joeman

Aim: To get a new Solar user up and running with Home Assistant within a couple of minutes. (If you are running a Deye/Sunsynk/Sol-Ark then this is for you) 
What I did: I started a clean home assistant server https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/  and started installing the required plugins, defining needed options in configuration.yaml/templates.yaml etc setting up a automations needed to aid comms to the inverter settings/send & receive telegram messages. And lastly setup a solar desktop with info complete with graphs and displays, config settings etc, that I copied from my production system.
It took me months to get to this point with my home assistant so I hope my effort will speed up the process for new Home Assistant users 
I made a backup that can be restored in a minute giving you all the required building blocks.
Project can be found here:
https://github.com/tomatensaus/DeyeSolarDesktop
Check under releases for the latest backup if you wish to restore
 
I am also selling a smartDeyeDongle that is plug and play (Currently in beta testing for single phase inverters). You simply plug them into the inverter and connect them to your WIFI and they will show up on your Home Assistant server translating all the values to the existing desktop. You will be able to view and change the inverter values from your desktop or automation. It can run fully disconnected from the internet if that is your need.
 
There are still some things you need to do yourself that I cannot do:
Register your own telegram bot to send commands/receive notifications from your Home Assistant. This will allow you to receive notifications when loadshedding starts/ends. 
Register on sepush.co.za to get access to the api so you can receive the loadshedding info in home assistant
If you want to use another method for collecting data that is cool too (Just translate the entity names).
https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk  
https://github.com/StephanJoubert/home_assistant_solarman
There is no reason why you should not be able to copy bits and pieces from this desktop for your own home assistant desktop. Even if you use another inverter all the relevant yaml files are included. Grab what you like, delete what does not suit you
 
I tried to document how the various pieces go together. Home Assistant is unfortunately a bit of a learning curve.
 

We're using a less elegant system, but so far the results are okay.
My oven is on the non-essentials, so if the LED clock on the oven is on, you can use what you want.
If it's off, you can't.