Has anyone integrated GivEnergy equipment in to Home Assistant?
I have a friend that uses Home Assistant installed on a Raspberry pi to monitor and control all elements of a mixed solar/battery/EV installation. It seems like a great way to have a overview but also seems suitable to provide additional control.
Yes, lots of us have.
If you’re a beginner to all this, the videos by Speak to the Geek (YouTube channel) are a good place to start.
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100% yes…
I have 2 solar arrays… 1 Givenergy + Batteries, and the other an older Solis installation… Home assistant monitors it all.
My Givenergy stuff was only installed 4 weeks ago and I have 2 x 9KW batteries installed on the outside of the house… what was really simple to do was setup an automation that monitors the temperature of the batteries and if it gets 2 cold I installed heating pipes below them that turn on.
Home automation is the way forward - and also the information you get in 1 dashboard is awesome !!!
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Hi yah, I know this is an old post, but just incase you wanted to share or go down the HA and Predbat route (I have just done this), here are a few links to get you started.
Then join this group
Hi Dave. Fellow predbat user here. Your links didn’t work for me unfortunately. Could you repost them?
(I went down the predbat route as I found the octopus givenergy automation rubbish. I’m now with tomato and I’m really happy with predbat running my battery. Apart from yesterday when it stopped and it turned out an update meant predbat needed a key to communicate with home assistant, that it didn’t need before).
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Hi yah, I just tested the links and they all work. They take you to the GE Thread which is different to the GE community-beta thread.
Try this one to the main thread.
https://community.givenergy.cloud/d/4954-how-to-use-predbat-from-scratch/171