After getting fed up not being alerted when I start to give away my power to the grid, I've finally got a quick solution to this.  I just use Selenium to scrape my Sunsynk.net account and send off emails when I'm approaching 100% SOC / about to start exporting.

Am I missing something - is there an easier way / is there an API I should be using for this kind of thing? (IFTTT type thing)

I notice another thread "sunsynk monitoring" that looks a bit beyond my pay grade as a little domestic user. I was just checking that there is nothing official or obvious I'm missing regarding notifications? Notifications seem such a basic critical feature to be completely missing from the Sunsynk offering.

 

 

 

 

SolarAssistant has an MQTT Broker you can query and respond to using automations,not sure what Sunsynk offers

7 hours ago, tsf said:

After getting fed up not being alerted when I start to give away my power to the grid, I've finally got a quick solution to this.  I just use Selenium to scrape my Sunsynk.net account and send off emails when I'm approaching 100% SOC / about to start exporting.

Am I missing something - is there an easier way / is there an API I should be using for this kind of thing? (IFTTT type thing)

I notice another thread "sunsynk monitoring" that looks a bit beyond my pay grade as a little domestic user. I was just checking that there is nothing official or obvious I'm missing regarding notifications? Notifications seem such a basic critical feature to be completely missing from the Sunsynk offering.

If you don't want to give away electricity, then configure Zero Export:

 

According to https://solar-assistant.io/help/updates/changelog there will be

Coming soon:

• Configurable alerts/email notifications (expected December 2022).
• Rework of power management to allow more possibilities (expected November 2022).

You can also integrate Solar Assistant with Home Assistant and send messages that way.


>I notice another thread "sunsynk monitoring" that looks a bit beyond my pay grade as a little domestic user
If you doing selenium stuff, you should be OK - see the https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk

18 hours ago, system32 said:

If you don't want to give away electricity, then configure Zero Export:

Thanks for the info. We are OK to always export here; I'd just prefer to put the extra power to better use (EV, appliances). I don't have an export contract, but even if I did, I think we'd only get 10% of the retail cost per kwh. So unless I'm missing something, neither export nor zero export help me get an ROI.

We have some suppliers here in the UK offering half-hour market-price tariffs via an API (or at least we did before our energy crisis). And separately, as a result of the crisis, we may also be offered load shedding incentives in the evenings. So if/when this happens it would probably be time to improve my automation position, with respect to grid-charging my batteries when receiving notification of good prices / shedding schedules.

I've taken another look at kellerza and it still feels a magnitude more complex than I am comfortable with, at this early stage of my journey. I suppose it's typical for us techies to just stick with the tech we are familiar with.  In theory I could just have another selenium script charge my batteries when I detect good prices (even negative prices) from the API. So that could be a next step for me.