I’m in the process of updating the current Enphase Envoy sensor and am in need of testers.
The main change is to optimize how the sensor is retrieving the inverter data. With the current sensor some have seen timeouts (inverter data not updating) occurring. Usually on the older Enphase Envoy hardware and/or when there are a fair number of inverters connected to the solar system.
All that is needed is HA 0.110.0+.
Replace the homeassistant/components/enphase_envoy/sensor.py with this version and restart HomeAssistant.
I have also added more debug statements as well, so if you have problems with this version of the sensor enable debug logging using for example:
logger:
default: info
logs:
homeassistant.components.enphase_envoy: debug
@kysdaddy My instructions are a bit vague if you are starting from scratch or do not know where to look.
I’ll try to give the steps I take in my production environment. Just be aware some file paths may be different due to system differences. I’m running HA 0.113.x in a docker environment.
Open an ssh/terminal/command line session to your Home Assistant server
Run the command
find / | grep enphase
You’ll get some output but look for the one that contains
homeassistant/components/enphase_envoy
Change to that directory, in my case I run:
cd /usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/enphase_envoy
Then run the below command to remove the sensor that came with Home Assistant
rm sensor.py
Then run the below command to retrieve the updated sensor file:
Restart Home Assistant. I do that through the web interface. Click on the Configuration icon on the left-hand side, click on Server Controls and click on Restart under Server management
Once Home Assistant restarts you will be running with the updated Enphase Envoy sensor.
Now if you have problems and need to debug the sensor, that is when you should edit your configuration.yaml file to include
logger:
default: info
logs:
homeassistant.components.enphase_envoy: debug
If you have any questions let me know and I’ll try and help
That is the same except the actual IP in my config.yaml.
I do not get a response when I try to access the configured IP with a browser. I am connected to my wifi, I use Unifi ap’s I have a WLAN set up specifically for Solar and there is only one client connected to it.
But I continue to get the same error.
The server machine running Home Assistant needs network access to the Enphase Envoy. Not sure what your physical network looks like, but you’ll need to get both your networks to ‘talk’ with each other.
os there anything that needs to be done to the envoy system? The wlan is withing the same ip range, the guest controls are turned off. If I log a laptop or a phone into that wifi, it can reach the rest of my network but still gets "this site cant be reached when trying to access the envoy.
Oh ok that’s good it’s one network. When your laptop is logged into the original WiFi can you ping the envoy device? From the terminal/command line run ping x.x.x.x replace x with the envoy up address
What type of Envoy do you have? Model and Firmware?
No i can not ping the envoy, although when logged into the Solar wlan on my laptop I can ping other machines in my system but the envoy is unreachable no matter which wlan I am connected to.
Here is the information taken from my https://enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/ web portal
I have the IP off my client list in Unifi, when I set this all up, the envoy was/is the only thing that logs into the Solar ssid. My unifi still sees that device as active. Oddly enough the ip scanner that I use does not see the device. But none of the unidentified devices located by the scanner have HTTP access either.
I can see 8 of the 9 entities (missing the inverters for unknown reason)
Any change your latest code corrects this? There is a slight possibility they are not showing up due to the initialization taking place… so I can check back on this in a few hours.
quick update…
Went ahead and updated the sensor.py to your version, here’s relevant info from home-assistant.log
Going to go with notion that since my system is still initalizing, this is why I do not see my inverter entities yet… so will let this stew for a bit (and temp remove the debug flag, this is quiet chatty in the logs).
I have an envoy - but its an older version… Envoy-S-Standard-NA
Software Version 5.0.48
Are you still looking for testers in this area, as I do not believe it has the consumption portion. I am also running HASS OS 4.14 - Home Assistant 0.116.4.
I am using the integration of Envoy and am able to see the microinverters. I do wish there was a way to report when an inverter goes offline/down. I have 2 that are not reporting now, as well as a couple of retired microinverters, but when I look at the data collected, they are all showing energy production which is weird.
With the correct IP ;-), when i browse to the IP i get the envoy webpage and when i append /api/production i see values.
But in HA all most sensors give back 0, and current production 1 / 2.
Another “strange” thing when i define a name, the whole init of the component fails.
