I’m wondering if there’s something we can do with the growatt integration when using “Storage” types, when importing them to my energy dashboard they’re a bit wonky and I had to write a couple of templates to try and correct the values being received. Mostly it looks fine but as soon as I want to pull them into the stats/energy dashboard they dont look right.
I dont think this is an issue with the integration but rather Growatt’s end but hoping we can have some clarification or sensors out of the box from the integration?
As pointed out in the initial discussion this is what growatt reports on their dashboard, I’m currently only charging my batteries from solar, notice the Solar today matches the Charged today:
I think either their “charged today” calculation is wrong since they’re essentially using the entire solar input and grid charge, or that their solar input (epvToday1) only reflects the solar that went into the battery and not consumed:
As you can see one of my own templates calculates my “Battery Actual Charged” & “Solar consumed without battery charged”. @muppet3000 not sure if you’ve already fixed this or there might be different sensors I should be using?
Firstly, let me say “hi”, I’m Chris aka ‘muppet3000’ who maintains the Growatt Integration for Home Assistant.
Secondly, sorry for the massive cross-post on all the forum topics with ‘Growatt’ in the title, it was just easier to copy/paste this everywhere.
Thirdly, I didn’t realise how many forum posts there were for Growatt and the Integration!!! I must admit I find the forums very difficult to follow and navigate so I don’t spend much time here.
I mainly wanted to post to draw everyone’s attention to the following info:
1 - I’ve started maintaining the Integration primarily as a ‘custom integration’ which you can find here
2 - There’s a handy Info page for the custom integration here
3 - I will periodically roll up changes from the custom integration into the Core one in Home Assistant but this will not be very regularly
4 - There’s a prioritised list of bugs/feature requests that I’m working on here
5 - There’s a more thorough reasoning for my decision to move this into a custom integration here
6 - One thing that’s missing from the Feature Requests etc. is the addition to configure systems - I’m working on it, but it’s a background task until I have added support for all the different types of systems - Add ideas here if you have thoughts on what you’d like to be able to do.
7 - If you want to log issues or feature requests please do it here - Only there and in the Home Assistant Core repo will I actually see them, like I said I don’t actively monitor the forums, so the official repos are the best places!
8 - Please don’t assume that I’ve read this thread in a huge amount of detail, if feature requests etc. that have been requested in this thread are still relevant, please log them over on the new git repo here and I’ll get them prioritised - PLEASE read through the issues already logged first to check you’re not duplicating requests.
I hope all that makes sense, I’ve marked this thread as ‘watching’ so I’ll get notifications if people respond etc. but getting hold of me via the git repo issues section is the best way.
