JTUBB

The dashboard can take a while to get right depending on how much data you have, I have just got mine sorted and started a while back.

Only after I really used @slipx wiki to figure things out did I really come right but worth it in the end.

undefined should show data once there are enough data points.
 
 

With all the changes in Load Shedding levels I thought it would be a good idea to a video on a really easy way to switch your inverter between settings. 
Works really well and pretty easy to do. 
Only working with the ESP32 integration as that allows for the changing of inverter settings as default 
Maybe   @Gary Waterworth and @stephanjoubert can let us know if it is possible to write settings back to the inverter using their integrations 
 

Hi @Richyrich
I did a video on adjusting your settings based on the load shedding level from EskomSePush. 
You can use pretty much the same automation and just change the entities from ESP to Solcast and adjust the values as you want. 
Can do a video if you like 🙂 
 
 

Done and good luck.

Done and good luck.

Here's a slight contribution to the goodness on this thread which lives on my main HA screen:

type: custom:bar-card entities: - entity: sensor.load_shedding_area_eskde_4_sandownext10cityofjohannesburggauteng icon: mdi:power color: Red min: '1' max: '8' target: 'off' - entity: sensor.sunsynk_battery_soc min: '0' max: '100' target: '100' name: 'Inverter Battery Charge ' icon: mdi:battery color: Green - entity: sensor.sunsynk_daily_pv_power_kwh min: '0' max: '32' target: '100' name: Daily Solar Production icon: mdi:solar-power-variant color: orange - entity: sensor.pool_temperature_sensor icon: mdi:pool-thermometer min: '0' max: '32' target: '0' severity: null color: '#5490c2' - entity: sensor.jojo_tank_volume icon: mdi:water-pump target: '5' severity: - from: '0' to: '100' max: '2400' min: '0' color: '#5fb6ad' - entity: sensor.speedtest_ping target: '5' from: '0' to: '100' color: Purple columns: '1'  

There are a couple of things you will need to check:
1 - in etc/mosquitto/conf.d/ you need a file names solar-assistant.conf with the data below (using your SA's IP address of course

2 - In your solar assistant configuration you need the following setup

 
3 - In your mosquitto broker configuration

 
Once thats all done you restart HomeAssistant and reload the broker and then it should all work
 

Did you manage to get sorted?
There should be an entity available from the integration that will tell you if the area you are in is in a period of loadshedding (based on day and time). It should be called sensor.loadshedding_(area) - you can find it in the developer options

You can then use the status of this + check for grid frequency / voltage as a safety to then identify that you are indeed being loadshed. So the logic would be:
Is sensor.loadshedding_(area) = on AND is grid frequency less than 48v
if yes then (do something with camera)
 

Ditto for Solar Assistant, have been happily using since just after my system was installed last October. Also run a Deye inverter, but with REVOV batteries.

@JDSym @JTUBB I've uploaded the dashboard to GitHub. I've also added some new views. Remember to install all the necessary components and update your sensor names.
I've been using an ESP32 running ESPHOME without issues. 
https://github.com/slipx06/Sunsynk-Home-Assistant-Dash
 

Struggling to make sense of the various pieces on the other forum, but above is a piece of the Paradox Olarm integration that I have managed to cover. 
There is a slight delay given the polling time on the Rest API. Still a lot to figure out and then to see how it can be used with Alarmo and my Aqara Sensors to create a double alarm.
 

I believe the API is in BETA. I’m not making much progress myself, but did find the link below and am trying to get it running.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/olarm-integration/384560/30
I managed to get the API logging a call with there support, and using curl or the https link, I can see all available data in JSON, but stuck at that point.
Will add more later.

Here is my energy dashboard to give you some ideas. I've just converted to plotly graphs. 

Perfect on the above. Many thanks.
Now I turn my eyes to Olarm integration via their API.

