Hi guys, I finally connected an old Aurora Inverter to home assistant using ESPHome, following this project.
The integration show many data related to energy production (weekly, yearly, daily) but the Energy Dashboard is not showing the exposed sensor.
I the change the device class to energy via customize.yaml.
Do you have any idea to solve this problem?
This my customize.yaml (in the first rows I changed the device class of and other product that is working fine)
# Impostare la device_class dei sensori GAS ed Energia di Veissmann -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sensor.caldaia_dhw_gas_consumption_today:
device_class: gas
sensor.caldaia_heating_gas_consumption_today:
device_class: gas
sensor.caldaia_consumo_energetico_del_riscaldamento_a_gas_giorno_corrente:
device_class: energy
sensor.caldaia_consumo_energetico_del_riscaldamento_a_gas_dell_acqua_calda_giorno_corrente:
device_class: energy
# Impostare la device_class dei sensori Energia di Inverter-Aurora -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sensor.esp32_s2_inverter_aurora_cumulated_energy_today:
device_class: energy
sensor.esp32_s2_inverter_aurora_cumulated_energy_week:
device_class: energy
sensor.esp32_s2_inverter_aurora_cumulated_energy_month:
device_class: energy
sensor.esp32_s2_inverter_aurora_cumulated_energy_year:
device_class: energy
sensor.esp32_s2_inverter_aurora_cumulated_energy_total:
device_class: energy
Hi,
I can’t help you with your query I’m afraid, although you may be able to help me.
I am going through the process of connecting an Aurora PowerOne following that same project, and when compiling I get an error regarding the Wire.h file not existing. Is this file required?
I have removed the line ‘#include <wire.h>’ from the ‘ABBAurora.h’ file and it now compiles without any errors.
I haven’t been able to test the connection with the invertor yet but I’d be interested in how you dealt with this issue.
No I didn’t because my inverter miss the connection module that costs around 200€. I just use esphome board (less than 10€). It works but the entity doesn’t pop-up in the energy dashboard
Hi, I wonder if you could help me? I am trying to connect to my Aurora PowerOne invertor and can’t seem to get it communicate. How are you connecting to the PowerOne? Are you using the USB connection, the RJ11 connection, or the terminal block? If you could provide some wiring details from your TTL to RS485 module (i’m using the 485 to serial port UART https://amzn.eu/d/aQhoFgH) to the invertor, it would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, have you tried using the Powercalc integration to create an energy entity from you generated watts entity? You may find that this then allows you to bring the Energy Entity (kWh) into the energy dashboard.
Hi, to connect the Inverter to Home Assistant I’m using ESPHome integration by NabuCasa. For the hardware I’m using a ESP32 Board (in my case this one wemos esp32-s2) and a RS-485 module (link). You can find wiring scheme in this repo.
The RS-485 is connected to the Inverter RS485 board and the ESP32 simply read them and push to Home Assistant.
The problem is that i can see all entities about daily, weekly consumption and so on as describe in the my first post but I’m not able to add to the Home Assistant Energy Dashboard.
In the repo you can find also installation guidelines but if you need help write me.
If the sensors aren’t showing as available in the energy dashboard, I suggest checking the following on each entity:
Make sure the units are correct, should be kWh or Wh.
Make sure the device class is set to Energy
Make sure the state class is set to Total Increasing
If the entities are being created by ESPHome, you may need to change your ESP device configuration.
Examples here:
You can also experiment with the sensor types by creating a template sensor. On this sensor you can experiment and set the above options to see what enables visibility on the energy dashboard.