Brilliant video and was instrumental in me getting our generator set-up. I have a few notes for people who want to auto start a generator that is supplied with an ATS designed to start the gen when there's a power cut but want to use it on the inverter. I assume these are pretty common similar across the world. We're in Kenya.. - Wire the gen signal from the inverter across the manual/auto switch on your ATS - This will mean when gen signal is on it will close the dry relay and switch your ATS to auto, as you have no loads connected it will start gen - When signal goes off gen will shutdown as ATS will see it as now back in manual mode - Gen force needs to be off as this is needed for manual start but for auto just keeps the relay closed - Gen signal and gen charge on + starting % in battery settings - System work mode - Gen charge for the times you want to charge and the % on the right will be where the gen shuts down This should trigger the generator to turn on when the % goes too low. From testing if there's a grid supply it won't start the generator so should only start if battery is low and there's no grid power coming in. 🙂

Hi, really enjoy your videos. Any chance you can help with a video configuring Solar assistant card monitoring a Deye inverter into HA like you did with Solarman card?

Hello again : ) thank you for your work, i now have found the 3 missing sensors. i will do all my dashbords new to mqtt :) thank you for inspiration to try it again and again until 2 years :) thank you

This is better than Solar Assistant to Home Assistant?

Can the data from the Solarman be used to activate Smart devices like a Wifi smart switch? And do you have more info on this please?

diese integration ist um einiges besser als die sunsync dye multi :) so hab ich auch ein dashboard geschafft :)

Hi, great work, I did notice after I was experiencing issues that you file supplied doesn't match your configuration.yaml in the video. I zoomed in and added the calculation for the prepaid units left as the file supplied is missing that part. Also note i allowed negatives in the remaining units to allow for errors in the script. Then I added the mode: box to the prepaid_units to change it from slider. - Hope this helps. ### Prepaid Meter # Input number for entering prepaid units input_number: prepaid_units: name: Enter Prepaid Units from Meter initial: 0 min: 0 max: 999 step: 1 unit_of_measurement: "kWh" mode: box icon: mdi:home-lightning-bolt-outline prepaid_units_left: name: Enter Prepaid Units Left initial: 0 min: -999 max: 999 step: 1 unit_of_measurement: "kWh" icon: mdi:home-lightning-bolt-outline initial_grid_import: name: Initial Grid Import initial: 0 min: 0 max: 99999 step: 1 unit_of_measurement: "kWh" icon: mdi:counter # Input datetime to store the last update time input_datetime: last_update: name: Last Update has_date: true has_time: true # Template sensor to calculate remaining units template: - sensor: - name: "Prepaid Units Left" icon: mdi:home-lightning-bolt-outline unit_of_measurement: "kWh" state: > {% set initial_import = states('input_number.initial_grid_import') | float %} {% set current_import = states('sensor.deye_total_energy_bought') | float %} {% set units = states('input_number.prepaid_units') | float %} {% set used_units = current_import - initial_import %} {{ (units - used_units) | round(2) }} - name: "Units Used Since Last Update" icon: mdi:flash unit_of_measurement: "kWh" state: > {% set initial_import = states('input_number.initial_grid_import') | float %} {% set current_import = states('sensor.deye_total_energy_bought') | float %} {{ (current_import - initial_import) | round(2) }} - name: "Last Update Date" icon: mdi:calendar state: > {{ states('input_datetime.last_update') }}

HI. thanks for the great videos. Can you maybe check this: # Template sensor to calculate remaining units - platform: template sensor: - name: Prepaid Units Left icon: mdi:home-lightning-bolt-outline unit_of_measurement: kWh state: "{{ states('input_number.prepaid_units_left') | float }}" - name: Units Used Since Last Update icon: mdi:flash unit_of_measurement: kWh state: > {% set initial_import = states('input_number.initial_grid_import') | float %} {% set current_import = states('sensor.esphome_8k_sunsynk_sunsynk_total_grid_import') | float %} {{ (current_import - initial_import) | round(2) }} - name: Last Update Date icon: mdi:calendar state: | {{ states('input_datetime.last_update') }} I can be wrong, but maybe there need sum calculations -name: Prepaid Units Left?

