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Can I use Predbat to plan/predict my potential savings? I am wanting to get Solar & Battery installed but I want to get a good idea on the ROI before I get serious about it. It would be great if I could simulate it?

Do I need GivTCP for a victron that is already talking with HA and has all the sensors and entities OK?

You should add some tags to your videos to make them easier to find on youtube. For starters you could ask ChatGPT to get quick tags: Battery Automation Inverter Types Solar Inverters Battery Management Systems Renewable Energy Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries Off-grid Systems Grid-tied Inverters Hybrid Inverters Smart Energy Solutions Power Management Home Energy Storage Clean Energy Technology Sustainable Power Solutions

How did you get it to find nest devices?? Have have some cameras id like to get in there as the firealarm thingy.

Thanks for posting the video. I have a question for you. I have a bluetti home battery AC500 and smart plug and I am planning to install solar panels soon. In the meantime, I'd like to optimize charging the battery from the grid at the lowest available rates (octopus agile), either during the cheap overnight tariffs or possibly during low-cost daytime slots. My electricity rates drop significantly when it's windy, sometimes even going negative, meaning I get paid to use electricity. The rates are updated every half-hour, and I can access next day's pricing in advance. However, if my battery already holds enough charge to last through the next day and the prices are high, I don't want it to charge unnecessarily. I'd like to automate the charging process to ensure it's as economical as possible. I hope this makes sense.

Finally, a solution to my getting started confusion.

Found all the mistakes you made very instructful, gave a good grounding in navigating around Home Assistant. Thank you

Super tuto. Merci

Super useful video, my predbat doesn't seem to be spitting out the example charging curve into the logs, any reason why that would be?

i whould been appriciatede if you showede it a bit better, its a bit confusing to follow along on this one??

Really helpful, thanks Trefor! Working a treat ready for a free energy session tomorrow at 1pm.

Thanks so much for sharing this. Is a raspberry pi the best device to install all of this?

I'm planning my migration from the appdaemon version to the addon, is it as simple as copying the apps.yaml from one instance to another, or should I be factoring in more time to clear out the existing application and entities before cutting over?

Really helpful. Thank you.

Great Video Trefor, Have you had any of the beta fast response firmwares for the gen 1 yet? If so, has your charging curve altered because of it? I've seen a large increase in my discharge rate up to approximately 2.7kwh.

how to add charging slots - when not on IOG. I am on Agile import - so could you advise how should I add the slots for Predbat Slot ON

Can predbat run the battery in a way that is simultaneously charging from solar and discharging to the grid??

Hi Trefor. I have installed the solcast template in predbat and the solcast integration but I'm not seeing any solar forecasts in the Solar Forecast chart, only actual solar. I notice in your video that you have a section with PV Today and PV Tomorrow. I don't see these on my control panel. Is it because I'm still running in Monitor mode? Thanks.

Nice, your video helped to find File Editor ...

Hi, via Gary I came to your channel. I just installed the Appdaemon-Predbat combined install, and then I got lost because there is no addon_configs folder, nor an apps.yaml file. Was I supposed to create that (blank) before installing, or should it have come with home assistant?

Hello, For me the mqtt configuration discovery isn't showing. I don't get any device as in your video from 7.49 minute. Could you give a direction how to resolve this? As I am not getting now any device and sensors

I cant figure out how to setup the config. Its not automatically created so I added it myself but after a restart the entity is not showing.

Hi Trefor, Please whats the status of support for other Inverters, specifically Solis hybrid's? Thx Andy

Thanks Trefor, useful run-through of what the predbat add on is. Is there still a plan to make predbat into a HA integration, or are you going to stick with it being an add on? Also I think you alluded in the release notes that in time predbat within appdaemon will be retired? I run another appdaemon app Octoblock to calculate the cheapest agile slots for the dishwasher etc so personally I'd keep with appdaemon as otherwise I'll be running an extra add on docker image. For others that only run predbat it wouldn't make much difference

is there an easy way to take the pv_today data and plot it as forecast data on the default energy dashboard in HA?

