Has anyone here connected their older solar inverter (no LAN/WLAN) to HA through a ESP8266/NodeMCU? I have an older inverter that has a RS485 serial connection available and want to log stats to HA (or secondary, PVoutput > HA).
If anyone has any experience with this, I’d love to hear about it.
I have quite a few esp8266 / esp32 mcu’s in my system. I have not setup a RS485 connection with the ESP’s but, I use them for connected sensors and then send the data to HA via MQTT. It should not be hard to use the esp8266 to get the RS485 values from the solar unit and then send the data via MQTT to HA, maybe a MQTT sensor?