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I have a chart that is created using a script that takes the solar energy produced minus energy consumed to give me the net hourly consumed energy (I have two solar systems - right now my SolarEdge system is being used in the calculation - I want to be able to add the enphase system to the solarEdge values).
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Originally posted by alexbk66 View Postsolar energy produced minus energy consumed = "net-consumption". You can use Device History plugin for charting.
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Originally posted by begunfx View PostI didn't realize there was a plugin that could handle Device history. Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, at this point, I'm too far deep into utilizing Jon00's charting utility and have a net day energy script and net hourly energy script already doing most of what I need. That's why I just wanted the hourly values. If you don't feel it's worth adding the hourly I'll see if I can create a virtual device and capture the difference of now and an hour ago lifetime for hourly. I would still like to request that you add Monthly values. I want to be able to add those to my Yearly chart - which already has monthly values from my solarEdge plugin. Thanks as always for your consideration!
If I do add Monthly values - I might as well add Hourly. There was also a request to add yesterday production. I'm more inclined to use the Server API instead of doing local calculations.
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I do have Solaredge and enphase. My first system was installed back in 2014 and is a single inverter system using solaredge. It wasn't producing enough solar for us, so this year we added the new system. Different installer and different system (enphase) with microinverters. If you could add month and hourly I would be very grateful. Getting them from the api works for me. Thanks for the consideration.
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Alex,
Just got the app working and generally I LOVE it.
Although I'm a software engineer (retired), I hope that HomeSeer systems in general can become mainstream consumer electronics devices without losing their extreme flexibility and open source nature. That said, to become a mainstream electronic device they have to become so simple in their basic setup that my 80yo mother-in-law can buy and install it. A tall order I know.
To that end I would suggest:- Much more and clearer documentation. If such documentation exists I couldn't find it.
In setting up the app I had to do significant research to figure out
a) to give it a day or two to do auto discovery.
b) What FW 7.x.x was and that I needed to turn it on.
c) I still don't know what /when I should use home,jason monitoring. It seemed to turn on by itself when I turned on FW 7.x.x
d) a plain English explanation of each data element assuming the user has NO idea how the Envoy works.
e)What and when would I change the Security Protocol Types?
f)What is the use of the Zeroconf/mDNS discovery setting and when would I change it?
etc. etc. etc.
Think about writing documentation and onscreen prompts for someone with NO computer background. - Start all default device names with something consistent. I changed all mine to start with "E-" that way they all group together in the device list. Yes, I know they can be editied but why not make it easy out of the box.
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- Much more and clearer documentation. If such documentation exists I couldn't find it.
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Originally posted by BuddyRayAtl View PostAlex,
Just got the app working and generally I LOVE it.
Although I'm a software engineer (retired), I hope that HomeSeer systems in general can become mainstream consumer electronics devices without losing their extreme flexibility and open source nature. That said, to become a mainstream electronic device they have to become so simple in their basic setup that my 80yo mother-in-law can buy and install it. A tall order I know.
To that end I would suggest:- Much more and clearer documentation. If such documentation exists I couldn't find it.
In setting up the app I had to do significant research to figure out
a) to give it a day or two to do auto discovery.
b) What FW 7.x.x was and that I needed to turn it on.
c) I still don't know what /when I should use home,jason monitoring. It seemed to turn on by itself when I turned on FW 7.x.x
d) a plain English explanation of each data element assuming the user has NO idea how the Envoy works.
e)What and when would I change the Security Protocol Types?
f)What is the use of the Zeroconf/mDNS discovery setting and when would I change it?
etc. etc. etc.
Think about writing documentation and onscreen prompts for someone with NO computer background. - Start all default device names with something consistent. I changed all mine to start with "E-" that way they all group together in the device list. Yes, I know they can be editied but why not make it easy out of the box.
> to give it a day or two to do auto discovery
It must be an issue with your network/router setup. Auto discovery normally takes seconds. You may try installing Bonjour Print Services for Windows - after restarting the plugin it will automatically switch to this provider.
> What FW 7.x.x was and that I needed to turn it on
You don't "needed to turn it on" - it should be automatically detected. Since this is a pretty recent change from Envoy, and Envoy local API is not official and not documented - the switch is there in case of any issues as I said, you might want to read https://support.enphase.com/s/questi...=1663127201536
> a plain English explanation of each data element assuming the user has NO idea how the Envoy works
As I said, Envoy local API is not official and not documented - so I made the plugin work with different systems by displaying values available from the API. I don't know much about what system provides what.
> Start all default device names with something consistent
Not sure what you mean.
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- Much more and clearer documentation. If such documentation exists I couldn't find it.
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You shouldn't "do significant research to figure out". Plugin should normally be plug-and-play, required configuration is documented. Undocumented options are only used with my request in case of any issues.
It must be an issue with your network/router setup. Auto discovery normally takes seconds. You may try installing Bonjour Print Services for Windows - after restarting the plugin it will automatically switch to this provider.
>What FW 7.x.x was and that I needed to turn it on
You don't "needed to turn it on" - it should be automatically detected. Since this is a pretty recent change from Envoy, and Envoy local API is not official and not documented - the switch is there in case of any issues as I said, you might want to read
> Start all default device names with something consistent
Not sure what you mean.
xxxxxxxxxxxx.Enpower
xxxxxxxxxxxx.EnvoyS
inverters
Meter.0
Meter.1
net-consumption
production
total-consumption
in the default list by "Name Asc" these get spread across the Device list with other devices in between.
I renamed them:
E-xxxxxxxxxxxx.Enpower
E-xxxxxxxxxxxx.EnvoyS
E-inverters
E-Meter.0
E-Meter.1
E-net-consumption
E-production
E-total-consumption
so they all sort together.
Yes, I know I can use "room" or "floor" to group them in the device list - but other pulldowns where devices occur (such as when you setup an Event) use the default Name sort. Yes, this is picky - It would just be a nice and helpful thing to group the Devices with a naming convention the way we would use variable naming conventions in a programming language.
But I want to emphasize again - I love the app and it's working great! I have my car charger working like a champ. It starts charging when PV > 5kw and SOC > 30%. It stops charging when PV < 5kw or SOC < 20%. I also created a device to hold a variable "always charge" that I can set from my app to force the charger on.
But it did take me 3 days to get the plugin installed and working initially even before I started working on Events.
Just FYI, this is what I use to control my Siemen's charger. The charger has a low voltage relay control port inside that this unit controls just fine.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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