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Morning, how did you set this up? Do you have automations that switch the geysers off during load-shedding etc?

thanks again. I tried everything that you said and I'm still not able to get it to work. I reverted to 1 battery, tried with both inverters and no luck. I guess will have to accept that I'm stuck with voltages and can't get the percentages to work. Seems as if i don't have the one with the can and rs485 port. I only have 2 ports, one port labelled BMS and one port labelled RS485 nothing called CAN port.

Morning Thanks so much for taking the time to respond and providing such a comprehensive set of instructions. It is really appreciated. just a question around the firmware. Is there only 1 firmware file for the spf5000tl-hmv-p inverter or is there 2 firmware files that need to be applied? The guy who came out only applied 1 firmware file and earlier in this post @SiliconKid mentioned 2 firmware files however I'm not sure if that is for the ES? if so where would i get the 2nd firmware file from?

Has anyone actually managed to get the Growatt spf5000tl-hmv-p 2 x 5KWH in parallel working with the Pylontech UP5000 batteries (battery FW is on version 2.8?) I've tried everything mentioned on the forum.If I select LI02 it just shows that the batteries are at 100% even though they are not at 100% and it doesn't switch over to Eskom. If I select LI04 it just beeps and flips between error 04 and error 20 and eventually switches off because it can't read the batteries. I know for a fact that the batteries are at about 40% but it only shows 100% and then it will display a 04 error and then flip to 20 then back to 04 then back to 20. Any tips or any ideas? Also tried different cat 5 cables with and without GND. I've tried the dip switches on 1000 and 0001 The inverter only has the ports as per the pictures below. So no can port. I don's how some people have managed to get theirs to work.

excellent thanks for that, I didn't notice, until you mentioned it. I'll clean it up now that I got it working. appreciate the hard work and generosity.

again figured it out, put it in the sensors.yaml file and had to fix the indentations

never mind i see that i need to create the template sensors for grid_status_19 and inverter_status_59 where exactly do i put it though? I tried to put it in my configuration.yaml and or sensors.yaml file however I get errors when i check the config from developer tools.

thanks for the reply. No definitely not being loadshed, you can see it was showing that i was consuming 22w from the grid. It stays like that all the time.

sorry any idea why I'm getting this? I can't figure out which sensor to use for the grid.

agree, I'm using solar assistant and it's such a mission with all of the different entity names to setup cards and dashboards.

Hey @Sc00bs I've also been watching your vids. Very very cool. They are very relevant and I'm sure they are helping. I see there are one's on geyser automations around load-shedding. I've been looking for something like that, I will check it out and see how I go.

no problem, thanks anyway I appreciate it. I'll stick with the modern image. I know fork all about forking code.

Thanks again for the response.that was my whole point was to please add an image of the Deye inverter just like the Sunsync Modern no gives you the Sunsynk inverter pic and then if you set it to yes it just gives a generic pic. Pic 1 what i was hoping for is this, a pic of the Deye inverter.

I managed to install the dashboard and play with the changing of the image but it doesn't seem to have the images for a Deye inverter.