October 16, 20232 yr Hi, I have decided sa would be a good addition to my system. I would be buying the software only. I have a pi3a around that is not used, and am concerned about it having only one usb port. My battery and inverter communication is good so this setup would be fine. I would like to find out what the benefits are when connecting the battery to the pi? If the benefits are good I'll swap around pi's to use a 3b instead. Thank you
November 5, 20232 yr Hi @mbzn Why not just run Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi with an integration?
November 6, 20232 yr On 2023/11/05 at 6:11 PM, Sc00bs said: Hi @mbzn Why not just run Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi with an integration? That's a lot more complex than running Solar Assistant.
November 6, 20232 yr In what way @CyberJoe? Install of Home Assistant is dead easy. Most of the integrations are a piece of cake nowadays, depends on what inverter @mbzn has though
November 12, 20232 yr On 2023/11/06 at 7:36 PM, Sc00bs said: In what way @CyberJoe? Install of Home Assistant is dead easy. Most of the integrations are a piece of cake nowadays, depends on what inverter @mbzn has though Solar Assistant, one cable to plug in and it works. Home Assistant, well, install, configure, setup etc. This can a bit daunting for a non technical user.
November 12, 20232 yr On 2023/10/16 at 7:21 AM, mbzn said: Hi, I have decided sa would be a good addition to my system. I would be buying the software only. I have a pi3a around that is not used, and am concerned about it having only one usb port. My battery and inverter communication is good so this setup would be fine. I would like to find out what the benefits are when connecting the battery to the pi? If the benefits are good I'll swap around pi's to use a 3b instead. Thank you I run SA on a piZero W. Connected a usb hub to allow for multiple USB ports.
November 27, 20232 yr I used RPI3b for SA and found the Web GUI to be a bit slow. The slowness does not affect SA-mqtt integration. Recently upgraded to RPI4 and the WEB GUI much better. Good news is that RPi4 is now back in stock.
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