Everything posted by kellerza
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Are you referring to those 25-pin behemoth connectors that used to be popular with printers? Haven't seen one in 15 years... Pierre is quite responsive. Not sure which one you refer to. The Solarman integration in my addon is fairly new. Changing settings is possible. Yes, you would need a cable to each to pull individual power/energy stats. It's only the settings/system mode controlled from the master.
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
With a multi-Inverter setup the first inverter controls settings, but to get proper stats you need to read them individually. It was discussed extensively here (some install pics as well) - https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk/issues/39 The latest addon ships with these default sensors: SENSORS: - energy_management - power_flow_card SENSORS_FIRST_INVERTER: - settings
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
In a recent issue there was one user where it worked perfectly, and another that could not write at all. Turned out that Solar-Assistant also has it documented that the RS485 could be read-only. So you are one of the lucky ones...
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Once you add cards (HACS I assume) you have to reload the frontend / Ctrl-F5. Restarting your HA won't do anything
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
A better option could be the HF5142? - see https://kellerza.github.io/sunsynk/guide/wiring#ethernet-to-rs485-gateways Some of the 16kW Inverters seem to be read-only on their RS485 ports, in which case you have to connect them with RS232
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Did you only enable the “long term forecast”? 🤣
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Slipx’s made the lovelace/gui plugin, which can be used by any inverter, or any method of getting the inverter data My addon is an alternative for the ESPhome solution (or solarassistant) I documented why on my website, main reason I prefer the addon: - Much less updates, but more accurate where it matters - for something that potentially streams data every second, “the garage is too far” is not a good enough reason not to install a wire (I’m not against ESPHome, probably have 15 of them in/around the house, but its not for telemetry)
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Indeed the entity_id is the link between the two… There has been some naming behaviour where the device name is prepended to the entity name to form the entity id. (Fixed it in my addon recently) So you should remove the friendly_name part from all your sensors name: "${friendly_name} xxxxx sensor”
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
In slipx's card, the entity names contains a number. Match that with your register address
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
This is the definition for the sensor “pv2_power” or “PV2 Power”… they are all the same https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk/blob/main/src/sunsynk/definitions.py#L81 Sensor(187, "PV2 power", WATT, -1), Have a look at the definitions.py file and simply use any name you see in there
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Home Assistant Eskom Prepaid
I’m still using it
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
@JuanH did you manage to get it working? updated the docs link shared earlier- so hopefully a bit clearer
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
`pv2_power` ? https://kellerza.github.io/sunsynk/reference/definitions#single-phase-inverter-sensor-definitions the docs might need some rearrangement, since I added the “groups” at the top
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
This is not possible, as all sensors & all inverters use the same availability topic - the concept of availability is per addon, not inverter, not sensors. So something else is wrong and won't be able to help without more details, which can be captured in the Issue https://kellerza.github.io/sunsynk/reference/schedules You get the default/"template" if you reset your config. The quoted schedule is from the default.
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
_power changed to _energy a looong time ago. But it might be that the previous version of the addon still substituted all those deprecated sensors. Now it will just raise a warning If you fixed it, the entity_ids will be different in HA and you need to update your Energy settings and UI elements to use the new sensor entity_ids (or rename the entities, but I won't advise that) Look at Settings -> Devices & Services -> Devices and you can open the device and see all it's associated sensors. If still not working, open an Issue on github with more detail
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
While I don't have a generator, someone was more interested in 235 than 234: https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk/blob/main/src/sunsynk/definitions.py#L159
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
What registers did you try & what did you set them to?
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SunSynk - Inverter Monitoring
That is probably a copy & paste issue and should be for the 12kW & 16kW 3-phase inverters
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
The ota pw is baked into the firmware on the esp. You can only update the fw if the ota matches
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Yes. Tbh, there might still be changes needed in the frequency in which data is being read through the solarman dongle. Will see if I can throttle it down sometime this week.
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Hi @Blouwildebees You can definitely update settings with the Sunsynk Addon, see some examples and automations here. If you have a wired connection, you can be a lot more aggressive in reading settings. The addon typically reads important parameters (Watts) every second and can report immediately if there is a significant change (big load change). For less important parameters (config, kWh) it only reports every couple of minutes. Your Home Assistant does not have to be close to the inverter. I run my mbusd gateway on a Pi 1B with wired Ethernet. See here for more options. There is a PR waiting to add Solarman dongle support to the addon. Although that will limit you to 15second read intervals. But from the ode it does seem like you can write settings, even with the Solarman dongle.
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Half of the issues with an unstable HASS OS is probably storage related, the other half a flakey power supply. Standard install & standard MQTT here. I have the official Pi PSU with external SSD storage. Without proper storage, any solution writing loads of stats to the SD card will be doomed in the long run.
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Sunsynk Inverter configuration questions
- Zero Export - never feed power into the grid (using the grid-CT coil) - Limit to load only - never feed power to non-essential circuits (between grid-CT coil and the inverter) In the HASS addon I call them {0: "Allow Export", 1: "Essentials", 2: "Zero Export"} (register 244) Never tried "Solar export only", but this is probably "Allow Export, but not using batteries".
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My Sunsynk 8Kw & data collection setup
Sounds like fun, but I'm travelling next week. Will try for the next one 😉