Everybody will have this issue. There is something wrong with the Solcast servers. It is the same for the Home Assistant users.
Let’s just wait and see
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The Solcast API works again.
It works best to get latest data by doing a Midnight update.
@Pieterv123 Thank you for this app. It is really great to have an outlook on solar production. I have a time of use energy tariff with fixed time slots in the day of low and high prices. To be able to load my battery correctly to bridge the high price slots, I would need to be able to forecast my energy production at 5AM for the next 6 hours and at 3PM for the remainder of the day. Is there a way to get the exact forecasted kWh as a tag available in Homey? A kind of “fetch the forecast between starttime and endtime”-card. Would this be possible? Or is it already possible with the cards and tags available and did I overlook it? Or do you see another way to solve my use case?
Thank you in advance!
Yes it is possible.
Check the condition cards. I think solcast has more cards.
And there is a trigger remaining before which has a tag.
Condition cards in homey don’t allow tags, that is a homey limitation
These are the cards I use. You can ask if enough energy is expected to charge your battery. You might find my flow, which I use to manage my batteries, helpful. It is in Dutch. But I think you will figure it out.
if card
And cards
Thanks for reaching out and the help. I need to be able to estimate the production 6 hours in advance to charge the battery in advance to bridge the high price period. No dynamic tariff here that changes every hour but high price blocks from several hours - from 7AM to 11AM and 5PM to 10PM. the problem is not to trigger charging when needed (as with the suggested condition cards) but knowing how much to charge or when to stop. So a tag that gives the prediction of the upcoming 6 to 7 hours would be handy. Now Solcast and Forecast.Solar forecast tags only go up to 3 hours. Is there a way to get this out of the forecast app or to calculate it based on the day forecast or remaining forecast?
Thanks again for your help and consideration.
At the moment, that option isn’t available. We have to ask Pieter for that. But I’ve solved it creatively. Calculate how much your battery still needs to charge. Then use this value in a flow chart. That way, you can charge the battery at full power when insufficient sun is expected, and with the PV surplus when enough is expected.
This part of my flow switches the battery back to charging with PV surplus if more energy is expected than is needed to charge the battery.
Hi @Pieterv123,
Thanks for the suggestion. I overlooked the “remaining Fcst”-tag, so my evening use case is now covered. In the morning a “forecast next 6 hours”-tag would come in handy. Is there a way to foresee this in your app?
Thank you very much indeed.
