devices while Simulation mode is on.

Settings > Report a problem

Describe what happened and send the report. PELS adds relevant device activity and current state. Opening the form from a device, Smart task or Activity entry keeps that context; an Activity entry also sets the incident time.

Problem reports and device-support requests use the same sending and follow-up flow. Sending the report is all the developer needs. If you would like an answer, post in the PELS forum thread and quote the report reference, or email the developer. The email link includes your description and the report reference. Copying the diagnostic report is available if Homey cannot send it.

Settings > Advanced

Advanced is for diagnostics, cleanup, and expert tuning.

Setting	What it does
Debug logging	Turns on the log streams for the scenarios you are investigating.
Diagnostics reports	Send a daily diagnostics report, or Send a report on specific events, to the developer.
Reset usage history	Clears hourly samples, daily totals, and weekday/weekend averages.
Clear device data	Removes stored PELS metadata for one selected device.
Device log	Writes a selected Homey device payload to the app logs for inspection.

Background usage reserve and Managed device flexibility are edited in the Budget page's Adjust view (Budget shaping section), reachable from the Budget page header or the Daily budget row in Settings. Only change them if you understand the tradeoff — they can materially change when devices are limited and resumed.

For the exact formulas, see Daily Budget Weighting Math.

Suggested setup order

1. Connect your power meter (Power meter or Flow card).
2. Enable management on a small set of obvious devices.
3. Tune priorities and limits.
4. Add price-aware devices.
5. Add daily budget pacing if you want whole-day guidance.
6. Add Smart tasks for devices that must reach a target by a ready-by time.

For EV charging, add EV charger current control after the power meter and capacity settings are working.