Adaptions to the SolisCloud2PVOutput solution and configuration to support variations in use (R1.13.0) - 22 Jun 2023
Because I see some forks or local adaptions for people wanting a slightly different behavior, I made some adaptions to the SolisCloud2PVOutput solution and configuration to capture (some of) those variations. Now the following is possible:
- made it possible to have the config files not in the current directory, but just use the directory where the python script is located
- use AC voltage instead of DC Voltage for the PVOutput Voltage field (setting pvoutput_fill_voltage_with_ac_voltage)
- do NOT send the inverter temperature to PVOutput (setting pvoutput_fill_temperature_with_inverter_temperature)
- extra values possible to send to Domoticz (see above), when domot_[name]_id is 0, it will NOT be send to domoticz
- instead of misusing the PVOutput PowerConsumption field for the AC voltage, you can also use FamilyLoadPower or HomeConsumption (setting pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_familyloadpower, pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_homeconsumption, pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_ac_voltage)
Note 1: for the last bullet, you need to have a Solis Consumption Monitoring solution installed, also supported is a Solis hybrid inverter with battery storage.
Note 2: make sure that you move send_to_pvoutput setting to the [PVOutput] section, if you have an already existing configuration.
Change in soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg the following lines with your above obtained secrets and domoticz configuration, including if you want to send to PVOutput, Domoticz or both. By default only output is send to PVOutput:
[api_secrets]
soliscloud_api_id = 1300386381123456789
soliscloud_api_secret = 304abf2bd8a44242913d704123456789
soliscloud_api_url = https://www.soliscloud.com:13333
soliscloud_inverter_index = 0
pvoutput_api_key = 0f2dd8190d00369ec893b059034dde1123456789
pvoutput_system_id = 12345
[PVOutput]
send_to_pvoutput = True
pvoutput_fill_temperature_with_inverter_temperature = True
pvoutput_fill_voltage_with_ac_voltage = False
pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_familyloadpower = False
pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_homeconsumption = False
pvoutput_fill_power_consumption_with_ac_voltage = True
[Domoticz]
send_to_domoticz = False
domot_url = http://192.168.0.222:8081
domot_power_generated_id = 0
domot_ac_volt_id = 0
domot_inverter_temp_id = 0
domot_volt_id = 0
domot_solarpower_id = 0
domot_energygeneration_id = 0
domot_batterypower_id = 0
domot_gridpower_id = 0
domot_familyloadpower_id = 0
domot_homeconsumption_id = 0
I encounter that SolisCloud returned data without error, but the data was not filled correctly. As a result an exception occurred and the program exited. Fortunately I noticed it, so I could start the script the same day again.
Added a try/catch and when such an exception occurs, wait one minute and try again.
Also renamed some variables for better readability.
Added support for multiple inverters (R1.11.0) - 12 May 2023
See this discussion.
Added configuration item (make sure to add this new configuration item to soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg if you have an existing configuration) :
- soliscloud_inverter_index = 0
Added below information about multiple inverters to the README.md.
Domoticz is a very light weight home automation system that lets you monitor and configure miscellaneous devices, including lights, switches, various sensors/meters like temperature, rainfall, wind, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, electricity usage/production, gas consumption, water consumption and many more. Notifications/alerts can be sent to any mobile device.
If you want to know how to configure in Domoticz your inverter, see this discussion.
Make 2 PVOutput accounts (you need 2 email addresses) for each inverter a separate PVOutput account. Make sure to configure the PVOutput accounts and get the PVOutput API keys.
The solution is to have 2 scripts running in different directories (one for each inverter) and for the each directory you do modifications, e.g. the configuration to get the appropriate inverter and send the output to a appropriate PVOutput account as target.
Create two directories, copy the SolisCloud2PVOutput files to each directory and configure in each directory soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg:
- solis
- solis2
In solis2 directory you change the following:
- modify soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg to point the second PVOutput account secrets and change the soliscloud_inverter_index to 1 (to get the data of the second inverter)
- rename solis.sh to solis2.sh and modify solis2.sh to go to directory solis2 (line 9: cd ~/solis2)
Have two cronrabs running (for solis.sh and solis2.sh)
if you also want the combined data of the two inverters, use a third PVOutput account (yet another email address) and use my python tool CombinePVOutputSystems.
Fixed DOMOTICZ Volt value (R1.10.0) - 08 May 2023
minor domoticz fixes/defaults (R1.9.1) - 07 May 2023
- Check for DOMOTICZ_POWER_GENERATED_ID not zero
- Default domoticz id's are zero (so id is not send)
Added option to send to pvoutput and/or to domoticz. Please make sure to add and configure new configuration lines to soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg if you had already installed SolisCloud2PVOuptup before:
- send_to_pvoutput = True
- [Domoticz]
- send_to_domoticz = False
- domot_url = http://192.168.0.222:8081
- domot_power_generated_id = 214
- domot_ac_volt_id = 215
- domot_inverter_temp_id = 0
- domot_volt_id = 0
Last Pull Request there was an error in the logging call on line 109: loggging
Fixed error and also solved warnings.
Externalise the basic logging configuration. #16
Changed from API1.1.1 to API1.2 (R.16.0) - 29 Nov 2022
Changed from API1.1.1 to API1.2 (SolisCloud has fixed typos in method names)
Fix socket.timeout issue #8 (R1.5.0) - 18 Sep 2022
Fix for issue #8
- catch socket.timeout and any other exception
- increase timeout from 10 to 30 (seconds)
- AC voltage is max of 3 phases, so it works for 3 phase systems and 1 phase system
- fixed high resolution watt no longer used (bug slipped in previous release)
- Added inverter temperature for PVOutput Temperature column (instead of outside temperature, you can still overrule with weather device)
- Added AC Voltage for Power Used column (assuming 1 phase system, used "Power Consumption" field, so read "AC Volt" for the "Power Used" column of PVOutput and ignore "Energy Used" column)
Small improvements, increased retries to 30 (minutes) instead of 10 (minutes)
Change your API SECRETS in the configuration file "soliscloud_to_pvoutput.cfg". This way a new python script will not overwrite your API SECRETS.
First release (R1.0.0) - 05 Aug 2022
- added TODAY constant as yyyymmdd to compute it only once
- added inverter temperature and AC volt logging
- made pylint compliant
- make flake8 and black linters compliant
- improved readme
- small fixes
- moved sys.exit earlier
- exit outside 5-23 hours and small script improvements