October 15, 20223 yr Hi all, I’m in the process of building some software for inverters, the end goal is to support multiple inverter types and batteries. I have some great ideas of my own but wanted to get some perspective from the peeps in here that already have solar setups, and wanted to see what your pain points are and if you could build some cool software, what features would you add?
October 16, 20223 yr Settings changes based on particular parameters/time Daily schedules EskomSePush integration to change settings
October 16, 20223 yr Integration of weather forecasts predicting solar generation for the upcoming few days. Integrating Time-of-Use time slots and tariffs to determine best strategies for importing and exporting power to and from the grid. Time-of-Use must account for weekends, public holidays, summer and winter tariffs and time periods, must be programmable to take any future municipal/Eskom changes in time slots. Must allow for easy differentiation between exporting solar power directly, versus exporting battery power. Simplified monitoring screen for secondary users, wife & kids & non-technically-minded, showing fewer graphs and units, maybe more focused on pictorials with smiling suns, sad clouds, and charging batteries.
October 16, 20223 yr Why not just write a home assistant integration for the inverters you have in mind? I'm pretty sure just about all the above requested features are supported in some way with already existing integrations.
October 19, 20223 yr Make it an open source project so others can assist. Alerting/email on events - eg Grid fail, Grid Restored, Battery Low, Battery Full. Access to sensor readings via mqtt - allows for integration into HomeAssistant / Nodered. Access to database so I can connect Grafana and develop my own dashboards.
October 19, 20223 yr On 2022/10/15 at 9:54 PM, kylebotha said: Hi all, I’m in the process of building some software for inverters, the end goal is to support multiple inverter types and batteries. I have some great ideas of my own but wanted to get some perspective from the peeps in here that already have solar setups, and wanted to see what your pain points are and if you could build some cool software, what features would you add? Two Factor Authentication security by default on access Inverters and batteries before one can be able to change any parameters... there's always a lot of hackers about. Also interested in having multiple softwares being able to work either with IOS, Google, Android, MacOS as we all have various devices that use different APKs.
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