DeviceID installation before 2024

[horstvogel]

Hello, where I cloud found the deviceID fore a installation before 2024?
Thanks

sensor:
  - platform: foxess
    deviceID: enter_your_inverter_serial_number     -->??
    deviceSN: enter_your_inverter_serial_number
    apiKey: enter_your_personal_api_key

[FozzieUK]

Is this the first time you have used the cloud integration ?, if it is you can use your DeviceSN as the DeviceID - it just has to be unique to your system.

[horstvogel]

Thanks, I've understood that now, or rather I confused it with the API and the device ID. And no API key had been created yet...

now it is working. Thanks

[horstvogel]

now I have the problem that I can not found something like the daily or total yield for the energy dashboard

Daily Generation report (Daily Energy Generated - 'total yield') - every 30 minutes --> I can not found this.

I was using the deviceID in the config, maybe this is the problem?

[horstvogel]

I think there is something wrong with the sensor.

every hour in the night there are 0,1 kWh at xx.25

[FozzieUK]

The DailyGenerationReport provides the total yield of the inverter 'today' and this is found in the sensor _energy_generated.

It is returned directly from the Fox OpenAPI - the report is updated every 30 minutes so in your example above it would also show data at xx:55

The value returned is an increasing sum for the total energy yield for today and so the 0.1kWh you are seeing isn't 0.1kWh every 30 minutes, it is a sum that's value is 0.1kWh and is not increasing - it is not interpreted in any way and comes directly from the data stored in the cloud.

I am wondering if the problem here is that the T series will have gone into standby at dusk, and so there will be no active data being received by it until dawn when it wakes up again - if you look at the foxesscloud website and the 'statistics' graph at the bottom of the oage - what does it show there for the total yield by hour ?

[horstvogel]

I is a H3-6.0-E there is no sensor for total energy yield or daily.

with a battery system.

I found in the dokumentation this, so I think that is my problem. https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha/wiki/Sample-sensors-for-better-solar-monitoring

Thanks.

[horstvogel]

[FozzieUK]

ok yes, my apologies - I have been helping a few people this weekend and getting confused between H and T series users 👍

The small amount of yield is showing there in the cloud data as well so it's just reporting that running total and hopefully those sample sensors will give you what you need. I'll close this for now, but just post and re-open it if you need anything.

[horstvogel]

for my meter i am using this template, for the case the value ist implausible

`template:

• sensor:
  • name: "Zählerstandbezug"
    unique_id: zaehlerstandbezug
    unit_of_measurement: kWh
    state_class: total_increasing
    device_class: energy
    state: >
    {% if states('sensor.bitshake_smartmeterreader_sml_verbrauch_summe') == 'unavailable' or states('sensor.bitshake_smartmeterreader_sml_verbrauch_summe') < '1' %}
    {{ states('sensor.zahlerstandbezug') }}
    {% else %}
    {{ states('sensor.bitshake_smartmeterreader_sml_verbrauch_summe') }}
    {% endif %}
    `

[horstvogel]

Maybe this will help for the accuracy of the data?

https://www.foxesscloud.com/public/i18n/en/OpenApiDocument.html

[FozzieUK]

Great, they have added the battery throughput which tells you how much energy has gone through your batteries, much more reliable than ‘cycles’ and they specify the battery warranty in energy throughput - so this will help with that.

When I get a couple of spare hours next week, i’ll add it and release a new version.

[horstvogel]

Ok, for the wrong value over night with the inverter, this changes will not help?

thanks

so you need still this?

https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha/wiki/Sample-sensors-for-better-solar-monitoring

`

Setup Daily and real-time solar trackers that resolve the negative solar tracking

utility_meter:
daily_pv1_sum:
source: sensor.pv1_sum
cycle: daily

daily_pv2_sum:
    source: sensor.pv2_sum
    cycle: daily`

[FozzieUK]

Yes you’ll still need that to sum the solar power and give you daily figures.

We have asked Fox to add the ‘PV total today’ figure to the OpenAPI but whether they will do that remains to be seen, I think they will be busy for a while working on the performance issues.