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Next step in my #solar battery journey is to get API access so I can start drawing graphs like this.

The app/website shows how much electricity our home generates, stores, buys, and uses.

Yesterday, for example, we only paid for electricity when cooking. The rest of the day (and night!) we used self-generated power.

I'll use this to work out how much money the battery saves us.
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Thomas Steiner :chrome: 2y ago

nostr:npub19lt4284mghqxekzm6n5njxurnxrxhqhrva2leusdsuu5ja5jeycq66qfjk I wish for EU legislation (sorry, I know, too soon with Brexit) that forces companies who run devices on local networks to open up their protocols, so you can still use/own your devices once the company cloud services close. I can’t connect to my EV charger at all other than through their sucky app (https://gist.github.com/tomayac/754284dd79e20147f482d932ed89f2a1), and my solar panel gateway is accessible locally, but gated on a cloud login (https://github.com/tomayac/enphase-solar).

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Terence Eden 2y ago

nostr:npub13uszupcvaqqnfpvecy2p09fu0w2s0df7f9k86fkjv3lzakygywasau53yp TBH, I think that's a consumer thing. You should have purchased a device which met your needs.

That's why I chose a specific solar inverter - because I knew Fronius had excellent local support.

I could have paid extra for a battery with a direct API - but I'm happy working around that.