Hello @SolarIntegrations. Firtst of all Thanks for your great effort and knowledge of you your video. I have a little confusion. Apparently aux port can be set to smart load (output) or gen input. Lets say: electrician install a gen inlet which has male probes. I ve been using as gen input. But what if accidentally change setting to smartload, wouldn't my gen inlet fitting male probes be active and expose electrical danger?

Please note that there is a new HACS repo for this addon Follow the link here Use the custom repo link github.com/BJReplay/ha-solcast-solar Select the category type integration Then once it's there (still in HACS) click the INSTALL button Then go to the HA Devices and Services and add a new Solcast Integration

Hi, thanks for a great video, I cannot get the calculations to work on mine, get all the elements, as well as the Units Used Since Last Update is updating, correctly, but the remaining balance isn't updating at all

Does this work with sunsynk dongle?

my deye inverter status is always disconnected with solarman no data is updating in home assistant extended system version is 1.1.00.10

Did you add a device(sensor) to sense when grid power is off?

Awesome guide, very detailed. I have a 5kw sunsynk ( intending to install a 2nd) will this work in my case? Does the wifi dongle continue to function for updates etc?

Hello can you explain how you configure mbusd with a connector rs485 im search since a few days and i haven't solution !!! Thanks in advance !!! Sorrry for my english

The reason why you didn't saw the prodection for today was more then 30kWh is because it was 5 kwh/hour. Not for 1 day!

Which geyser switches do you use? I used contactors in conjunction with Sonoff Basic's, but those can't measure the power, it only measures the power the actual contactor consumes.

Bonjour a tous, J'essaie de me connecter au port RS485 de mon onduleur Deye 6kw mais je n'arrive pas a recevoir de données en sorties quelles que soient la methode utilisées par d'autres. Faut il la mettre en service ? quelle est la methode Pourrait elle estre en panne ? la rs 232 et le bus batterie fonctionne parfaitement La j'avoue que je ne trouve pas la solution un ptit coup de main serait le bienvenu Merci par avance

Hello Thanks for the video, When choosing the data center I had the choice only to choose Western Europe Data Center however according to locations i have to choose Central Europe data Center which was not available. Please advise.

Thank you. This worked to the point where I am looking for the "gather flow.json" file in the zip that was downloaded. It doesn't seem to be in the zip file. There is a .txt gather file

hi. thanks for the video. it helped me to connect via solarman dongle. but i'm strugling to connect using USB-RS485 dongle. maybe there is good guide on how to do it including hardware part of the connection (like what port on the inverter to use, what is pinout digramm, etc)?

hi , Firstly TQ for your videos - currently after adding first card - got Cannot read properties of undefined (reading state) . Can you help?

I have deye sun20k 3 phase inverter running LSW3_32. Any suggestions?

Hi all lately ive been getting an error with incomming data ofteten. any ideas what can be causing it? under the https im getting unable_to_verify_leaf_signature?

Works perfect! Thanks for the video. Do you know how to add a 2nd Solarman Inverter (Microinverter) with this Integration

That’s for your contributions. Brought the board and case and power lead etc. Fairly painless install with good support when I had issues. Neat solution and Works a treat. Had to replace my Sunsynk dongle that failed after only 5 months. After integrating into home assist offers so many powerful options.

hi. this coming with a error on SUNSYNK GATHER http request : UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE

Hi there thanks for the Vid. i'm very new to all this , could you tell me could i use this dashboard if i have 2 inverters on my setup?

I'm sorry but you explained it completely wrong. Why do you think you can enter the performance of the modules? Exactly, so that the forecast is somewhat consistent. For example, if you have 4000W installed on the east side and 5000W on the west side, different forecasts will be displayed. In my case, i included 4 Strings which lead to 2 inverters.

