I’ve been having similar issue to @prj32 whom everything is reporting except the sensor “Energy_Sold” I followed the correct tutorial in installing it, had a mate troubleshoot this issue alongside me, with no result.
FYI: It’s currently day time, Fronius app has correct details reporting ok.
Below is the entity that isn’t reporting correctly.
You have two sensors which has energy_sold as friendly name and you have probably mixed them up.
If you have your meter at location 1, consumption, then it will never give you any energy sold… And you actually named that entity with that friendly name as well. Probably you selected the wrong entity for the energy dashboard.
You need to check entity sensor.energy_sold and sensor.energy_bought
Not sure if this would be the place, but I’m wondering how to reboot the inverter. In the local web interface, this can be done through /admincgi-bin/reboot.cgi (that’s what is accessed through a button at the bottom in http://…/#/about_system), so it should be feasible by means of curl or something similar. Just not sure how to do it!
Yes, authentication is needed. The reason I want to reboot is that sometimes the Datalogger becomes unavailable, even though it is still connected to the (w)lan. HA cannot access it, and no data is sent to Solar.web. But my router registers it as connected. I’m not 100% sure it can actually be accessed in that state, it happens so rarely (maybe once a month) that I haven’t been able to pinpoint the problem, but it seems worth a try. The only other option, which I have usually resorted to, is to flip the switch, physically. Can’t be done remotely!
Not entirely latest, for some reason it refuses to update with the latest revision. But the issues with flaky wifi were resolved some three years ago. Might have to fetch that usb stick and attempt a manual update…
I’ve managed to update to latest firmware, so we’ll see if that makes a difference. Meanwhile, no one who’s got an idea of how to reboot the inverter through a curl request?
Hello, I need an help too…
I have connected the inverter to HA using the official integration but I can’t add the data from the inverter (or meter or solarnet) into the energy dashboard.
Is this the right way to get all data in HA? Where I am wrong?
I should receive the batteries at the beginning of december, so at the moment I only have the inverter and the fronius smart meter.
This is directly connected to the inverter.
The gen24 instead is connected to my lan.
These are the 3 devices appeared on HA after adding the inverter IP to the integration: the inverter, the solarnet (i think it is web based) and the smart meter.
Yes I read it but I can’t get all the info, I mean, I added the Energy Total in solar production but this value include all (produced and get from grid)
I think I should take these 2 values from the SolarNet (but I think that this data comes from internet, and I want to use local data).
first is the consumption from grid, and the second is the actual solar production, but I can’t use them on the energy dashboard
Nothing of the core fronius integration is sourced from the internet. Thats all local.
You can’t, and shouldn’t have to, use power values. Energia presa - I don’t even know the language - but W is for power states - so I hope this is not a translation bug.
No, only produced. (Prefer the inverter devices Energy total entity over the one from SolarNet device).
If a battery will be installed soon, then it would make sense to set up already the solar production from the solar power. Energy total is really what the inverter ever produced to the grid from solar and battery, and makes more sense to use the power from the beginning then redoing in a few weeks.
Otherwise the instructions are quite clear. Use power values and calculate Energy with the integral function. (Helper).
I set some arrows on the screenshot, could you confirm that the values pointed are correct?
I know I am OT now, but is there a way to see the instant production and not daily? Because since I don’t have the batteries I am using the fronius app to power on/off the loads (dishwater, etc) in order to use the electricity produced instead of the one take from the grid.
That is feed in point, and I think you set it up correctly.
Those values are matching as far as I can tell.
There is one thing what you need to know about 3 phase measurements that might makes a difference when it comes to billing.
There are multiple ways how you can measure consumption and production.
Algebraic sum, the utility meter provided by your electricity company might count this way production and consumption, it adds together what you produced at a time and separately adds together what you taken from the grid. It means if your inverter produces 3kW, it will output 1kW to each phase, when you turn on a washing machine which consumes 2kW, it will take 2kW from a single phase. So at the end you will produce on 2 phases 1 and 1 kW to the grid and on 1 phase you will consume 1kW (2kW consumption and 1 kW production).
Vector-sum, production and consumption on the 3 phases are counted as vectors. Following the previous example you produce 3kW from the inverter and consumption 2kW by the washing machine ends up producing 1kW to the grid and no consumption from the grid.
Longer period calculations, ie. settling sums after each hour, in every hour production and consumption summed together and calculated as vector-sum.
The Fronius smart meter follows the 2. Option. Those values in that calculation might differ how your utility meter calculates. If you want to compare with bills later on your stats, you need to know how is your utility meter calculates it, otherwise it will cause confusion for yourself, when you crosscheck things.
As the meter location says 0.0 that should mean feed-in point, so you can use the consumption and production values for the Energy dashboard.
Please use the phrases correctly! It is Power (Watt), not Energy (Watt-hour).
sensor.power_ac_fronius_inverter_.... is what you need. It is the current production by the inverter (power in Watts). Positive when the inverter produces to AC and negative if you charge the battery from AC.
sensor.power_real_fronius_meter_...... is also useful. It shows if you are producing excess power to the grid or consuming from the grid. Positive when you are consuming from the grid. Negative when you are producing to the grid.
It is the same value as your Energia presa, what you named wrongly as in English it is called Power grid and it shows the power taken or given to the grid. Positive when consuming from the grid and negative when producing to the grid.
