Daily pv production

The inverter actually switched on today. One of life's small victories

@Slaanesh, export is not a problem. The problem is dumping to the grid on demand.

That's a source of revenue for some here as they buy at a cheap rate and sell for full FIT when they are happy they won't need it. An empty battery by charge time. AlphaESS consider this a power supplier company interface, not and end user one. Other that that niggle, very happy with the AlphaESS. Active home assistant community, and an open API.

Pretty much all your grid consumption was in the small hours, so I assumed a big battery.

Btw, You are not allowed to mention supplier names here, might want to edit that out

For shame. 😂

3kWh . Galway, 6kW array SE/SW

:)

Grand aul stretch in d'aul yevening there tonight

Pretty pathetic at the moment, I'm on 44kwh for the entire month🤣

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058050685/solar-pv-performance-thread-post-your-monthly-output

check this one out. will give you a feel for monthly stats

I've a pretty similar system to yourself 2011. 6.5Kwp system split exactly E/W in South Dublin City. Here is my stats so far this month.

Note: I added 3x panels in March last year bringing me from 5.3Kwp -> 6.5Kwp, so comparing this month with this time last year isn't a like for like comparison - but the average above so far this month is just over 2.1Kwh/day.

For comparison though with Feb 2023, again where I had only 5.3Kwp, you can see the big jump upwards starting to happen.

Average last Feb (from 5.3Kwp) was nearly 6kwh/day - but it's April to Sept where it really comes into it's own. May and June last year I was averaging 25Kwh/day.

There are a lot of us here using Home Assistant for home automation (not just for solar), and use old tablets as a display/controller.

There are a few options on it for displaying your solar PV and power usages

Examples, hourly power usage/makeup

Handy overview of power flow in the house.

I had bought one of these ulanzi led clocks to use with home assistant in the past. You can send information to it from home assistant and someone created a solar generation notification which shows the current live generation. You can set it not to display solar generation when it's 0w and shows time, date etc so doesn't constantly need to show solar value. Nice to be able to see it at a glance without checking phone etc.

https://www.ulanzi.com/products/ulanzi-pixel-smart-clock-2882

https://flows.blueforcer.de/flow/YjJZo6m7AyrL

Can you give me the overview on how this works. Ie download home assistant from iOS and then where to go?

would also be great if there was a widget for iOS. But none available for fusion solar (huawei)

much appreciated

Surprisingly the east side of galway got a break in clouds for two hours so finished above forecast at 7.2kwh

Home Assistant is an open source platform that runs locally on your home network, and if maintained by yourself. Pretty much any smart device can be added to it, including solar PV systems, and it allows you to both control them in one app (iOS & android) and/or web browser. It also allows you to setup automations based on the gear you use, e.g lights come on/ off at sunset/sunrise, or trigger your washing machine to start once your battery has charged from the sun.

there are loads of tutorials on YouTube on getting started. There is a bit of work involved in setting up from scratch. A Raspberry Pi might suffice if you are not a heavy user but ideally you need a home server or dedicated PC to install it on, this gives more options for running extra devices or services.

An old tablet can be repurposed as a wall display / controller and show your energy management from solar and the home in general.

There is a thread on Home Assistant on boards as well but everything you need for it can be found on YouTube

Nice yield.