Thanks for the video. Can you set timings for charging batteries / exporting to the grid from on this video? or is there a link to a video to set this up. I'm very novice with Home Assistant a step by step walk through will be helpful.

Hello when I copy the "configuration.yaml addition" into the configuration.yaml then I get the error message: bad indentation of a mapping entry (31:3) 28 | ####pv4_v_115: none 29 | ####pv4_i_116: none 30 | 31 | - sensor: --------^ 32 | - name: "Sunsynk Daily PV 108" 33 | state: > Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

My board does not have an API KEY after installation, what could be the problem?

Would I be correct in thinking it's pulling this information from SunSynk cloud? There isnt a way to pull the data from the datalogger directly? Sunsynk cloud have been a little ropey today and I would like to get realtime data rather than 60 second delayed from Sunsynk cloud

I ran into problems with the flash on my ESP32dev board. There was not enough storage in app0 to storing the compiled application, 108% of the roughly 2MB. app0 and app1 are the same size, to upload images OTA and marking the new app partition as active. I created a custom_partition.csv file with the following contents: # Name, Type, SubType, Offset, Size, Flags nvs, data, nvs, 0x009000, 0x005000, otadata, data, ota, 0x00e000, 0x002000, app0, app, ota_0, 0x010000, 0x380000, eeprom, data, 0x99, 0x390000, 0x001000, spiffs, data, spiffs, 0x391000, 0x00F000 This removed app1, doubled app0 thus making only USB flashing possible. this file is stored in the same location as your configuration yaml file. in the yaml file, the following is added: esphome: platformio_options: board_build.partitions: "/config/esphome/custom_partition.csv" So far, it looks good. There is a risk of bricking the esp32, but I took the chance. Maybe this helps someone else : )

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Thank you for the video. It's easy enough to follow, but then it finishes without explaining how to bring it all together? Where do we run the YAML code (sorry, still a newbie to HA), how do we setup the Mushroom Cards, etc. At this point, I only have the basic LoadShedding card added to my default dashboard, which is plain and boring. How do we find out more? I'm trying to create a dashboard and add the Mushroom card, but it's not found... although it is in my HACS Frontend.

Hi. I'm having this issue. I want to try this way. But only question is when grid is gone the geyser is off. But then what happens when a timer trigger it to go on?

Thank for the great video John. We are wanting to connect a 10KVA Diesel Generator to a Sunsynk 16Kw Inverter. The Generator we are looking at will produce 35A at Max, so was hoping that we would be able to pull 30A from the Generator to charge the batteries during cloudy days etc. The generator is supplied with an ATS, but since this is not going to be sensing a loss of power from he eskom side, how exactly does the inverter trigger the generator to start, and then once it has charged sufficiently to turn off the generator?

Repository 'slipx06/sunsynk-power-flow-card' exists in the store.

When i try to scan qr code in cbi app and authorise, i get an error on iot tuya that qr code has expired

I added the CBI Astute to the CBI app. However, the video doesn't explain how to add it to Tuya. Can you guide me through the process?

hi thanks for this infomation, i have a powmr spk5 im trying this but getting modbus errors

There is also Solar Assistant.

Funcionou! Obrigado pelo vídeo.

Thank you for the great tutorial If done everything, step by step, numerous times. I event went so far to wipe off everything and startimg over, but I still get the error "Custom element doesn't exist: sunsynk-power-flow-card". Where do I start, how do I get past this error. I habe troef other people's tutorials as well but nothing.

Thanks for the video - it was very helpful! I did have to remap some of the sensor names due to a breaking change in Slipx06's v1.8.6

Hi thank you for the helpfull video . My q is i connnect the generator on grid input port but it dose not work it appeare as off grid after start loading for a few seconds ..and when i connect it to the generator input it worked well ? For ypur information I have changed the limmits of frequancey.. Is the nominal ramp time the issue?