Thanks Trefor, integrating solcast into predbat should make it easier for new users. As an alternative to solcast, I had a quick look at the open source open-metro integration and the forecast.solar integration. At the moment both of these only support a single set of panel orientations and as I have panels on both sides of my roof I need a forecast for both arrays which solcast supports (although it does consume 2 API calls to retrieve the two data sets) so I think I'll need to stick with solcast.

Ive put this install off. Each step I get a different error . currently I don't have a predbat_dashboard.yaml Im also getting some errors in the add on log that I do not understand./ hmm

This is really helpful and now makes much more sense! Well done Trefor.

I've set this up on my own system through your video guides and the documentation. Absolutely mind-blowing work. Dropped you a small token of appreciation via PP as I have nothing to contribute technically :)

Could I use the history data of the energy dashboard for this? Im trying to estimate a yearly kwh consumption for gas and electricity

I have installed but I dont see any predbat_dashboard.yaml file in the home assistant directory

How can you install a previous release?

The ability to manually select freeze charge and freeze discharge is useful, thanks Trefor, but at the moment Predbat is doing a great job without me needing to change anything! One minor thing, if you have the new ‘fast response’ firmware for the Gen 1 inverters (D0.191-A0.193) and turn off the ‘is it old firmware’ toggle in GivTCP then you get all the new capabilities that the Gen 2, 3’s & AIO’s have - battery pause mode, pause start time and pause end time - as well as local control mode and PV input mode. This Gen 1 firmware is available on request from GivEnergy support but your inverter needs to be manufactured after week 10 2022

Hi Trefor, Predbat dashboard isn't under HA in File editor anymore, do you know where it is?

Is there a way to integrate import Agile Tariffs in PredBat?

is it possible that you could help me out with appdaemon issues ??

Followed video unfotunately cannot annot see predbat.dashboard.yaml witihin the homeassistant folder

Ive set this up but wondered if any had thought of using it with anything else, such as Solar PV Forecasts? I'm finding that my Solcast forecast I use with Predbat is normally quite close to actual except when its cloudy, and I wondered if the weather forecast, previous and future, could be combined with PV history and Solcast History to better adjust the Solcat Forecast somehow?

The advantage of this approach is I suppose lighter weight footprint on Home Assistant (don’t need the GivTCP and Mosquitto add-on’s) but with the disadvantage of it being a cloud connection so reliant on inverter to GivEnergy cloud and back down again, and only 5 minute data update frequency which is all that the inverters push to the GivEnergy cloud

Great work Trefor, an impressive amount of development going into Predbat 👏

Can you share your yaml for the collapsible card please? I get that it’s got to be my inverter number. Could quite read it in the video.

Great to see NeuralProphet starting to be used! How did you get around the issue with PyTorch not running on Alpine - does it run in a separate container?

This is really useful- thanks for taking the time to do it. Just summoning up courage for the hardware build necessary to run this on my Solis inverter!

Great videos! I'm looking into installing this for my setup. I am wondering the following though; I am from the Netherlands, so we don't have Octopus here. We do have Dynamic, hourly tariffs however. Is there a way to use this integration with constant fluctuating tariffs? Cause as far as I read now, it only either works by manually adding the tariffs (which isn't an option with those changing hourly) or with Octopus. Hope you can clarify before I dive into this integration, only to find out it's not suitable for my situation. Thanks!

Is there a way of applying an override to a specific day each week without manually editing the config each week? This is to support British gas peaksave sundays where electricity is half price every sunday between 11:00 and 16:00.

Thanks for these videos and all the work you have done on Predbat. It is really appreciated. I am still only using it in Monitor made ATM, but about to dip my toe in the water! I do have a question about best rates to import and export at. Unless I have missed them the rate for best import (shown as 30p in your video) is not changeable anywhere as for me that is way too high and 95% of my slots show as being best for importing. WOuld it be possible for a variable to be introduced that we can change. Apologies if ti is there, but I haven't been able to find it. I would like to set it to around 20p ATM and with the price reductions coming potentially lower - this would apply to the export rates as well. TIA

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Thanks - Got me up and running !

hello. i really like your setup and predbat as whole. are you able to share fronted hass setup? thank you

hello. I am using predbat and it is great tool. are you able to share fronted home assistant setup somewhere? thanks in advance.