Robbo

My mate didnt top up for July and August and bought R500 today. He was charged R250 fees plus VAT so R287.50 of charges. So he got 78.2kwh for the remaining R212.50. I havent bought yet but it seems like there is some sort of accumulation of fees unfortunately.

Heres how I read it: You pay R300 They take off the service fee which is R150 + R22.50 (VAT at 15%) = R172.50 Now you have R300 - R172.50 = R127.50 left to purchase electricity. Rate per kwh is (as you have above) R2.3634 + VAT. So R2.7179/kwh incl VAT Now R127.50 divided by the R2.7179 = 46.91kwh which agrees to what you got.

Yes please!

That is true, and I get your point now. Maybe I'll give it another month and put in R100 in September and see what happens. In theory then you should buy more in 1 month to avoid the fixed fees for the months to come, up until the units get more expensive. Will report back

I agree with you, but the sabc had reported it wouldnt accumulate on a page that has now been taken down, so hoping for a miracle On statements, are you thinking it will be on your municipal bill even though its prepaid?

Hi guys Has anyone not topped up their prepaid in July and now topped up in August? Conflicting reports about whether the R230 accumulates or not, so would be great to get practical confirmation. I normally only buy 500kwh a year so did that in June, but want to plan if this fee is building up in the background.

NIce! where did you buy it?

I currently use this: https://youtu.be/AK5E2T5tWyM But if I could get a free website I would transition to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAwT9N-7Hw Or if you dont mind paying something use NabuCasa which is the official one.

Yeah, I used 9.7kwh from the grid in all of September and have now used more than that in the last 2 days. It always gets me thinking if COJ starts charging a connection fee for prepaid, how big a gennie I will need to add for these cloudy periods...

Thanks! Just strange that the Watts work. All other sensors in the MQQT are unavailable. Looking at the config YAML there is this: SCHEDULES: - KEY: w READ_EVERY: 5 REPORT_EVERY: 60 CHANGE_ANY: false CHANGE_BY: 80 CHANGE_PERCENT: 0 Is that correct or should it be done for each key? Otherwise will raise in github as you suggest EDIT: would you mind sharing a template YAML? I cant find it on your page.

Hi @kellerza, in the latest update, is there any reason I would lose some of the sensors? All the kWh, Amp and volt ones are gone, grid hz and battery SOC also gone. But all the Watt ones are still working. I thought it was because I had :now next to some sensors in the YAML but I removed all those and still not working. Saw a few errors in the logs and cleared all of those as well where _power changed to _energy. Any pointers?

I bought a Intel NUC off facebook marketplace, nothing special, a celeron with 4gig ram for R1000. Then bought a new 128gig SSD for it. Runs HAOS perfectly and far more powerful than a rpi.

Awesome card @slipx! Would you mind posting your YAML for this card to set inverter values?

Its a different lab from the one I used so not sure what the conclusion on it is. And can't seem to find the HCO3- (bicarbonate) value to plug into the link I posted. Hopefully the installer or someone here can help more

Not sure on your pump, but I do it on mine