@francois & @SolarNoob
I have an Axpert 5kVA MKS II, 10x 285W ArtSolar panels and 8x 200Ah Vision 6FM200Z-X AGM batteries
Also have a BMV-702 on the way and Victron balancers on backorder. 
I've fallen behind on my HA stuff, I have a box full of sonoffs and shelleys that i need to get to. Also need to pull out the ladder and flash my sonoff POW on the geyser with tasmota.
I have to work from home next week thanks to Covid-19 so I might finally get around to some of it.
These are my other screens on HA, sorry this is going to be a lot of pics. I'm, new to the forum not sure what the etiquette is 
 
After the inverter dashboard is lights, nothing exciting here

 
Then Pool, I also have an automation to send an mqtt command to the POW on the pool to reset the "Total Since" counter at midnight on the 1st of Every month so I can easly graph monthly totals from inglux/grafana. I haven't added the bar graph yet

 
Gate and Garage doors, done with Sonoff SVs and reed switches. I'm in a security estate so I wasn't too worried about the secuity of the sonoff on the gate. I've at least disabled the built in AP that gets activated when it can't see the Wifi. 

 
Garden Irrigation -  I use Openspinkler

 
Weather and Geyser temperature. I have a Solar Gesyer with limited early morning boosting in the mornings so good to see what the water temp is at in the evening.
When I get around to flashing the POW on the geyser I want to add thermostatic control from HA. The standard geyser thermostat on the element will act as a hard shutoff in case something goes crazy in HA

 
Main bedroom only has aircon for now. If the aircon is drawing more than 100W after sunset and the grid goes down it will turn off the aircon. I have a Wifi enabled infrared remote hub that I havent finished setting up yet. Hopefully I will be able to control all functions of the aircon when done

 
Then my 3d floorplan with animations and presence detection. This was a proof of concept so the image is lacking a lot of detail.
In the gif the first click is from clicking on the room in HA, the next one you can see the light going on and off from using the actual light switch.

This might be overshare of what my place looks like but this is where my renderings are now. I still need to add trees, plants, pool, 2nd floor and some inhouse detail. I'm also waiting to get all the smart switches installed before I render all the layers with things on/off or open/closed. My Goal is to have a tablet or 2 with the 3D view of the house to see the state of everything as well as control everything.
 

not sure whayst going with the artifacts on the cars...





 
And then  random crap on my testing page, i build cards here and then move them over to the main pages 
 

 
That's it for now. Hopefully i get time to grow it over the next few weeks. I'm also liking @Jatho dark theme, might change mine up  

I bought an old 2nd hand HP ProDesk SFF PC at the beginning of lockdown to drive a few monitors.
At some point my Raspberry Pi SD got trashed once to often and I started looking to run HA as a Virtual Machine on VirtualBox. For me this has worked really well, as it is reasonably simple to make a backup of the whole system once in a while.  Had a good UPS behind the PC before I went Solar so I had time to shutdown if load shedding went on to long.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/windows/
The more you read and follow the experts here, the deeper the rabbit hole.
Good luck!

