In my spare time, I've been familiarizing myself with the operation of the solar power system. It's either easy or complicated - your choice. So far I've been taking the easy route because I've been so busy. Everything is just "ON" all the time.
But there is an app on my phone that I can use to monitor the power flow and turn circuits in the Smart Panel on or off as needed to save power. As you might expect, there is a learning curve. It shows me the real-time current flow through each breaker on my phone. I can program a circuit to turn on or off temporarily, during certain hours, or certain days. The first thing I want to do is program it to turn the circuits to the water heaters and the car charger off at night. I'll probably turn the circuit to the clothes dryer off at night too, although that will depend on the wrath of Vicki if she decides she wants to do laundry at 4:00 AM. After that I'll watch circuits and see what I need to do to save power.
This is a screen shot of the phone app. There is a bar for every circuit in the Smart Panel showing how much power is being used by that breaker.
This is the battery. Expensive little box.
The Smart Panel is on the left, and the inverter is on the right. Real Space Age stuff sitting next to a derlict, land line phone panel.