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Good morning. I hope it's viable to ask for assistance. I am looking for someone who can assist us with fibre splicing in the East Rand erea Gauteng. Thank you in advance.

I thought it would be the best device, cheap best device to read the data. It gives so maybe entities. I'm trying to plan solar for our office. Just wanted the spikes and total kw/h The current is in Ampere. 5GW!? That doesn't sound right. Normally according to our bill we use about 500kw/d Not running a steel smelter. Just a very big office with about 50-60 people during the day and about 10 people at night.

Good day all. i am struggling with working out my office consumption. i have a ME435 Energy Analyzer. i wired it in to get the data for about 8 days. now i have more than 11k entries. it logs every minute. my question is im not sure how to work out the load per hour and then per day. i have been trying and struggling in excel. had formulas. used chatGPT but i feel like the data isnt correct what i getting out. if someone can please share some light on how can i get the correct data (per hour, per day) ill share the .csv fileHQdatalog_3P4W.zipHQdatalog_3P4W.zip

Thank you for the helpful insights! The API issue is now sorted — I appreciate you clarifying that. I've also double and triple-checked my cable color coding, even swapping the pairs around, but I’ll definitely give the brown/white-brown combination a shot as suggested. Regarding the R7 resistor, I did remove it from the board and even tested another board with the resistor still in place. I’m guessing if the cabling is incorrect, the resistor probably wouldn’t make a difference either way. So, I’ll focus on testing the other cable next and update you on the results. Thanks again for your help — I really hope this solves it!

Hi everyone, I'm struggling with my ESP32 and TTL-RS485 board setup for integrating my Deye 8kW inverter with Home Assistant. I've followed the "Solar Integration" YouTube video and used the Slipix GitHub setup. While I know there are better integration methods, I've already invested in these boards and spent considerable time and effort, so I really want to get this working. Current Issue: Sensors: All sensors show as offline Control: The control options in Home Assistant show values on the sliders, but they do not actually change anything on the inverter side. Wiring: I believe my wiring is correct and have even changed the GPIO pins multiple times, but no success. What I've Tried: Double-checked the wiring. Swapped GPIO pins on the ESP32. Followed Slipix’s YAML code closely from GitHub. Added a Wi-Fi connectivity test: I've added the # Flash the onboard LED when Wi-Fi is connected to confirm the ESP is connected to Wi-Fi, and it does flash, so the ESP32 is definitely online. Additional Concern: I also don't know how to generate an API encryption key, which is why my API setup is left open (no password). If anyone can guide me on securing it properly, I’d greatly appreciate it. Attachments: Photos of my wiring and boards. YAML code I'm using. I'm sure I'm just missing something small, as I've seen others get this setup working. If anyone has experience with this integration or can spot issues in my setup, I'd really appreciate your help! Thank you in advance for your assistant. inverter-firmware.factory.bin

We use RDC radios for communication on our IDS alarm panels which is off-site. I am hoping there would be a way to integrate RDC with HA to be able to arm/disarm the sites and have alarms coming through. We are currently using watch manager. I searched the internet but found nothing. In my head something so simple, working with RF should be able to be integrated? I'm just not sure how. Is there someone that might have an idea? Thanks

Ok i will definitely try it. I would want to get it sorted tomorrow. So I'll go get what is needed. If you don't mind helping me with the calculations, I want to make sure i have what is needed. Thanks

Thanks. So 5v boards re not going to work?

Thanks @BritishRacingGreen for the info! Much appreciated. I don't see any availability on stock anywhere online and walk in. I found this one online, but i see it says it is 5v. Can this work or should i search for the 3.3v one?

Hi Everyone, I ordered an ESP32 - TTL Board online wanting to integrate ESP with HA. I realized when unpacking it is not the exact same TTL board that @Sc00bsshowed in his video. now I am not sure how to connect the red one, there shouldn't be much difference?

Hi @Sc00bs, thanks again for your input! I am excited! it is working! this is the code that is currently working, alias: Turn on/off kitchen light based on solar power description: Turn on/off kitchen light based on solar power trigger: - platform: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power above: 6000 id: solarman total power for: hours: 0 minutes: 0 seconds: 0 - platform: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power above: -0.6 id: solarman total power for: hours: 0 minutes: 0 seconds: 30 below: 6000 action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power above: 6000 sequence: - service: switch.turn_on entity_id: switch.kitchen_1_light - conditions: - condition: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power below: 6000 sequence: - service: switch.turn_off entity_id: switch.kitchen_1_light it switches on and off!

hi @Sc00bs thanks for the help! i also thought it's not necessary to reload them on CBI, the only thing is I'm not sure how to get the details I need to integrate them, like you showed on the Tuya IOT via the CBI app on the phone. do you have any tips for me? I will be trying the new code now and will update you. thanks again.

this is the card i have for the light. it is working on its own if i switch it on and off, but that is it.

