I will be shortly buying a Delta Plus 1024Wh i think to use with HA. It’s over two hours of load. And it’s way better bang for my buck than the EATON piece of shit I have.
greetings Rudd-O, I am new to HA and I have purchased a second hand Delta Plus Agilon 1000va UPS, I was wondering if you have been able to plug yours with HA to be able to monitor the status of the UPS… thank you in advance
Yes, I could. What I had to do was run network UPS tools in another machine where I plug the UPS and then I told Home Assistant the address of the network UPS tool server where I have it running and network UPS tools provides the necessary information to Home Assistant. The UPS plugs to the machine running network UPS tools using a USB cable.
Due to a change that happened in Home Assistant a few revisions ago, now I have to have an automation periodically poll the network UPS tools integration to update the information on the entities I want information more frequently, because otherwise you only get information every 30 seconds which just isn’t enough to make critical decisions in the case of a power outage. I specifically update the entity that gets the UPS status and also the UPS status data, which are using my automations to decide what needs to be turned off in the case of a power outage.