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jmcollin78 / solar_optimizer

The Solar Optimizer integration for Home Assistant starts and stops your equipments depending on the Solar net production
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Setup without typical energy buy and sell prices #20

Closed Xitee1 closed 6 months ago

Xitee1 commented 6 months ago

Why are the energy buy and sell prices required? In my case I don't have a typical energy buy and sell situation. Instead we have a contract that gives us a specific amount of free kWh per year from the grid that we can use without paying anything. Only after this free limit has been exceeded, we have to pay. If we use less than the free amount we get paid back the unused kWh. On the other side we get nothing out of the exported energy (only a few cents per month because of some regulations).

With what values should I set up the integration?

jmcollin78 commented 6 months ago

They are required because their are part of the cost function which have to be minimized. If you don't have, just put an input_number with 1. It have an effect only if the difference between sell and buy cost is important or if you have a many Watt installed.

jmcollin78 commented 6 months ago

Note: this should be more a discussion and not an issue.

Xitee1 commented 6 months ago

Thank for the info. I'll set them to 1 then.

I know that this should be rather an discussion instead of an issue, but it seems like you haven't enabled discussions yet.

jmcollin78 commented 6 months ago

like you haven't enabled discussions yet.

yes. Indeed. I will fix that immediatly