Inverter Power Flow Card

viking2010 · April 15, 2024, 10:37pm

Hi, thanks for the response. I turned off the absolute grid setting, but all that has done when importing is make the figure negative in the blue box next to the inverter and keep the positive value above the pylon (grid) as you can see below. When exporting, it’s the opposite.

Below is a video clip of the original issue I was explaining. The clip is from when I was exporting 1.863kW to the grid, absolute values is on as is invert grid power values. As you can see, the dot from the box with the voltage, Hz and power in kW in is moving to the left when the dot on the other side is moving to the right, towards the pylon. I expected both dots to be moving in the same direction? If I turn off invert values for the grid, then both dots do move in the same direction, but then it’s wrong because the Solis inverter gives a negative value when importing and a positive one when exporting. It’s like the invert value is only working on one of the values when it should be applying to both.

I am right thinking that both grid_power_169 and grid_ct_power_172 should be going to the same “sensor.solis_meter_active_power”? I also have grid_power_167 going to that sensor too. Is that right?

PowerFlow

I am however re-reading all the documentation as I see there are some notes on some of the registers. I’ll re-visit the config I have and see if I’ve messed up somewhere.

Cheers

slipx06 · April 16, 2024, 5:12pm

There is no entity grid_power_167. You can delete that from your config. If you are using the same sensor for grid_power_169 and grid_ct_power_172 then they should display the same data on the card.

viking2010 · April 17, 2024, 11:36am

Ahh ok, thank you. I took the config originally from the information in the documentation, so it could be that this info is now out of date. See highlighted line below:

slipx06 · April 17, 2024, 4:20pm

Thanks. I’ve corrected that.

slipx06 · April 19, 2024, 10:06pm

v4.31.0

Exciting New Features

feat: icons can now be set using a template sensor e.g. load1_icon: sensor.template_icon

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      template_icon:
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state('switch.pump', "on")%}
            mdi:water-boiler
          {% elif is_state('switch.pump', "off")%}
            mdi:water-boiler-off
          {% endif %}

Full Changelog: Comparing v4.30.1...v4.31.0 · slipx06/sunsynk-power-flow-card · GitHub

erwin.fiten · April 25, 2024, 1:27pm

Anyone got this running with an SMA Solar only ?

slipx06 · April 28, 2024, 4:52pm

v4.34.0

What’s Changed

Exciting New Features

feat: You can now visualise the efficiency of your MPPT strings by adding the efficiency attribute to your solar section together with the pv[1-4]_max_power (Maximum power of the MPPT based on the number and size of panels). The efficiency attribute can be one of four numeric values and activates the following display modes

0 - Disabled 
1 - Graphic display 
2 - Text display 
3 - Graphic and text display

This is disabled by default and you must set the desired display mode and specify the pv[x]_max_power in order to display this extra data.

Some examples below

1 - Graphic display

2 - Text display

3 - Graphic and text display

Patches & Bug Fixes

fix: layout improvements. Remove space from battery soc.

Full Changelog: Comparing v4.33.0...v4.34.0 · slipx06/sunsynk-power-flow-card · GitHub

championc · April 28, 2024, 4:55pm

Just some quick feedback

I tried to have three Additional Loads, and the icons disappeared. With two, it was OK

slipx06 · April 28, 2024, 9:02pm

I’m guessing you are using one of the card presets for the icons i.e. pump etc. These don’t work if you have more than two additional loads. You should rather specify the mdi: icon you want to display

championc · April 29, 2024, 8:43am

No. I was only using mdi icons. I had mdi:water-circle (for an Eddi) and mdi:ev-plug-type2 (for a Zappi)

I’ve got around it by just using AUX instead. I wanted to add another PV String Inverter

slipx06 · April 29, 2024, 9:40am

Ok not sure what the issue was then. You can add additional loads to the essential and the non-essential outputs as well as AUX. If its still a problem please open an issue on GitHub and we can troubleshoot.

wgumaa · April 29, 2024, 12:15pm

@slipx06 Hey, quick question, can you use card mod to remove borders and background from the different views?

