Yeh. I’ve liaised with the author of this a few months ago, as I too spotted it.
I pointed him in the direction of Home assistant as it turns out he wasn’t aware of it.
He still has work to do with it, but it does report readings every 5 minutes.
I hoped he might run with it & make a HACS version which would be an ideal solution for me.
He’s obviously a busy guy & has shelved this project for the time being I guess.
His email address is [email protected], if you want to chat to him tho.
He was very helpful in getting it running correctly on my system.
The one thing I am hoping to solve at the moment is a slightly silly but hopefully simple problem.
I have a few items which draw power where I would rather the battery NOT discharge whilst they are drawing power. Examples are:
Car Charger
Tumble Dryer
I have not yet worked out how to stop the Lux inverter from drawing power from the battery arbitrarily but would like to if any of the pre-set items are running. My logic would be:
If power draw from XXX above 500w then disable batter discharge.
If power draw from XXX below 500w AND 5 mins elapsed then enable batter discharge.
Should be simple enough to automate if the function is available on the inverter. Have you managed to do anything similar?
Unfortunately I can’t help you with that, as I only have Solar & Inverter (no Battery).
I sell back to the grid, & surplus goes into the car. Cost of adding a battery was not logistical compared to the small amount I buy from the grid.
I have managed to find a setting on the inverter which I can use:
To make it work I set that to zero when I don’t want to discharge the batteries, and back to 100 when I do.
I am currently working with Chris to understand how to do that via the lxp-bridge he has created and once working I hope to setup a switch in HA then use that for automation…
Hi,
So I have actually been busy working on this for home and I now have an integration for Lux PowerTek in HA. It’s not perfect but it works, I can send you a link to my Github if you want to take a look.
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If anyone is interested, this is what I’ve done so far.
If you are interested this is an integration I’ve written that is just a simple HA custom integration, it’s all written in python however it simply connects to the IOT device locally on the Lux Inverter and displays it in HA. UPDATE my integration can now update every 20 seconds, anything less than this can actually crash the dongle.
**UPDATE Oct 2023 - I’ve been running this for a few years now and we have got to the stage of getting it incredibly stable with as many sensors I can possibly find of around 185 entities. If you would like access please drop me an email at my username on here @hotmail.com and I will get you setup. PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!
Thanks, that’s really helpful. I want to do the same thing. Ideally I want to set it not to discharge when I am charging the EV on a fast charge when Octopus Go provide cheap electricity between 12:30 and 4:30am.
I’ve found that because I have AC Charge enabled from 00.30 to 04.30 that it will never discharge at those times.
Although in summer I do not expect to use the cheaper Octopus Go power to charge the battery (I’m hoping the Solar will have it charged sufficiently from the day before) I may probably leave that setting enabled anyway just to top up a little. Saves creating an automation.
Yes, Guy has a Python version which is easy to implement into HA.
If you PM him, I’m sure he will point you in the right direction … however he is aware that the latest update to HA is causing an issue atm.
Yes absolutely, Drop me a message and I can add you to my Github page.
I’m keeping it private for now as it’s still got a ton of work being done on it from me and a few other very helpful people but you are welcome to a copy and try it out and give any feedback etc.
