Created A Home Assistant Dashboard Display For My Garage To Show Info About My Rivian!

Rivian Blue · 2025-04-01T08:59:34+00:00

Ever since I got my R1S, I've noticed that the battery range estimation hasn't been the best. Driving a Tesla for the last 3 years, it never had this kind of issue. During my last trip, the driver display shows 255mi remaining. My total trip (including 2 destinations) is 160mi so I believed I should be able to make it easily with a nice cushion. But the center display showed that I would arrive at first destination with 4mi remaining, and run out before the second destination! I knew this was false so I made the drive anyway, and arrived at second destination with 50mi remaining. If I understand correctly, the driver display range is simply the total rated range multiplied by SOC. That makes sense here, since my vehicle is rated for 370mi, 255mi is 68.9%. Coming from Tesla, I expect the number shown in the center display should account for factors like elevation, wind, traffic speed, etc. It's sad that my own mental estimation is better than Rivian's.

wildlife R1T

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Mar 23, 2025

I do a lot of tinkering away at various things in my garage (detailing car, 3d printing, etc) it’s my own personal space. So I created this dashboard display that would show me information about my Rivian. I also preferred having the display in the garage for me to be able to look at.

I think it's nice to glance over occasionally and see cool nerdy stuff like the chargers handle temp, what state of charge the truck is at, what the charge rate is (instead of having to look at the Rivian app or my phone at all), and it will also give me an alert of a new software update, etc

But that’s the beauty of it. You can choose to put the display anywhere you want! The garage, the entry hallway, mud room, bedroom, etc

For the setup, it’s an Amazon Echo Hub. All I did was use the built in web browser to open my home assistant dashboard. And I added an iframe into my dashboard from GitLab. That iframe will prevent the Echo Hub from timing out the browser so it will keep the home assistant dashboard running 24/7.

And then I obviously created the home assistant dashboard that’s displayed. Sorry if this was a horrible explanation. I’m terrible at explaining things.