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  1. Same boat with the Grid-tied on my side. And the rain does not help much. This is at 07:50 with light rain.
  2. The rain is not helping much, but I am surprised at how much is generated from the cloudy/raining days. Dropped from 8.5kWh to around 1.5kWh at this stage.
  3. Just confirm that the pclinkshot is legit. I have not seen much reviews or always doubt their prices.
  4. I went with the Sonoff T1 US switch as this range fit in the normal SA wall box
  5. If you are in a normal house with the wires in the roof it would be quite easy as you can just run a neutral wire back from the light fitting to the switch. If you don't want to do that you can use some of the RF wall switches that don't need a neutral. But the problem with that is that you don't know what is the current state of the button. Sonoff actually in the last week released a sonoff wall switch that you don't need the neutral wire.
  6. What I did for mine is. Main bedroom added a 3 gang sonoff wall touch. Bedside lamps each on their own sonoff basics. 3ch wall touch, 1st channel turn bathroom light on and off.2nd channel is fan. 3rd channel through node-red I turn both bedside lamps on. On the bedside lamps I use the sonoff basic button to turn it on and off. Coded node-red to turn off 3rd channel of the wall touch off if both bedside lamp is turn off. On the bedside lamp's sonoff basic switch I programmed the long press and double tap to turn the fan on and off. So anyone can turn the fan off/on while in bed. Results : You can use the sonoff wall switch as normal on the wall to turn on bathroom light/bedside lamps/fan. While in the bed using the basics connected to the bedside lamps I can turn the lights/ fan on and off. Never need to use phone for anything. Adding these stuff must be user friendly continue to use as normal. Then added the custom commands to alexa to either turn on/off the lights/fan.
  7. But the DC from the solar panels is 99% of the time there if the sun is up. A wind turbine does not output if it stand still.
  8. I am going back to my previous post, only activate the DHCP on one router and use one ip range for everything ex : 192.168.2.xx Then use the pi with a network cable. Follow the setup installation on the HA site. Is your DNS and gateway setup correctly?
  9. Did this a few weeks ago when it was so cold during the day. Also saw a massive increase that day.
  10. Saw a non Revov advertisement for the 7.4kw 2nd Life battery for R29 900.
  11. Looks like it was updated, earlier the week it showed 24v @ 150ah
  12. Strange, saw the add. Comments from the supplier indicated 200ah for the 5.12. If you go to the site is shows 150ah battery which works out to 3.86
  13. Is there a reason the wired and wifi is on a different IP range? DNS looks like google, is this hard coded in your router setup? Please draw us a picture, I think you setup is over complicated with multiple ranges
  14. Is your router not maybe blocking the connection from the Pi to the internet. Maybe some ports or firewall settings. Maybe port forwarding is required?
  15. You look really at the start of your HA setup. Format the SD card with the new software version. Plug the sd card in, network cable and then the power. Give it 20min and then access the url it gets from the router. If you don't know what IP the device got, load Fing app on your phone and it will scan all the devices on the network and tell you the IP. It should be connected to the internet and most of the stuff will start to work.
  16. Best I would say is to try and keep the IP range the same, disable the dhcp on the 192.168.2.1. And just run everything of the 192.168.0.111 dhcp. Or change your Pi to also get the ip from the 192.168.2.1 dhcp
  17. Did you add the integration part? Configuration -> Integration -> "+" and select tplink?
  18. https://github.com/peterbuga/HASS-sonoff-ewelink Add this to your config. sonoff: username: email password: password scan_interval: 60 grace_period: 600 api_region: 'eu' entity_prefix: True debug: False And add the custom components.
  19. Why don't you spend the extra R30 and get the Sonoff POW R2 then you can also measure the power usage on the geyser?
  20. For Home Assistant I flashed a few sonoff pow's to get the data into it. But I don't want to run the freezer on it with tasmota, and I want to check independently if we are away if it is running and what is the power usage of the last few days. Found a component now that you can get the data from the sonoff's directly into HA without it being flashed or through webhooks. And the best of all it include the power usage as well.
  21. Ours is also quite high this month, don't know what is going on. Used to be around 39/day but this month it is at 59/day.
  22. Sounds about right. More knowledgeable people will also comment but some of the cheap pre-paid meters does not measure the flow direction. It just calculate what is moved through the meter in this case it is 3kw.
  23. I guess it went like this between ?????????????? and the Goverment. ??????????? : We can create more local jobs. Goverment: Where do we sign? But we want a kickback. ??????????: We can't give you a kickback, but what we can do is add more tax on imports and you can pocket that. Goverment: Deal
  24. You guys are bringing code up that I only vaguely remember. I have limited Unix experience and lots of windows. I prefer windows as it is easy to navigate and get started with something that does not have any docs. For Unix and the RPi it is extremely difficult for me to do something without following some step by step guide on the internet or a 30min google session just to open and CLOSE the text editor. Windows, navigation is easy and I can just click and navigate until I find something that works.
  25. I saw a post on FB HA page about a guy that did a nice integration into his HA with pylontech batteries and inverter as well. This is my basic one.
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