How much solar/grid/battery power? about esphome-pipsolar HOT 7 CLOSED

As far I read the protocol document, I never seen such information available. Once can substract the . ac_output_active_power with the (PV_power + battering_charging) but it won't be super accurate.

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Yeah, but my problem is that I don't get any info from pv_charging_power. It's always 0W. I don't have batteries in my system yet, but I don't think this is the issue. My EAsun inverter has an app which shows how much power I get from the panels. In my app, this metric is called pv1 charging power so maybe it's a name mismatch. Same with pv_input_voltage, in the app is called pv1 input voltage.
Looking at the pull requests I see this might be addressed in the future so I am looking forward to test this:
https://github.com/syssi/esphome-pipsolar/pull/10/files#diff-dbc81de7d9fb76af6e67b9c8b02f69c8ea7f35b243a2898f26520c759e0d7b6dR142

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Yes on the PIP8048 wtih two strings pv_charging_power is replace with pv1_charging_power etc....
maybe you can use the pip8048 branch to test with your easun.

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It may be helpful to note, the voltronic PV power cuts off its input power if the batteries are full or reached your float / bulk voltage setting. I have perfect sunny day, but you can see from the chart when I reached full charge state the blue line PV input current drops off. The purple is my battery discharge current out.

Looking at PV power curve

If you read the binary sensor ac_charging_status: and its status is on, then maybe that can deduce how often the AC is being used. I use an external energy monitoring plug for the AC in, and AC out of the inverter that I can then do that subtraction independent of the inverter.

Does the Easun app show power with that string variable PV1. . ...? or is it also 0W?

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@bogdanr Could you try to use the feature branch:

external_components:
  - source: github://syssi/esphome-pipsolar@pip8048
    refresh: 0s

And update/change your config yaml a bit: https://github.com/syssi/esphome-pipsolar/pull/10/files#diff-dbc81de7d9fb76af6e67b9c8b02f69c8ea7f35b243a2898f26520c759e0d7b6dL122-R145

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Wouldn't the answer be in implementing QET/QED/QEY and rest of them? This would allow you to see how much PV actually generated and used, and then rest of it was used from the grid....

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I shorted my inverter and it took a while to get parts to fix it.
I confirm the changes from branch PIP8048 improve things. I now have a sensor for looking at the solar production (pv1_charging_power).
I can also see a battery_discharge_current sensor but I am missing a sensor which shows charging current.
I suggest you merge this pull request.

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