GoodWe/SEMS polling interval

Configuration
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Hi all!

Relatively new to the whole HA game, but have recently bumped into a problem.

I recently had solar panels installed with a GoodWe inverter. I added the GoodWe integration into HA just fine with everything working as it should. However, as I don’t have access to HA from outside my network (still reading into using VPN, but do not have enough knowledge yet), I would like to use the SEMS portal in addition to HA.

Problem is that I cannot for the life of me get both HA and SEMS to work at the same time. I have read through the forums (and the rest of the www for that matter) and I realize the problem is the frequent polling of HA which ‘breaks’ SEMS portal.

Now I have turned polling off in the HA GoodWe system settings, which in turn makes SEMS portal work again. I then created an automation to have HA poll the PV Power entity of GoodWe every 5 minutes (as also stated in Goodwe Polling interval). This doesn’t seem to work, as the automation does not update. It only updates if i click run automation manually (meaning HA can read the GoodWe data, just not automatically).

There are no errors in the log or the trace. The only ‘odd’ thing I can see is that when I trigger the automation manually, the timestamp is altered.

Can somebody please help me. I am on the verge of giving up :frowning:

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Nobody? :frowning:

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Hi @JcNeji,

I too just got a Goodwe inverter installed and have been experiencing the same issue with the SEMS portal breaking after enabling the HA Goodwe integration. I would also like to keep the portal working as it has a decent interface. After much trial and error it seems that 5 minute interval seems to work. Here is my yaml to update the sensor…

alias: Goodwe inverter data polling
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: "*"
    minutes: /5
    seconds: "0"
condition: []
action:
  - service: homeassistant.update_entity
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: sensor.pv_power_2
mode: single
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Same issue here. I just stopped using the integration and I use the HACS SEMS integration instead now (which works fine, and also includes info about your homekit/consumption meter if you have one)

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This seems to work. Setting the time pattern to 5 mins or more allows the inverter to still update SEMS Portal.
Unfortunately we have to add each entity we need to update as updating only the device does not work at least in my case.

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My dealer of the Goodwe Inverter is telling me that the update frequency is 5 minutes, so it won’t make sense to get update faster.
I’ve also confirmed it myself through SEMS REST API interface.