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Having just had solar and a battery fitted by Octopus I'm interested - would you mind sharing what you use for automation here please?
by ratherbefuddled 11mo ago
Having just had solar and a battery fitted by Octopus I'm interested - would you mind sharing what you use for automation here please?
- Angostura 11mo agoSure, I use Home Assistant running in a little raspberry pie in the lift. There is an Octopus Integration that exposes current prices (and much else) to HomeAssistant. There is another Integration that works with my solar panels and another that works with my batteries and can change mode (self use, force charge, force discharge etc.) So from there it’s really just a question of setting up some if-then automations to turn on smart switches, charge the batteries if prices go negative. You can also gradually add more nuanced automations like turning on water heaters if the panels are generating more than 1kW and the batteries are over 90% charged. I’m not a programmer, it’s all fairly easy to do.
- ratherbefuddled 11mo agoThank you, that's really useful.
- jon_adler 11mo agoNot op but may I suggest looking at Home Assistant, Octopus Energy Addin and Predbat: https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/energy-rates/ https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/energy-rates/
- ratherbefuddled 11mo agoThanks very much.