ABB solar invertor. Don't know where to start!

Third party integrations
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Hi. I have Home Assistant up and running after a week of tweaking and playing. Got the lights, Sonos and Telegram integrations working, spliced together with NodeRed. Now I’m looking for my next challenge.

I have an ABB invertor in the garage. Miles away from my Home Assistant! It has a serial interface but what would I need to buy/do to get it feeding info to my Home Assistant? Could I use a PiZero maybe and a USB to RS232 cable? What software would I need on the PiZero? I could wifi that up quite easily… that’d be a great next project!

Thanks for pointers and help! Much appreciated

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Yes. You may connect pi at that location and create script that control by rs232 or just run 2nd HA instance at remote location and connect to main location by eventstream/statestream integration or use HA rest API

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