homebridge-solaredge-kiosk

A Homebridge plugin to pull SolarEdge solar inverter data from the kiosk page into HomeKit as a light sensor accessory.

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

homebridge-solaredge-kiosk

A SolarEdge Inverter plugin for Homebridge. This plugin is intended to be used with the SolarEdge kiosk page, if for some reason you don't have a proper API key to access their regular API.

This creates a Light Sensor in HomeKit, where the Lux reading is actually the current power generation in Watts.

This is a fork of ecoen66's homebridge-solaredge-inverter plugin. This fork uses the endpoint that powers the SolarEdge kiosk page. That plugin is heavily based on the work of Stog's homebridge-fronius-inverter accessory, and so is this.

Installation

Run these commands:

% sudo npm install -g homebridge
% sudo npm install -g homebridge-solaredge-kiosk

NB: If you install homebridge like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge

Then all subsequent installations must be like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-solaredge-kiosk

Configuration

Example accessory config (needs to be added to the homebridge config.json):

 ...
 "accessories": [
   {
     "name": "SolarEdge Inverter",
     "manufacturer": "SolarEdge",
     "model": "SE10000H-US000BNU4",
     "serial": "myserialno",
     "guid": "longkey",
     "accessory": "SolarEdge Inverter Kiosk"
   }
 ]
 ...

Config Explanation:

Field Description
accessory (required) Must always be "SolarEdge Inverter Kiosk".
name (required) The name you want to use for for the power level widget.
guid (required) The GUID from the URL of your SolarEdge kiosk page.
manufacturer (optional) This shows up in the HomeKit accessory Characteristics.
model (optional) This shows up in the HomeKit accessory Characteristics.
serial (optional) This shows up in the HomeKit accessory Characteristics.