How to integrate your Solar Inverter into Home Assistant. First step to Solar Storage Automation.

Hi Andy. I'm new to Home Assistant and have now a RPi4 + raspbee II with HAOS installed and running. I would like to integrate my Victron system thru Cerbo GX into HA. In your video you introduced it can be done easily and will come in a other video. I'm so curies to see how this can be done without coding. Im a big fan of this community and your excellent video's!

Heya, that looks like a very nice app would like to see more of this app

Good i use yaml configuration very simple solution

This video surprised me. I thought your Victron stuff was already integrated into Home Assistant.

I would really like to know how you connected Victron device to home assistant using the HACs integration because it asks you for the Advertisement key I have spent hours trying to find any simple instructions on how to get it. I bought a Victron Smart battery sense just to get my battery bank voltage on Home Assistant

Glad I found this one thank you 🙏 I’m guessing you can use the cerbo gx instead of the pi but the same process

Hi Andy, do you already know when you produce a video how to connect Home Assistant to Victron devices? Cheers, Gerd

You are now my fount of all knowledge! Well, you for solar and @joshuabardwell for drones!

Excited about the upcoming video on Victron installation in HA

As always, very entertaining and informative, if only we had you as a teacher we might have learnt something at school....

Thanks Andy! Waiting for the Victron integration info

Moar Home Assistant please 😅

Seems you could do with a defused sheet of plastic a few feet above solar array...plan? Spreads the solar rays about more than just direct light onto half/two-thirds of array'. (plastic they use in polytunnels)

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have you used solar to make hotwater?

u got old but not accepting it 😊😊😊

Hey Andy how do you make more power in clouds than pure sunlight? That is just very strange to me incredible though but just very odd. One would think direct sunlight would create more power and clouds would decrease power. Anyway you could make a video to explain this? For idiots like me lol😂

You open a can of worms with Hassio, did right with the energy side of things. One day you have to show how to put the inverter info in the energy dashboard and since you have them, devices to monitor individual energy. I bought an esp but use batmon works with more than one bms and no coding, you will loose the connection to them for mobile app but in my case makes no difference since I manage everything in hassio, victron connect still allow to see the battery voltage, A, SOC, etc . If JK Bms gives an error turning it off and on allow to be discover again, smart shunt works every time. Now will wait one more week for the BMS review.

Thanks a bunch for this Andy! Much appreciated. I have individual MPPT (dumb) boost converters for each solar panel,. I'd like to monitor each panel's performance. After seeing this vid, I'll be looking for some sort of clip-on or thru-hole DC current sensor that Home Assistant can talk too.

Hi Andy, great that you also show how to use the home assistant. I have installed this on a raspi while waiting to see how you will implement the Victron installation. You are my great inspiration.
Thank you Andy for your videos and the effort you put into them. I look forward to your next video.
regards

Great video!

don't forget to add my HA integration for solar prediction in the graph ha-solcast-solar :)

Andy you will love the tailscale plugin, you will be able to monitor everything on home assistant (and other devices) without any complex setups, it just works. I even have a widget on my phone that shows me the power produced and the battery percentage. Yes, i know, feeding the addiction!

Thanks Andy

Thank you very much for the video, really helpful and unique information

This will be a great video series Andy, looking forward to the dashboard integration at the end.

HA is so great, but if I use Modbus TCP for Victron I didn't get entities about Critical loads on AC out1.
Maybe you can help to get all informations on the Energy-Dashboard

Wow, beautiful forward thinking Andy!
And so relatively easy explained, without coding. Which will suit most people very nicely.
I do wonder, if you don't mind me asking, if you have been a teacher (or of some sort) in a previous life?
The ease how you explain it, I guess with some off-camera preparations and decisions what to tell etc, is really impressive;
Not too complicated and also not too much details but plenty of information to get one thinking about also considering going down that route.
I really look forward to this series, thanks!

One of the first loads I automated was the pool pump. By using the sunrise and sunset parameters (with offsets) it will automatically adjust the pump's run time with the season. I used to also make further adjustment to pump start time based on availability of excess solar PV but it's not really necessary with the automatic time of day adjustment.

I also have HA automations looking after if/when to use supplemental charging of the off-grid battery with excess grid-PV. Needs it at this time of year because my off-grid PV array is small (2.2 kW) while the grid array is 11 kW.

As for using the Growatt (I don't use one) and many other inverters which are based on similar architecture as the Voltronic family of inverters (hundreds of them), an alternative which does not require using Growatt's off-shore servers but keeping it all local is to use Solar Assistant (requires a dedicated RPi). Solar Assistant is a bit like the Cerbo is for Victron kit. Then integrate the Solar Assistant with Home Assistant (using the MQTT integration). It works really well and is how my off-grid inverter is integrated with my HA. It's also very fast with second by second live data. SA also integrates the data from my Victron smart shunt.

Thanks again! It is really essential to have a central data collector and handler. I am using ioBroker and it serves my Gen24 directly and the Fronius web cloud as well, Fronius Wattpilot, BYD, Shelly, Zigbee, utility meter and much more.
Did you get a direct access to the Gen24 PV string power?

Yes! I just wait to learn about Home Asistant explain simple in Andy style.

Hey Andy. I am curious if you are getting 4kw during overcast winter weather, do you generate anything on a clear night with a full moon?

So you don’t think there is any possibility that the power you are generating is diverted to AI and used against you? You are getting into dangerous territory.

Where is the damn snow considering you call it WINTER. No winter without snow.

second video useful in 2023 after victron ess

Hello, I'm from Brazil and I've been watching your videos for a long time and I really like your content. I have an Off-Grid system in my house and I really wanted to make a system that could manage all of this, but in my case I only have Chinese inverters without connection to any type of platform I am looking for a solution that can monitor these parameters so that integration with Home Assistant or another manager is possible, does this type of tool already exist? Due to your knowledge, you could do something like that and show it to us on your channel, it would be very useful for many technology and solar system aficionados.

come on andy be adventurist give node red a run you might be surprised

Andy you will love using the Shelly UNI using the ADC along with a 0-10v water probe, as I use them for my water tank levels that's if you are on tank water

why not go to 3 places past the dot for the AC current like you do for cell voltage

Hi Andy. Thank you for making a Home assistant integration series.

Venus OS is a mix of open source and closed source binary blobs from Victron. If something doesn't function good luck getting support from anywhere to fix it. Stay away.

Congratulations on this new video series! This looks like a really nice thing.
I must say that your face sometimes expressed a bit of panic when you emphasized 'no scripting and no coding' 😅 ... But nothing but admiration for your efforts .👍 Keep it up!

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If I get my Internet backup, too, I will add the systems together.

I remember using node red five years ago, which was pretty hard at first. Home assistant is easier nowadays. Rain, 40 mm, did something strange to the system, or was it just the bms I need to replace.

Hey Spatman, dont underestimate your audience.... bring out the Node-Red.

Hi Andy, thanks for all your videos.
Please remember when setting up static IP directly in a network device and not reserve an IP for that MAC address in your router. When using the first option there is a possibility that router assign that address to a different device this can happen when one or several devices are reset in you network. So, in my opinion always use reserve IP for that specific MAC address in your router.

Congratulations Andy the system fronius and victron is very good working

What a good video about home assistant. Keep up the good work!! But please use the standard automations instead of node red. The standard automation options have the future of home assistant and can be shared with blueprints for the greater good.