It all depends on what you want to achieve. 
Light switches - No need to flash with Tasmota.  Can integrate directly with HA.  For those places where you can't get a neutral to light switch you can have a look at the Eachen switches as well, they use the same Ewelink platform Normal On/ Off control of devices - No need to flash. Integrates directly with HA Complicated load control - For example controlling Geysers.  Suggest to flash with Tasmota. The advantage of the Tasmota is the ability to set up "Rules" on the device itself which are stored in the ROM.  This provides additional backup should your HA fail for some odd reason or the unit looses it's WiFi connection.  For example, I have the following rules running on the TH16's controlling my geysers
Switch off when the temperature exceeds 65C.  Home assistant is set up to heat the Geysers to 60C, if HA fails to switch off the unit at 60 then I know the unit will switch off itself at 65 Keep the unit switched off when the temperature drops below 5C.  This is just incase the unit looses connection to the temperature sensor Switch off when the MQTT connection to HA fails.  This prevents the Geyser from heating if the Wifi connection drops or my HA fails. Some examples of items which I have currently automated/ controlling through HA
27 light switches.  Majority of them runs on Sonoff switches, the down stairs switches runs on Eachen as it is a hassle to get a neutral through the concrete slab. 2x Geysers.  Using Sonoff TH16 with DS18B20 temperature sensors, tasmota firmware and 40a relays 1x Pool Pump. Using Sonoff TH16.  Automated to run only when excess Solar generation is available. 1x Fountain pump.  Using Sonoff Basic, automated to run on a timer SunSynk Inverter.  Inverter values are communicated to HA via MQTT Wifi Mesh System.  Asus based Wifi Mesh, provides notifications when certain devices join/ drop off the network. 2x Home Theatre receivers.  The one receiver is automated to automatically turn on the projector, turn off the downlights and turn on the LED light strips when switched on.  Reverse when the receiver is turned off  1x Aircon.  Using Sensibo as gateway. Automated to operated at different modes based on the target temperature.  Will only turn on based on room temperature, time schedule and if we are at home Robotic Vacuum Cleaner.  Garden Sprinkler System.  Integrated with my Bhyve system.  Watering schedules based on weather forecast. Garage Doors. Using Sonoff SV flashed with Tasmota.  Can check if the doors are open or closed.  Can also open/ close via the app All of the above are nicely integrated with the mobile App.  I'm not using the HA cloud service, using port forwarding with integrated firewall in my router setup.
Some other nice features which you can build into the automations:
Limit/ reduce loads based on Load shedding status Check who is at home (based on wifi connections) Shopping List.  Useful to add notes of items to buy, I'm thinking of mounting an old tablet in the kitchen to easily add items as the need arise.

Think I figured it out. Copied the Raw Config file.
EDIT: Open the file at the bottom with notepad or Text Editor. Copy and paste in Dashboard "Raw configuration editor"
You need to install the following custom cards:
card-mod
Flexible Horseshoe card
Layout card
Atomic Calendar Revive card
Mushroom card
Plotly Graph card
Sunsynk card (manual download from @slipx
 
Home Assistant Dashboard

Once you get your Home Assistant and Solar Assistant talking then you can give me a shout and we can work through the steps. It's not too complex 

I'm also a big fan of home assistant.
This is my dashboard for my Axpert MKS II. I have a raspberry pi connected to it with bidirectional MQTT to my home assistant server.
The server used to be just a pi 3 but it started getting a bit sluggish with all the data points. I've since migrated to an old 4th gen i3 with a cheap SSD
 

 
I've done some other stuff as well if you guys are interested to see. 
 
Also have 3d animations working but still working on a full detailed rendering of the house before I integrate it fully.
 
 
 

I love my Home Assistant install (running on an old laptop with docker)  and have it linked to my Victron setup via colour GX - automations linked to solar are simple at the moment related to when I have excess solar - like linking battery and solar status to geysor status (turns on in day if battery is full).
But once grid tied (hopefully in 2 weeks time) I internd to use it to controll the charge cycles from the grid to minimise/eliminate municipal bill (in PE you can use the grid like a big battery as long as you consume in same time of use period as credit is generated). Battery will get me though the Peak periods in evening and morining. Intend to have a toggle for when there is loadshedding which will make sure the battery keeps about a certain percentage - have thought of pulling in the schedule but not sure I have the skills for that   
Here is a snap shot of live info on my dashboard at about 12:00noon (3kw is being wasted as it has no where to go)  - at moment Geyser and dehumidifier are on because of following conditions, Grid setpoint is 200W:
a) Battery > 95%
b) Family is in town (device tracking)
c) Daylight hours

 

Thank you - i dunno about lessons but happy to walk you through them and share the YAML code as well - a lot of it is a mixture of copy-paste and trying to figure it out as well. Also checkout ese videos >> 
 
 

Hi mzezman,
I really like some of your dashboard work.. Do you give lessons?
 

HI Jason,
Even as more of a lurker who is very new to this the forum is greatly appreciated.

HI Jason,
Even as more of a lurker who is very new to this the forum is greatly appreciated.