Good morning @Sc00bs sorry for the late reply, thank you for your input. we are monitoring the site as is now to see how we can improve. the site is well under 8000w load at the moment. the pumps aren't connected yet, but I'm sure we can monitor it and use power efficiently. I finally installed home assistant and started working on it yesterday thanks to your videos! i watched the video where you connected the geyser through Tuya app, my geysers are on the CBI app so I'm sure i should reload them onto Tuya app and then i can pull them in into HA. so yesterday i only loaded my smart lights, as i explained in this post i would like to use them for when we are pulling more than a certain amount of power to warn us about potentially pulling max load. I am struggling with the automation part. i am sure i did it correctly but it's not switching on the light when x amount of power is being pulled. would you mind looking at the code? so, I first did it myself through the normal interface and settings as you showed, i just changed the values (not working) then I used ChatGPT to write the code but still it's not triggering. when I press run the light doesn't switch off. I am sure there is something I'm missing. this is ChatGPT code, alias: Turn on/off kitchen light based on solar power description: "" trigger: - platform: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power above: 3500 id: solarman total power action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power above: 3500 sequence: - service: switch.turn_on entity_id: switch.kitchen_1_light - conditions: - condition: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.solarman_total_load_power below: 2500 sequence: - service: switch.turn_off entity_id: switch.kitchen_1_light (values are lower now just for testing purposes) If you have time, would you mind helping out please. Thanks

This is the formula I was taught to use. Hope it helps.

Hi Magneto, thanks for getting back to me, the pressure pump is 7.1A (1.7kw) the diesel pump is 5.1A (1.2kw) and the borehole pump I am not sure but should be about 4.5A (1.1kw) as you will see in the attachment, the office doesn't pull constant high load. it is only when the one geyser is switched on and then someone makes coffee. there are 3 small kitchens meaning 3 kettles and fridges. the geyser is also on a smart breaker that is programmed to come on certain times of the day, and would also be integrated into home assistant to be controlled with too little PV or loadshedding kicking in. so, my plan is to regulate the load. this is when teamwork comes in and everybody should work together. I am going to install smart lights that works with home assistant, so they will be alerted when it is loadshedding to not use as much power as normal. then I would also like to implement lights that home assistant switches on when the load reaches let's say 9kw. so, then they know they should not switch on equipment. (This will be when someone throws in diesel for example.) so, I would like them to keep the load at a minimum. I do understand that you should not over work the inverter, but I'm sure with this "ruling system" we should stay under 10kw (if it spikes higher it should just be for a min or 2) the main concern is that I will not be able to do load balancing to the T, as all the 3 phase items will pull from all 3 phases and then there is the single-phase items that will be split. so is it possible for the inverter to handle different load on different phases.

Good day Our original plan was 1 x 8kw Deye inverter. The office has a few 3 phase pumps (borehole and pressure pumps) so the plan was to convert them to single phase Problem is the office is already close to 8kw load without the pumps on. So we are looking at getting 1 x 12kw 3P Deye, with that we would not need to change the pumps to single phase. My question is what would the max amps be per phase on the 3phase inverter? I see the manual says 18A so i presume it is 18A per phase which equals to 13kw which the inverter can handle. I spoke to a technician from Magneto which states that the hybrid inverter can regulate the load between the 3 phases (1 phase can pull more than 18A) Does anybody have an answer on this? Can i pull let say 30A on the 1 phase and then lower Amps on the other) Otherwise the 12kw would not work as the pumps would pull more than 18A. Thanks in advance. Regards

Thank you guys for the info. really appreciate the help. I will definitely phone cfptegnologies and ask for the best solutions.

Good day, I have a question. Most of our offices has 3 phase incoming power from Eskom Only equipment running on 3 phase are the borehole and the diesel tank. I don't want to install a 3 phase inverter as the whole building is basically single phase. Is there a conversion I can do to convert the 3 phase motor to run on single phase? Thanks in advance.

Thanks @Sc00bs! I'll check it out. Appreciate it

Ok awesome. Would you please keep me in the loop when you are selling them. Thanks

Ok thanks for the heads up. Will look at getting a VPN

Ok I'm sure my IT can assist me. I'm not clued up with that. Hope i come right

Ok makes sense. Thanks again. Will hopefully be on site on Friday to try it out.

Sorry I'm not understanding.. I do have the inverter on solarman business