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Feature request additional sensor

Open sidmouth opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Is it possible to add sensors for the CT/meter inputs? I feed in from an additional inverter which is shown on the Fox cloud display but not recorded

sidmouth avatar Jan 28 '23 11:01 sidmouth

I had this problem and solved it by creating a second instance (foxess2) to pull the data from the other inverter an F5000. In my case the two inverters each have a string of panels facing in opposite directions so the generation relates to East and West. It was simple to setup production forecasts for each inverter/string in this configuration.

The only issue I am having are the failures of the data feed either because the Foxess web page is not working or problems with the data feed. I will be looking into the comms facilities of the inverters one has an rj45 socket but the other is a serial port for which I don't have a plug.

rjhazeld avatar Feb 27 '23 23:02 rjhazeld

I have created a pull request to add the additional sensor for CT2 which reads the additional inverter input (sensor.foxess_meter2_power) PR #154 , if accepted this will close this feature request.

FozzieUK avatar Apr 13 '23 10:04 FozzieUK

Thanks for this, I have had it running for a few days and am happy to report that it is giving accurate data. So long as the FoxEss portal isn't messed with the data flow is very helpful.

rjhazeld avatar Apr 17 '23 12:04 rjhazeld