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Feature request additional sensor #114

Open sidmouth opened 1 year ago

sidmouth commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to add sensors for the CT/meter inputs? I feed in from an additional inverter which is shown on the Fox cloud display but not recorded

rjhazeld commented 1 year ago

I had this problem and solved it by creating a second instance (foxess2) to pull the data from the other inverter an F5000. In my case the two inverters each have a string of panels facing in opposite directions so the generation relates to East and West. It was simple to setup production forecasts for each inverter/string in this configuration.

The only issue I am having are the failures of the data feed either because the Foxess web page is not working or problems with the data feed. I will be looking into the comms facilities of the inverters one has an rj45 socket but the other is a serial port for which I don't have a plug.

FozzieUK commented 1 year ago

I have created a pull request to add the additional sensor for CT2 which reads the additional inverter input (sensor.foxess_meter2_power) PR #154 , if accepted this will close this feature request.

rjhazeld commented 1 year ago

Thanks for this, I have had it running for a few days and am happy to report that it is giving accurate data. So long as the FoxEss portal isn't messed with the data flow is very helpful.