Solar Forecasts Homey app using the Solcast API or Forecast.Solar to get solar forecasts customized for your location and installation Links You can download the app here: Solcast Usage You could use the app to switch on electric appliances or charge a car or battery based on the forecast solar p…

Cool and cool app. BTW you can replace the “after sunrise” and “before sunset” conditions with “it is day” (het is overdag).

The app is now in the app store

Hi! How do you use the information in the end, apart from uploading to SolCast and better their predictions? I’ve intrested in getting ideas on how to set charge levels of my ESS battery system depending on what predicted solar levels there is for next day. But when looking into the flows that I ca…

Hi, The app will get following data: At midnight: total forecasted production today total forecasted production next day Every half hour solar power now (W) cumulated solar power next hour cumulated solar power next 2 hours cumulated solar power next 3 hours I use the app to charge my Solare…

Works great :grinning: Sadly Solcast recenlty discontinued tuning the prediction model with your own production values, for accurency validation it’s still working. Is it possible to exclude the power valueu in the energy tab in the homey app? Couting the prediction as usage, effect’s the total u…

Ah I didn’t know that. That’s a bummer. I can change that it doesn’t show up at the energy tab. I will check this week. I can also implement https://forecast.solar/ I will check if I need to make a new app or integrate it into the same app, as a different device.

Okay thanks! Perhaps forecast is a better option, because the Homey Solcast app uses more than 50 updates for me, at the end of the day the API requests are consumed and the homey device is unreachable.

The free forecasts option is less accurate, as the location and pv system is less accurate. I use it on home assistant to compare. But I will try to implement it in the future. It is strange that your api calls are used. The app only polls every half hour between sunrise and sunset + 1 time at m…

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Thanks found it

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