Can’t seem to get it to work.

slipx06 · April 29, 2024, 12:50pm

@wgumaa yes you can

card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card { 
      --ha-card-background: transparent;
      border-style: none;
    }

wgumaa · April 29, 2024, 1:34pm

Not working for me!!

type: custom:sunsynk-power-flow-card
cardstyle: compact
title: null
title_size: 16px
title_colour: green
panel_mode: false
card_height: null
card_width: null
show_solar: true
show_battery: false
decimal_places: 2
inverter:
  modern: false
  model: fronius
  colour: green
  autarky: energy
  auto_scale: true
  three_phase: true
solar:
  colour:
    - 225
    - 169
    - 16
  display_mode: 2
  show_daily: true
  mppts: 1
  pv1_name: Solar
  max_power: 12000
  auto_scale: true
  dynamic_colour: true
load:
  show_aux: false
  show_daily_aux: false
  additional_loads: 3
  show_daily: true
  auto_scale: true
  max_power: 13000
  load1_icon: mdi:heat-pump-outline
  load2_icon: mdi:ev-station
  three_phase: true
  dynamic_colour: true
  dynamic_icon: true
  invert_load: true
  load3_icon: mdi:fan
  load1_name: Heat
  load2_name: EV
  load3_name: Vent
grid:
  show_daily_buy: true
  show_daily_sell: true
  show_nonessential: false
  auto_scale: true
  export_colour:
    - 225
    - 169
    - 16
  colour:
    - 24
    - 158
    - 216
  invert_grid: false
  show_absolute: false
entities:
  day_grid_import_76: sensor.daily_energy_import
  grid_connected_status_194: null
  grid_power_169: sensor.convert_grid_power
  day_pv_energy_108: sensor.solarnet_energy_day
  remaining_solar: sensor.energy_production_today_remaining
  essential_load1: sensor.instantaneous_used_power_32167
  essential_load2: sensor.wattpilot_charging_energy
  load_power_L1: sensor.smart_meter_ts_65a_3_real_power_phase_1
  load_power_L2: sensor.smart_meter_ts_65a_3_real_power_phase_2
  load_power_L3: sensor.smart_meter_ts_65a_3_real_power_phase_3
  environment_temp: sensor.current_outdoor_temperature_bt1_30002
  pv1_power_186: sensor.solarnet_power_photovoltaics
  total_pv_generation: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_1_energy_year
  grid_ct_power_172: sensor.solarnet_power_grid
  day_grid_export_77: sensor.daily_energy_export
  day_load_energy_84: sensor.house_daily_load
  pv1_current_110: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_dc_current
  pv1_voltage_109: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_dc_voltage
  inverter_current_164: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_ac_current
  inverter_voltage_154: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_ac_voltage
  load_frequency_192: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_frequency
  inverter_power_175: sensor.symo_advanced_15_0_3_m_ac_power
  essential_power: sensor.solarnet_power_load
  essential_load3: sensor.ventilation_current_power_usage
large_font: false
show_grid: true
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card { 
      --ha-card-background: transparent;
      border-style: none;
    }

**

slipx06 · April 29, 2024, 1:56pm

Is card_mod working. What happens when you set baground to green?

card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card { 
      --ha-card-background: green;
      border-style: none;
    }

wgumaa · April 29, 2024, 2:44pm

Green works border no!

Trying different indentations!

slipx06 · April 29, 2024, 2:54pm

Try these

card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card { 
      --ha-card-background: transparent;
      --ha-card-border-radius: 10px;
      --ha-card-box-shadow: 0px ;
      --ha-card-border-width: 10px;
    }

wgumaa · April 29, 2024, 5:56pm

slipx06:

card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card { 
      --ha-card-background: transparent;
      --ha-card-border-radius: 10px;
      --ha-card-box-shadow: 0px ;
      --ha-card-border-width: 10px;
    }

That worked. I set the radius and width to zero!

Cheers!!!

slipx06 · April 30, 2024, 4:28pm

v4.35.0

What’s Changed

Exciting New Features

feat: added animation for battery charge when using linear gradient. Set the battery animate attribute to false to disable
feat: when solar sell is turned off the sell limit is grayed out

Patches & Bug Fixes

fix: alignment of PV names and solar efficiency on the lite and compact cards closes #414

Other Changes

docs: update new options
docs: update huawei example - thanks @Roving-Ronin in Documentation - Huawei by Roving-Ronin · Pull Request #411 · slipx06/sunsynk-power-flow-card · GitHub
docs update sunsynk example

Full Changelog: Comparing v4.34.1...v4.35.0 · slipx06/sunsynk-power-flow-card · GitHub

championc · April 30, 2024, 9:06pm

Am I doing something wrong with my setup here ?

The inverter is discharging 5.30kW and it sees 4.61kW Exporting to the grid, which is also correct. So should the House Load not show 690w ?