Thanks for the video. Another alternative is to use two different networks. I successfully set this up by connecting the ethernet to my home network and the WiFi in my RaspberryPI to the PVS6 network. They use different IP spaces.
Agreed. However, most ways I've seen online involve opening the PVS6 and hardwiring a device. Just wanted to share that there is no need to wire anything directly to the PVS6. The PVS6 exposes a WiFi network and HA can pull the data as long as your hardware hosting HA is connected to it. In my case, HA uses WiFi to pull data from the PVS6 and ethernet to connect to my home network.
@@MissingRemote The PVS6 exposes a network. Both the SSID and password are formulaic and all you need is the serial number of the PVS6. The S/N is in the chassis and front cover of the PVS6. It can also be found in the shipping box and in my case a card the installer left. There's a PDF online that explains it. Take the following S/N as an example: ZT190585000549A6185 123456 4321 The SSID is SunPower immediately followed by characters five and six of the PVS6 S/N; immediately followed by the last three digits: SunPower05185 The password is characters three through six of the PVS6 S/N; immediately followed by the last four digits: 19056185
I'm looking into sun power solar. I'll be wanting to integrate it into HAS, and I have unifi already. So this fits my niche scenario perfectly lol. Thanks for the video. How have you liked the sun power system?
Overall, I've been really happy with the Sun Power system. It has delivered exactly what the installer projected. My only complaints were that I couldn't see panel level data or use the data in other systems. Which is now a solved problem :).
I’m trying to work on this now and it seems like you can only pull in the kWh values and not the current kW values for production, sending back to the grid or pulling from the grid. Any idea if you can pull in current kW?
It's been a while since I looked at it. Best bet is to look at the JSON returned from the SunPower system. If the kW is there, it should be possible to get it.
I just got my sunpower system up yesterday and using your guide my consumption bars start going negative as soon as I start producing solar power. Looking at the lifetime power for consumption, the value from the sensor does indeed go negative. It's possible something has changed with the integration since you did your video. What I am now doing is using khw to home for consumption, kwh to grid for the return to grid portion and lifetime power production for solar production. This has the added benefit of showing me how much of my solar generation I'm actually consuming, that guage is registering 0 in your video. I'm curious if you've also needed to alter your setup.
There are different ways to configure the installation depending on where they put the clamps. I didn't think about that until you mentioned it. I wonder if that might be part of what's going on. I don't think I've had to reconfigure anything.
I'm trying to figure out how to best display this. I have a PVS5. The production meter doesn't bring anything in (missing clamp). I add up all the inverters lifetime_power to get the total lifetime_power for production. My graph looks like yours where consumption goes negative when we're returning to the grid, which looks odd for consumption. Can't figure out how to property display values. I don't have "Kwh to Grid" or Kwh to Home" :(
It matches what I see in the SunPower app (you can see the comparison here -> th-cam.com/video/snsuRhZ1OK4/w-d-xo.html), which is as good as it can get. Lifetime power tells us how much power has been generated or consumed in total, HA can fill in the buckets by subtracting lifetime power @ 11am from lifetime power @ 12 pm to get the amount consumed (or generated) in that hour.
Thank you
Thanks for the video. Another alternative is to use two different networks. I successfully set this up by connecting the ethernet to my home network and the WiFi in my RaspberryPI to the PVS6 network. They use different IP spaces.
Few ways to skin that cat. If I didn't have POE already in that space and a spare managed switch I might have used a rpi too.
Agreed. However, most ways I've seen online involve opening the PVS6 and hardwiring a device. Just wanted to share that there is no need to wire anything directly to the PVS6. The PVS6 exposes a WiFi network and HA can pull the data as long as your hardware hosting HA is connected to it. In my case, HA uses WiFi to pull data from the PVS6 and ethernet to connect to my home network.
@@user-ul8qu4td6o How did you connect to the AP on the PVS6?
@@MissingRemote The PVS6 exposes a network. Both the SSID and password are formulaic and all you need is the serial number of the PVS6. The S/N is in the chassis and front cover of the PVS6. It can also be found in the shipping box and in my case a card the installer left.
There's a PDF online that explains it. Take the following S/N as an example:
ZT190585000549A6185
123456 4321
The SSID is SunPower immediately followed by characters five and six of the PVS6 S/N; immediately followed by the last three digits: SunPower05185
The password is characters three through six of the PVS6 S/N; immediately followed by the last four digits: 19056185
I'm looking into sun power solar. I'll be wanting to integrate it into HAS, and I have unifi already. So this fits my niche scenario perfectly lol. Thanks for the video. How have you liked the sun power system?
Overall, I've been really happy with the Sun Power system. It has delivered exactly what the installer projected. My only complaints were that I couldn't see panel level data or use the data in other systems. Which is now a solved problem :).
I’m trying to work on this now and it seems like you can only pull in the kWh values and not the current kW values for production, sending back to the grid or pulling from the grid. Any idea if you can pull in current kW?
It's been a while since I looked at it. Best bet is to look at the JSON returned from the SunPower system. If the kW is there, it should be possible to get it.
I just got my sunpower system up yesterday and using your guide my consumption bars start going negative as soon as I start producing solar power. Looking at the lifetime power for consumption, the value from the sensor does indeed go negative. It's possible something has changed with the integration since you did your video.
What I am now doing is using khw to home for consumption, kwh to grid for the return to grid portion and lifetime power production for solar production. This has the added benefit of showing me how much of my solar generation I'm actually consuming, that guage is registering 0 in your video.
I'm curious if you've also needed to alter your setup.
There are different ways to configure the installation depending on where they put the clamps. I didn't think about that until you mentioned it. I wonder if that might be part of what's going on. I don't think I've had to reconfigure anything.
I'm trying to figure out how to best display this. I have a PVS5. The production meter doesn't bring anything in (missing clamp). I add up all the inverters lifetime_power to get the total lifetime_power for production. My graph looks like yours where consumption goes negative when we're returning to the grid, which looks odd for consumption. Can't figure out how to property display values. I don't have "Kwh to Grid" or Kwh to Home" :(
I'm not seeing Sunpower in Hacs currently. Anything change since you did this?
Follow the directions here: github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower.
How well does the lifetime power measurement you see in the power consumed match up to your house's meter? I'm a bit baffled how this actually works.
It matches what I see in the SunPower app (you can see the comparison here -> th-cam.com/video/snsuRhZ1OK4/w-d-xo.html), which is as good as it can get.
Lifetime power tells us how much power has been generated or consumed in total, HA can fill in the buckets by subtracting lifetime power @ 11am from lifetime power @ 12 pm to get the amount consumed (or generated) in that hour.