Noob question: why does "solar" stay empty

[Eternity]

Here is my Energy tab on my phone:

It does not show a value for solar energy generated by my PV panels.

But I do have an inverter and it is generating energy:

I checked setting, but have no idea how to include the Solis generation in the Energy settings.

What am I missing here?

Thanks!

[RonnyW]

@Eternity

What am I missing here?

Does your solar device provide a meter_power capability? This is needed to get the kWh data.

[Eternity]

@RonnyW

Does your solar device provide a meter_power capability? This is needed to get the kWh data.

Thanks!

Seems it doesn’t:

I have contacted the developer @Kim_Kokholm via his App page.

[RonnyW]

If the inverter does not provide a power meter, you can use the PowerByTheHour app instead.

[Eternity]

I have PBTH installed and it is already linked to the PV Inverter. How do I link PBTH to Solar in the Energy tab?

[RonnyW]

It must have “solarpanel” as device class. Don’t know if PBTH allows to change device class.

[Kim_Kokholm]

New version is out for testing.

[Kim_Kokholm]

BTW! Do you also get suggestion in the “Power ups” section regarding “energy dongle” and “where to buy solarpanels” EVEN when you have Solar-panels and a Energy Dongle already installed

[Eternity]

Thanks @Kim_Kokholm

Installed the new version
Removed the device
Re added the inverter
Device works

Unfortunately, not reporting in Energy:

[Eternity]

@Kim_Kokholm

TW! Do you also get suggestion in the “Power ups” section regarding “energy dongle” and “where to buy solarpanels” EVEN when you have Solar-panels and a Energy Dongle already installed

Yes I do!

[Eternity]

Perhaps a repost (lost the other one)

In the Energy tab I do see a yellow animation showing power from the PV panels into the house.

It doesn’t show in the value a bit higher in the Energy tab. Perhaps tomorrow once net power is registered.

Thanks for the swift response!

[Kim_Kokholm]

I have no solution for this. I’ve tried switching from a borrowed account and my own solar (not solis) and its kinda bugged for me.
Maybe it will settle…

[Eternity]

Thanks for the effort!

[Peter_Kawa]

Afaik the daily value doesn’t show right away, but starts showing the next day. It has to calc a daily use value first.
Something like that. I’ve read it somewhere at the forum

[Eternity]

Patience is not one of my strengths

The graph shows PV production, but I bet still some calculation is happening under the hood.

Let’s see what happens the next weeks.

[Hass]

Hello,

I used to have a similar issue with my solars, but probably for other reasons than you.

I resolved it by doing the following:

1. Create a Virtual device with device class Solar panel (I named it Solceller)
2. Added a Power by the Hour app for the virtual device called Solceller.
3. Created a flow when PV input changes from my original solar app (Growatt + Modbus TCP), it pushes currentsPV W to measure_power and todays kWh use from PBTH to meter_power.

This workaround has worked well for me, hope it can be useful for you as well.

[Eternity]

Interesting!

Will try that tomorrow!

[Eternity]

Tried your suggestion @Hass

Added the VD (ZD - AVD 13):

and set the capability as “Solar panel”.

Next step was adding the PBTH device, that was not a problem. However, it does not show the created VD to be added as source:

What am I doing wrong here?

[Hass]

Ah sorry, the app I use is Virtual devices.

You can do the following after installing the app:

1. Create a Device.
2. Add name and image.
3. Select device class as Solar Panel.
4. Add both Power meter and Power.
5. Add a PBTH device with Energy summary for the device you just created.
6. Change the settings for the PBTH device to have source as Watt.
7. Create a flow similar to my last post to update the Power and Meter power values and you should be ready to go.

[Eternity]

Thank you for the extra information! Really useful!

I now see a value in the Energy tab (albeit still zero).

Guess it will update soon.