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ksheumaker / homeassistant-apsystems_ecur

Home Assistant custom component for local querying of APSystems ECU-R Solar System
Apache License 2.0
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Improvement suggestion sent to APS #267

Closed RenaudPerr closed 1 week ago

RenaudPerr commented 1 month ago

Hi all FYI, I have sent this mail to APSystem, hopping they will improve the local web site on ECU-C to read more frequently and easily last Produced/Consumed Power from CT Clamp. Hopping this does not interfere with ksheumaker action plans, otherwise sorry for that. BR

Hello Please forward this mail to the R&D department or Product Improvement department of DS3/ECU-C products.

I am an IT engineer and I have 18 DS3 inverters and an ECU-C with two CT clamps, all supervised by Home Assistant. I can understand that for the DS3 production readings you limit the refresh period to 5 minutes (many inverters connected in Zigbee which is not very quick), but for the clamps I do not see why you do not lower this period to one minute as it is a simple Analog to Digital conversion. This would would allow me/Home Assistant to adjust more quickly my consumption in case of production drop or increase. In addition, it would be good to have in the local APSystem web application in the Advanced/Power page, directly the 9 values :Produced A/B/C, Consumed A/B/C and Imported A/B/C ​​provided by the clamps in addition to the curve. This would allow Home Assistant to simply read these values ​​(by web scraping for example) rather than having to look for the last points in the curves. I hope I have been clear in my requests and that you will respond favorably as part of the continuous improvement of your products and services. Do not hesitate to contact me if necessary. Kind regards

RenaudPerr commented 1 month ago

HI all, Believe me or not, I haven't got any answer from APS despite this message sent 3 times to 3 APS locations worldwide ;-)) Dear @ksheumaker, if you agree with my improvement suggestions and if you have connections with APS staff / research & Dev teams, could you please forward them this message again please? Kind regards Renaud

HAEdwin commented 1 week ago

I do not have connections with APS staff in fact APsystems seems not open at all for suggestions like providing release notes when new firmware is released. I tried in the past but also failed, I hope someday they improve the company policy on this issue.