It’s one of them scenarios where you bought it last year😂 but for about $3 it’s now out of the cloud. Added bonus is it comes with the power supplies and a double adapter too.
Anyone come across these power monitoring smart plugs https://www.amazon.com.au/meross-Smart-Outlet-Energy-Monitor/dp/B097289C24/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=smart+plug&psr=EY17&qid=1637581591&s=black-friday&sr=1-7
Are they esp based?
Haven’t tried them myself, but there is a HACS component for Meross devices and another one using their cloud.
Thanks, the HACS component will give me an option if it not an esp. I’ll give them a go,
Ozsmartthings have dropped their price for the Shelly1 to $13 as a part of their Black Friday sale
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Amazon was quick. The Meross mss310 does not contain an esp chip, it’s a mediatek arm mt7682n.
So I’ll give HACS integration a try.
Aside. These plug are bigger than I expected, you won’t be able to put two side by side in a standard gpo. About 67 mm square
Or chip swap it. I just chip swapped a Brilliant RGBW globe (got another one ready to go as well). It took a bit of testing to find the correct config but now it works perfectly. Zero cloud for the win 
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Well I did snap the cpu board off one of the units (trying to peek at it), so I have a volunteer.
The front came off the device without any trouble (just 4 screws), but have figured out how to remove the board. Seems to be held down by the power prongs through the case.
I took a risk and bought another 2 of the same Brilliant Smart plugs. Bought them online again.
Flashed with Esphome via Tuya-convert without a hiccup.
Maybe they get shipped from a local warehouse with old stock? (Melbourne West)
Hi all,
Considering Solar once again and curious what people are using/experiencing.
Been quoted $7500 for 18 370W solar edge panels with built in optimisers and a 5kW inverter installed on a single story tile roof in newcastle.
I’ve had many quotes over the years and this is ballpark what I expected. I want to pull my energy monitoring into HA and see there is a solaredge integration with a 15 minute update cycle. Also a local API on some inverters but may be getting disabled by firmware. Unsure
I don’t know why I want to pull the data yet nor what I will use it for other than graphs. Though solaredge themselves provide graphs so what am i really gaining? Who knows. Would love to hear people use cases and thoughts on the above if you have any. Thanks
I automate turning my heat pump on during the day if cooling or heating is required and there is excess solar energy available. Cheaper to keep the house at a comfortable temperature with “free” energy rather than paying for it later when I get home.
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I (actually the $parky ) have finally installed a twelve channel ct clamp system on my main power board last Friday, to monitor everything, including solar, and now have HA energy page looking correct:
I could have done the solar years ago because there is Fronius add-on that can talk to my inverter, and get same data.
I want to use this data to find where I can save energy, automatic to what I can, and convince my wife not to turn on the dishwasher at night.
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I kinda want to do this too. So the CT clamp provides everything you provided images of? Or the inverter is providing the solar flow information?
My switchboard is a mess having been though addon after addon over the years. What did that cost you and was it an off the shelf purchase?
The CT clamp is picking up the solar, but I could use the inverter data.
The actual hardware circuit came from https://circuitsetup.us/product-category/power-management/, its about $100 per 6 channel board, $15 per CT clamp, $20 a power transfer. So about $550 for 12 channels. When I purchased my boards a couple of years ago, they were cheaper, and I bought the clamp on ebay, and transformer locally. Then a diy 3d printed case.
I have seen the invoice from the sparky yet, but $1000+ is expected. It including installing the GPO, and new din-rail power meter so I can have hard number for my tax on my granny flat rental. I’ll be charging myself full rate for the rental expense. I simplified the job, by going to a esp32 with an external antenna. Originally I asked for an external box to hold the monitor. (added another $10 for the esp32).
Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread but the Arlec grid connect work out of the box, just set up with the Tuya Smart app on your phone (instead of the Arlec app). They then work with Tuya in home assistant.
I have done this with a wall switch and 3 different types of smart switches (with and without energy monitoring
Cloud 
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or tuya local?
Which (I think) is due to go away.
Sgt Batten.
I have a Solaredge 8 kw 3-phase inverter which was installed along with a 3-phase energy monitor in the switchboard.
The inverter reports solar production, along with power consumption and import/export to the Solaredge website and using their API I can download that to HA every 15 minutes, as you noted.
However, I have enabled the TCP Modbus interface of the inverter, and by adding a python script to HA, I am now getting the same data direct from the inverter every 15 seconds. This also has the added advantage of not relying on an internet connection.
The TCP Modbus interface had not been enabled by the installer, but I found the install manual for the inverter online, and was able to enable the interface myself in a few minutes.
Let me know if you need more info.
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Are you able to give me the details to this, or a link to the manual, I had tried but couldnt find it. What was involved in getting HA to talk to it once it was enabled?