Yeah, if I recall it right the “Suggest feature” was a replacement to the rating system, with popular “requests for help” like: 1 star, crap app, it doesn't work, and no way to reach the nice person who wrote it.
No, the “Thanks” button was a replacement for the reviews. The Suggest a Feature got added later.
I personally also don’t like the Suggest a Feature option, because the only way to reply to those is via email and I don’t want to expose my email address. I would rather have the button lead to the forum topic of the app, which is where I want bugs and feature requests to be reported.
Can you guyz still change anything at the currect test version? Invalid Token: homey:device:cac97fc5-135c-4c89-aaa0-a54dd025457b|battery_charging_state → this variable doesn’t work in advanced flows. I was trying to send it in a message, but get above error code. The ohter variables are working fine
Also the load going to the house doesn’t seem to be available in the variables? (which is displayed in the Solis dashboard on their site)
@Emile @Stefan Het kan toch niet de bedoeling zijn dat deze Solis app uit de handen van community dev"s wordt genomen, om dat een jaar lang bevroren te worden in een halfslachtige staat. Batterij niet zichtbaar tenzij je experimentele versie neemt, flows die niet volledig werken, onvolledige integratie in Energy tab in de Homey app. Doe er wat aan ajb! Geef het terug aan diegene die bereidwillig zijn de app verder te ontwikkelen, of maan Solis aan het te doen. Dank u
eature Request: Add meter_power support for Homey Energy integration
Hi Kim,
First, thanks for the great app — Solis data in Homey works well for real-time monitoring.
Issue: The Solis Inverter device (class: solarpanel) appears correctly as a generator in the Energy live view, but the daily kWh for “Solcellepaneler” shows — kWh in the Energy dashboard.
Root cause: The device reports measure_power (W) and day_energy_capability (kWh) but is missing the standard meter_power capability (cumulative kWh meter) that Homey Energy uses to calculate daily production. The energy field on the device is also null.
The device already has the data available:
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day_energy_capability— today’s production (e.g. 6.9 kWh) -
all_energy_capability— total lifetime production (e.g. 27 229 kWh, monotonically increasing)
Suggested fix: Map all_energy_capability (or a running total) to the standard meter_powercapability, and configure the energy object on the device, e.g.:
json
energy: {
"generator": [{ "id": "meter_power", "approximated": false }]
}
This would make the Solis inverter appear with correct daily kWh in Homey Energy alongside consumption and grid data.
Hi Mats,
The app has been transferred to Solis Nederland (?)(something “official”) a year ago.
Nothing’s changed ever since, such a pity.
Next, I don’t understand at all why apps / app devs need to adjust all kinds of stuff to have devices show up in the Energy tab.
I’d very much like to suggest to use the Power by the Hour community app.
It’s the example for the Energy tab, only it just works fine. Excellent stuff!
Yeah, this is a bit of a bummer.
Hi,
Still no solution available for the homey energy tab not showing the total energy generated the selected day?
thanks
Hello, did you find a way to fix this issue?
Hi all, I do not own the product myself, but for the amount of attention and users here - would it be possible restart the app and a f-finger to Homey?
I have the same issue right now. If you find a solution, please send me also reply.Thank you.
Hi Kim, thank you for a good app! I’m curious, why did you hand the app over to Homey/Solis, did they force you to?
I think the Athom/Homey “principle” of allowing only one app per “brand” is highly unfortunate. Why not instead have a “community app store” where anyone is allowed to publish apps for anything, regardless of if any similar apps exist. That would lead to more and better apps to choose from. I think that could be the problem here if you decide to restart, Athom would simply reject it arguing that an app for Solis already exist? Kind of ironic since you were the one who developed it.
Anyway, I was interested to add functionality to limit the output power, (0-110%) to use when there are negative electricity prices. I tested it with my inverter and it works.
I totally support you to restart the app, and contribute or propose some new functionality. If it would be only available “for test”, that would be totally fine for me.
Hi Johan, and who’s interested:
New development (Modbus enabled datalogger should be in place I presume):
(I just spotted it, can’t test because no Modbus datalogger here)
Well, not me anymore. I solved my problem via Modbus as well. But it would be nice if it were made working via the cloud for people without a Modbus TCP/IP dongle. Modbus TCP/IP only works via the S2-WL-ST dongle.
Agreed. I’ve no itch to buy another €52 datalogger, while it works perfectly fine per SolisCloud API
I think most people running Homey don’t have Home Assistant running alongside it. But it does show that it is possible. I wrote about this somewhere before. The official Homey cloud app is on hold (information from the developer). All necessary information has been sent to Homey/Athom (information from Solis Europe). So what the problem is now, I have no idea. In any case, I have my desired setup running via Modbus. I did update an inverter at my mother’s to an S2-WL-ST. But that was an old device connected to it that didn’t respond well via the Solis iPhone app either.
Hi Johan,
Yea that was just my point: It is possible per cloud connection.
Somehow no one seems interested yet to pour it into a Homey app, which is unfortunate. The “official” Solis cloud inverter app is a joke, no update since Kim handed it over a year ago.
I hope Kim can’t wait to publish his app version again as community app 
Well, that was the first thing Solis told me—that it was possible via the API—when I asked for a Modbus datasheet for the controls. (They only provide it to installers, and you have to sign for it. So you have to search the depths of the internet.)
From January 1, 2027 (that is in less than half a year), we (at least in the Netherlands) will have to deal with negative feed-in tariffs. So, you want to regulate the output power from the inverter back to the consumption in the home. Homey is a perfect platform for that. So, to date, I say it is a missed opportunity.
