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@cp2023 thank-you so much for forking the great work originally done by Gary. I have so many automations that rely on SOC and PV. Mine is now working after deploying your updated NR and also needed to redo most of the configuration, but entities are 95% there, will iron out the rest soon hopefully. Ultimately, I need to connect directly as it seems Sunsynk want to keep giving us breaking changes. Thanks again.

Thanks Gary, success again after changing those three lines. Many thanks, and hope you manage to continue this project which has added so much value to our home automations.

Hi Markus, yip, you are correct. I climbed into the roof and replaced the extension by simply splicing in a 5m length of 1mm Cabtyre (I had no network cable around). Voila, it works perfectly in that location. To confirm my suspicions, I took the "dodgy" sensor cable to another THR on opposite end of home and subject to more interference, and it did exactly the same (cutting between 31-36 deg). If I remove the OEM extension the sensor works perfectly on it's 0.5m cable. It is beyond logic that the OEM extension cable caused specific range failures on 3 out of 3 extension cables, but that is what I have found. I do not suggest anyone buy these RL560 5m extenders, if they want to use full range of sensor. My suspicion is the wire is too thin (thinner than sensor cable) and/or subject to interference. Thanks again Markus, hope Sonoff upgrade this RL560 product and remove existing stocks.

Hi there, has anyone conclusively found a solution to this issue. I have a situation where my sensor goes blank "----" (unknown in Home Assistant) with 100% consistently between 31-36 deg. I have used good UTP wire (upsized to reduce any resistance), and soldered all joints. Got the same results with both the original Sonoff 5m extension as my own cables. If it is likely that interference is the issue and STP is the solution, I climb up in roof and redo, but was so frustrated, I was looking at replacing with Shelley+Temp Add-On. If it was interference I would expect the failure to happen randomly, not always within the same temperature range. I have found this on two separate THR316D and sensors. If used with original short cable this problem was not detected. Would really appreciate any advice/input.

Hi @Gary Waterworth just to let you know the updated git files worked fine, and I am now pulling the data into HA 100%. Lots of work to do to get all the sensors/templates and dashboards going, but will get through that. Haven't braved the automation yet, but very keen to get into that. Thanks again for all your effort and sharing thereof. Big Kudos.

Hi @Gary Waterworth, so excited to find your solution. I am relatively new to HA, but loving it and especially the collaboration. I too am ultimately wanting to edit Sunsynk settings if SOC is low and load-shedding is coming soon. Again, thank-you for your work to date. I have followed the steps best I can, and the entities are appearing, but sensors show "unavailable". When looking at Developer Tools, States most of the sensor.sunsynk....... are unavailable, except the plant list, which returns correct info. The sensor.sunsynk_flow is returning data in the attributes. Is this to be expected, and one must create new sensors using templates? Possibly the issue described below is stopping data-flow. On the Node-Red Debug notes the script seems to generally be running, but getting stuck on Inverter Serial Number.

Hi @Sonoff Africa, I would be very interested in edge Sonoff devices. I am trying to stick with a Sonoff ecosystem, but starting to look at HA, as I need a few scenes to run during LS, and sadly many of our ISP's fail during heavy LS. If I understand you correctly and you have edge devices that could talk to each other in LAN mode, that would be a massive breakthrough. I would be very interested in providing feedback etc. if these are still in Beta stage.

Hi there, I'm about to start with Home Assistant, primarily using Sonoff/Ewelink LAN, but super-keen to integrate with Sunsynk using @Bloubul7template. Can the Sunsynk integration work on Home Assistant OS, or does one need to use the complete PiOS and run HA in a container. Excuse terminology, I'm just getting into this.

When Sunsynk got back to me with my queries on Aux circuit, they pointed me to the Deye videos, while system menus look a little different, the video on Aux answers a few questions. Unfortunately not on Micro Inverters though. https://www.deyeinverter.com/video/

@Tariq, Yes, hunting neutrals can be interesting, glad my info helped you. I will try to wire all my NE loads to this circuit in anticipation of load shedding in winter. Such an amazing system. I really put it through it's paces today, and was super impressed.

Summary of findings/testing of Sunsynk 8.8kW using Aux Circuit for load shedding. I put together the attached doc to save future buyers like me having to spend so long in finding out what should be explained in user manual, as well as installer manual. Thanks @Achmat and @Johann1982 for your assistance and patience. Hope this is of assistance. Sunsynk Aux Circuit.pdf

Thanks again Achmat.

Hi Achmat, your Edit confuses me. If you talking about during load shedding, I was told this NE circuit will not give any power? If Grid available it is limited by max pass through (less any current through UPS+Aux.) If I understand your comment properly you are saying UPS circuit can provide more than the inverter capacity if grid is available? I am getting more and more frustrated that Sunsynk cannot provide conclusive clarity on this topic of maximum capacities if grid available or not.

Hi Achmat, thanks again for all your info. I am planning to move all my NE circuits to Aux so that the load can be managed depending on solar/SoC available. Deducing from your and other comments would you agree with the following summary. I am really dissapointed Sunsynk cannot explain this functionality, which I think is one of the main selling points of this inverter. Failing a propper answer, I suppose the only way is to connect something and see how it behaves under different conditions.

Hi Achmat, still cant fathom why Sunsynk will not explain how this works. So during load shed if the solar is set to 2kw and aux demand exceeds tbis will it get balance from batt (until SoC li.it reached). Query is, can we use this aux output at night off battery?