NugentS Posted March 2 Posted March 2 All, My Setup: 4KWp with SunnyBoy TL4000 (nice FIT) 4+KWp on a Solis Inverter (no FIT) 2 * Luxpower Battery Inverters in a (non PC) Master/Slave arrangement with 2 stacks of 8 batteries from Pylontech (of various capacity - mostly 2KWh, but some 5Kwh - totalling 30+KWh Zappi 2.1 for charging the electric car Intelligent Octopus Go Home Assistant UK Based The problem I have is that Luxpower do not allow access to any form of API (that I have found)- so home automation is out. (I have the later dongles that are substantially more secure). As a consequence the Intelligent part of IOG is sort of disabled as otherwise the car charging can drain the house batteries - which is just silly. I would however like to take more advantage of IOG - but thats not going to happen with my luxpower inverters as I cannot tell them via HA wether to charge or discharge The batteries are in my garage, a seperate garage with a large armoured cable between the buildings. The main electricity board is in the house and I haven't had that much luck with extending CT Clamps via Cat5e cabling for some reason. The batteries cannot be connected to the Solar Inverters for physical and FIT reasons The Luxpower Inverters provide me with EPS power to a couple of points in the garage (Freezer etc) in case of a powercut. I have explored providing whole house backup in the event of a power cut - but this turned out to be financially non-viable So I thought - maybe I should just replace the battery inverters with something different that work with Home Assistant (I do realise that this may not be fiscally responsible - which may kill this idea dead). Does anyone have any reccomendations for replacing the Luxpower Inverters with ones that will work with my batteries and work with Home Assistant?
Dillsue Posted March 5 Posted March 5 On 03/03/2025 at 00:33, NugentS said: The batteries cannot be connected to the Solar Inverters for physical and FIT reasons The FIT rules changed a few years ago and aren't necessarily a blocker to batteries. Physical constraints may but not FIT
gmarshall Posted March 5 Posted March 5 I have a solis battery inverter using Fogstar rack batteries that mostly plays nicely with home assistant- similar setup to you with a zappi and other solar (enphase and growatt). Our batteries are also in the garage and the solis uses a separate meter to run the CT clamp on the meter tail. I ran this between the inverter and meter with cat 5 with no issues.
JohnMo Posted March 5 Posted March 5 GivEnergy give you full API access. Does work inside home assistant.
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