Solar PV Monitoring/Automation Thread

Anyone any advice on what to do next ? Please

Got working on android device for about 30 mins and gone again 🙄

Also tried many times to put ip address into browser and no joy..anyway not to worry I'll try again tomorrow

Cheers for your help

The idea is that your HP machine should sit in a corner, or attic, or shed, or wherever, and you then connect to it remotely from any other device.

That is the plan champion - to leave it somewhere and not touch it

So the idea is that you don't actually use it as your own PC to do other things on. It's essentially a dedicated pc for HA.

That will not be the case only for HA

If you were planning on using the PC for other stuff, then maybe consider installing Linux Mint or Ubuntu on it instead, and install docker, and put HA in docker.

Not happening

You are possibly getting totally lost with this last paragraph, but Google and YouTube are full of guides for all of this. I personally just went the docker route, while knowing absolutely nothing about docker 2 months ago

Thanks i have watched many over the past week or so.

The problem I am having just to get started is :

I have done all the flashing etc as you can see from pic above,

Got it talking to my android phone - only picked up a few devices (but that is work in motion)

With regards logging into HA from a laptop through the browser (which i really want to do in order to setup devices) - I used the same IP address as my android device - https://192.168.0.xx:8123 (xx is the hard wired connection for ipv4 )

Ill check again when i get home

But I'm wondering is it a firewall issue ? , ill check with a different device maybe that will work?, I'm using Microsoft edge browser ?

The HA machine im using is hard wired (it also has wifi) - after going through a couple of you tube clips i could see bot wifi and hard wired addresses.

Thanks again

Wired and WiFi both live simultaneously will cause asymmetric routing. Use one of the other. The requests could arrive on the LAN and return via WiFi.

You could look at scripts to disable the WiFi unless the LAN is offline.

Here's a handy script to initially reset your networking if the PC / Pi cannot ping a selected IP address, and if a reset doesn't fix the problem, it does a reboot. Runs every minute

#!/bin/bash
x=`ping -c1 192.168.1.1 2>&1 | grep nreachable`
if [ ! "$x" = "" ];
then
        date >> /home/user/wlan-reset.log
        service network-manager restart
fi
sleep 20
x=`ping -c1 192.168.1.1 2>&1 | grep nreachable`
if [ ! "$x" = "" ];
then
        date >> /home/user/wlan-reset.log
        service network-manager restart
fi
sleep 20
x=`ping -c1 192.168.1.1 2>&1 | grep nreachable`
if [ ! "$x" = "" ];
then
        date >> /home/user/wlan-reboot.log
        /usr/sbin/shutdown -r now
fi

Unlikely in a home wifi network but some wifi devices now block connections between wifi devices on the same wifi network to improve security. Unifi are one such brand that implement Client Device Isolation.

Not an issue if your HA is only on the hard-wired network but something to bear in mind if it is wifi connected.

The other possibility is that the IP address may have changed if HA was off/disconnected for more than 24 hours. The HA console should show the current IP address, Not shown in your earlier screenshot but that's where it would be.

So previously you indicated the third octet was a zero, but it's now working with a one.

This confirms that you Lan and WiFi are on different subnets.

It's very likely that you cannot go from one to the other without making firewall rule changes / changing some permissions

Has anyone got copies of queries they run in Grafana/influxdb to show the nice graphs?

My Shelly is sending the data to influxdb and Grafanna can pull it out but not sure the best way to display it. The "flux" language is a little difficult to get the head around.