SolarLog: how to use PV energy yield as Sensor for "Solar Collectors" (won't show up)

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Hi,
does anybody have an idea on how to set up the available sensor data from a SolarLog

  • sensor.solarlog_yield_day
    to be used in the Energy-configuration “Solar Yield” as an energy source?

Thanks,
Axel

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What are the attributes of the sensor?

For sensors to be used in the Energy dashboard they should be measuring (k)Wh and have a
state_class: total_increasing

You can use Customize to add this if it is missing.

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Thanks, Tom.

The current config is listed as:

  1. state_class: total
  2. unit_of_measurement: kWh
  3. icon: mdi:solar-power
  4. friendly_name: solarlog yield total

Apparently I’m unable to find (on the Virtual Machine Web-UI) the relevant file or config to change according your proposal.
File Editor is in place but, configuration.yaml looks “default” to me.

Maybe you can help me on this as well.

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Anyone else who an be of help on how to set this in the GUI?

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It can’t be set using the GUI. Follow the instructions in the link. Specifically:

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/customizing-devices/#manual-customization

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Ok, added this customization to the config, system has updated accordingly.
Anyhow, the requested entity was not showing up. I added

  • sensor.solarlog_yield_total:
  • device-class: energy

and will see what will happen.

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Well apparently the SolarLog sensor still won’t show up at the SOLAR Collectors / Solar Production dropdown in the Energy settings.

Fun Fact: my Shelly Plug and Shelly 2.5 DO show up. As they are only consuming, not a real help :wink:

Is there any further tag or attribute that will do the miracle?

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Please copy and paste the attributes you now have frim the developer-tool/states page

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Sure:

This is what PV generates:
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: W
icon: mdi:solar-power
friendly_name: solarlog power AC

This is what my house consumes in total:
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
friendly_name: solarlog consumption AC

This is what’s being fed or pulled to/from the grid:
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: W
device_class: power
icon: mdi:solar-power
friendly_name: solarlog power available

I also tried the SolarLOG manual integration as posted above. Nevertheless, the sensors can’t be integrated into the Energy Dash, stating that “statistics not defined” and “entity not available”.

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Those are all power sensors. It’s not the power dashboard. It’s the energy dashboard, for which you need energy sensors.

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Hi tom, apart from the pasted information from the developer-tool/states page, I added following integration to my config.yaml:

Results as shown above.