Resume battery operation

The Teslemetry: Resume battery operation action ends a battery power dispatch before its duration ends, and returns the Powerwall to its normal operation. It is sent directly to your Powerwall over your local network, so the energy site must be paired for local control.

Use it to hand control back to your Powerwall as soon as the reason for a dispatch is gone, for example when a demand response event ends early.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To resume battery operation from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Teslemetry: Resume battery operation.
6. Select the Energy site to control.
7. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required. For how an automation or a script is built in YAML, refer to Automations in YAML and Scripts.

In YAML, refer to this action as teslemetry.resume_battery_operation. A basic example looks like this:

action: teslemetry.resume_battery_operation
data:
  device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31

Options in YAML

Good to know

• You don’t need this action for a dispatch to end. When its duration ends, the Powerwall returns to its normal operation by itself.
• Calling it when no dispatch is active does nothing.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Settings > Tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

Still stuck?

To test the action on its own, run it in the automation editor with Run action, and check the message that it shows. To see what the action did when the automation ran, open the trace of that run. For details, refer to Testing automations. For common problems and their solutions, refer to Troubleshooting automations.

If that doesn’t help, the Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

Explore related actions:

• Dispatch battery power: Charges or discharges the Powerwall at a set power for a set time over the local gateway connection.