Weather Data

[Ed P]

On our setup (which is minus the battery management system for now), I can just enter the IP address of the inverter (actually the total micro-inverter’s consolidated output), and that gives me a web page that updates every five minutes or on demand.

The web page itself is fairly basic but does allow you to grab current generation, and see if there is any problem with the panels.

[Ed P]

I would guess the easiest way of automating usage would be to use IFTTT on this total generation page.

[JayCeeDee]

Check out that YT channel I linked to earlier, he didn’t only go OTT on the panels, he also has on stats, spreadsheets and automating everything. He has one with temperature ( and humidity? ) in the individual rooms through the day!!👍🏻

[Drezha]

JayCeeDee wrote:

Check out that YT channel I linked to earlier, he didn’t only go OTT on the panels, he also has on stats, spreadsheets and automating everything. He has one with temperature ( and humidity? ) in the individual rooms through the day!!👍🏻

As do I 😉 Home Assistant covers everything now – all the different types of smart home equipment I’ve bought in the past, it’s now all controlled through one app – which has meant my wife is totally on board. So my Hue bulbs work perfectly alongside my Kasa/TP-Link smart switches as well as my temperature/humidity sensors in each (main) room.

Current automation I’ve been working on allows me to scan an NFC tag next to the bed when I want to charge my bedside equipment – this starts the attached process, which then waits until my inverter is kicking out 100 W and then turns on the switch. I get Telegram messages to confirm it’s primed to start, and then it charges until sunset and it switches off. If the value of the invester hasn’t got to 100W after 5 hours, I get a message so I can manually enable charging.

I’ve not bothered setting it to switch on and off with the solar, as I want it to charge really, so I’m happy for some grid use – however, I’m trying to maximise the solar used.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[JayCeeDee]

That’s brilliant – good progress, and with the solar, it can only get better.👍🏻

Being at home all day means that we can opt for our brains to do the automating. All for the good, really as the wife’s proficiency in Home Automation is tested by the Google Mini in the spare bedroom. She can just about get it to play some Country music when she does the ironing!!

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