Insufficient information

[opastorello]

Describe the bug
Some information is not appearing on the sensors and therefore I cannot integrate it into the panel. Could you please help me?

Screenshots

HA version:
2024.9.3

foxess-ha version:
v0.4

[FozzieUK]

What information do you thing is missing?, many of the sensors provided are dependent on the type and model of inverter that you have, which inverter do you have ?

[opastorello]

What information do you thing is missing?, many of the sensors provided are dependent on the type and model of inverter that you have, which inverter do you have ?

The inverter model is SIW200G M080 W0 from WEG Brasil, but behind it I imagine it is a Huawei

I can't report it on the energy dashboard, the available sensors are zero, for example:

FoxESS - FeedIn has no information, but I can only report it on the dashboard, but FoxESS - FeedIn Power has data, but I can't report it on the energy dashboard.

FoxESS - Solar has no information, but I can only report it on the dashboard, but FoxESS - Solar Power has data, but I can't report it on the energy dashboard.

[FozzieUK]

Ok thanks, with certain solar only inverters the Fox cloud does not provide statistics which is why you are not seeing ‘totals’ being provided - it was discussed here in a previous discussion #260

As you are receiving data from the power sensors you can ‘build’ your own sensors to count the power over time to do the same thing.

If you are familiar with home assistant you would need to add an integral sensor that integrates the power sensor over time i.e. kW is converted to kWh and you would then be able to add them to your energy dashboard.

This for example added to your configuration file would create a sensor called feedin_sum which would then do what you need.

(note you sensor name might be different if you added a ‘name’ to the platform sensor when you set it up)

  - method: left
    name: feedin_sum
    platform: integration
    round: 2
    source: sensor.foxess_feedin_power
    unit_time: h

[opastorello]

Ok thanks, with certain solar only inverters the Fox cloud does not provide statistics which is why you are not seeing ‘totals’ being provided - it was discussed here in a previous discussion #260

As you are receiving data from the power sensors you can ‘build’ your own sensors to count the power over time to do the same thing.

If you are familiar with home assistant you would need to add an integral sensor that integrates the power sensor over time i.e. kW is converted to kWh and you would then be able to add them to your energy dashboard.

This for example added to your configuration file would create a sensor called feedin_sum which would then do what you need.

(note you sensor name might be different if you added a ‘name’ to the platform sensor when you set it up)

  - method: left
    name: feedin_sum
    platform: integration
    round: 2
    source: sensor.foxess_feedin_power
    unit_time: h

Excuse my amateurism but I have tried several ways in the last few days and have not been successful. Could you help me how I can make the dashboard work?

[FozzieUK]

Sure no problem, I can run you through an easier way to setup the sensors you need.

Can I just start by checking what your sensor entity ID’s look like, if you have set a name they will have that as a prefix.

If you lookup the sensor rfreq and click on it to show the graph, then click on the cog in the top right corner -

It will show the sensor config and the 4th line down is the entity ID, in my case it is sensor.foxess_r_freq but it will be different if you added a name in the setup.

Can you confirm your entity ID and i’ll guide you through a simple setup process.

[opastorello]

Thank you very much for helping me, the entity IDs are the same, I did not customize the name.

[FozzieUK]

Go to Settings, Devices & Services, click on Helpers at the top right of the screen

Click 'Create Helper', choose 'Integral Sensor' the only fields you need to fill in are

Name: Feed In Sum

Click 'Left Riemann sum'

Enter the 'Input Sensor' : sensor.foxess_feedin_power

Precision: 2

Click 'Submit' at the bottom.

It will need a few sensor readings to calibrate itself - so wait for around 30 minutes to collect data and you will then have a new sensor called sensor.feed_in_sum which is measured in kWh and will be a total_increasing i.e. it will be a continuously increasing sum.

You can add that to your energy dashboard as your Feed in. To do that go to your Energy dashboard, click the 3 dots in the top right corner and select 'Energy Configuration' and in the 'Return to Grid' add sensor.feed_in_sum.
If you are paid a fixed amount you can add that as a static rate i.e. 0.15 EUR/kWh or you can just leave it for now set to 'I do not get money back' and change it later if needed.

You can then repeat that process for your grid consumption by adding sensor.foxess_grid_consumption_power with a name of Grid Consumption Sum again wait for it to collect data and add that to your energy dashboard in the 'grid consumption' section.

If you have any problems, just give me a shout