[RELEASE] Solaredge Monitoring Device Driver

sburke781 · September 24, 2020, 7:57am

I had a battery added recently to my setup, do you know if you can get any extra readings out for the battery as part of the SolarEdge API? I'm happy to take a look if you want....

Simon

ericb410 · September 26, 2020, 5:19pm

Is there anyway to get this tile to show up on sharptools?

funzie · September 26, 2020, 5:36pm

If I remember when reading the documentation the battery value was returned, but I've got to double check.

funzie · September 26, 2020, 5:37pm

I'm not familiar with Sharptools.

josh · September 28, 2020, 2:48am

You could add capability "Sensor" into the metadata section of the driver and then you can authorize it manually as noted here:

martine · October 23, 2020, 9:18pm

Funzie:

Awesome work. It just connected and worked as soon as I had the API key figured. And this driver/device announcement was your first post to the forum! It has to be the best first post ever.
About a month ago, sburke inquired about supporting batteries. I've checked the docs and the currentPowerFlow does return bunches of info on the battery if one is installed and enabled.
Do you have any objections to me starting with your driver and adding that support? You could then integrate the change back into your repo.
Martin.

funzie · October 23, 2020, 10:37pm

None at all, go ahead. Truth is I haven't had the time to work on the requests and won't for at least another two or three weeks.

sburke781 · October 24, 2020, 2:44am

Hi @martine,

I would love it if you could get the battery outputs going, thanks for offering to take a look. One thing that I think may happen in the solar edge app, i.e. the one they they release for mobiles / tablets, but I have not confirmed this is it may double count charging of the battery and discharging the battery as "system production". If you notice any figures that may divide this up or you can disprove my theory that would be great. I'm also happy to test this and any updates you make more generally.

Thanks again,
Simon

kipa · November 23, 2020, 6:09pm

Curious if I am missing something or if my system simply does not support the power flow data. I don't get anything but zeros for the in and out. Only my production data appears.

I've got a SE3800H.

Anybody else having the same issue?

funzie · November 23, 2020, 6:40pm

You need to have some type of energy metering module. Either a WattNode or Solaredge's version of the WattNode. That is what measures the import/export. The inverter itself only knows what it produces.

karnik.abhijeet · December 31, 2020, 4:47am

For the last two or three days, the driver is not reporting cumulative production and consumption for me. Was working well for months.

I'm still getting current production and consumption. Anyone have this issue?

funzie · January 4, 2021, 2:07am

I was checking on this today and I was unable to find any issues on my dashboard. I vaguely remember an alert from their web monitoring portal about some updates happening in the last few days. I assume they were big updates since they mention the platform would be down.

What do you get when you manually run the updates from the device page? Any insights when you enable debug?

sburke781 · April 25, 2021, 7:23am

Hi @funzie, like you saw, being playing around with the solar Power Flow data again today. Had a couple of minor aesthetic changes I was thinking of, no dramas if you can't for any reason....

Display the Grid reading in Green when zero
Display the Usage reading in Orange when either the Grid reading is zero or Usage reading is greater than the Grid reading (am assuming this only occurs when I am drawing from my battery)

Thanks,
Simon

funzie · April 25, 2021, 4:20pm

I did those update this morning, you can find the code on this link -> hubitat-solaredge/solaredge-driver.groovy at 09c39e17ad0845d71e341807e485d564ac70277b · funzie19/hubitat-solaredge · GitHub, if it works as you requested let me know and I'll merge it with the official release.

sburke781 · April 25, 2021, 4:55pm

Thanks for the quick turnaround, I'll take a look later today and let you know what I think.

Simon

sburke781 · April 26, 2021, 8:04am

It was close....

SolarEdge_PowerFlowColours

The Usage turning Orange is what I was after, showing I am drawing power but not from the Grid or not entirely from the Grid.

But I was wanting the Grid result to be Green when it reports as zero. If you had put that in and need some info from me to try and debug it, let me know.

I'd be happy to see this checked in as is and you can look at the Grid change another time if you need / want to....

Thanks again,
Simon

funzie · April 29, 2021, 2:22am

I was looking into this today. It works to set the Grid value to green, but only if there is no battery backup. In your case, you are pulling in power from another source. I also looked at the API again today, seems like they have made some updates that I can take into account which will make displaying direction of power flow easier. I just need to get some sample data to program with. Which I'll hopefully include in a future release.

sburke781 · April 29, 2021, 9:28am

Thanks for looking into this, it sounds promising. No rush on my part, if you need any details from my system or want to run an early version to get some logs I'm happy to help out.

Simon

chowell · June 2, 2021, 6:38pm

Does anyone know how to use this output to Hubigraphs to create a rolling 7-day production graph?

I'm trying to create a rolling 7-day graph of this data.

I was looking at last_day hoping that it would be the total production for the previous day, but it appears to be the total production for today.

funzie · June 3, 2021, 1:34am

Correct, in this case it's for the current day. I'm not familiar with Hubigraphs, but take a look at the SolarEdge API and you should be able to get the last 7 days with just one API call. Just set the date range for the last 7 days.