So while I wait on all my goodies to arrive Wednesday, I dove back down the Solar Assistant rabbit hole. I realize the stock wifi dongle/app from EG4/Luxpower is much improved for the 6000XP inverter, but from my reading on here, I'd like to confirm something:
If I wanted to move the core monitoring functions to Home Assistant (running on my Synology), it sounds like I'll still need to purchase Solar Assistant and a pi so it would be the gateway into the inverter via MQTT? If this is true, does that also include battery monitoring/stats via wifi?
How I imagine the setup:
6000XP -> EG4 wifi dongle -> EG4's app for updates/firmware -> Solar Assistant via Wifi -> Home Assistant via MQTT from SA.
Originally I figured I'd be fine with using EG4's bundled app (it does look plenty robust), but since I like to tinker I know eventually I'll get bored and want to build a custom interface via Home Assistant for a nice tablet/stats setup on a cheapo Amazon fire tablet or something.
It sounds like with the stuff included with my 6000XP, all I really need to do is buy a Solar Assistant Pi bundle and I'd have everything I need.
If I wanted to move the core monitoring functions to Home Assistant (running on my Synology), it sounds like I'll still need to purchase Solar Assistant and a pi so it would be the gateway into the inverter via MQTT? If this is true, does that also include battery monitoring/stats via wifi?
How I imagine the setup:
6000XP -> EG4 wifi dongle -> EG4's app for updates/firmware -> Solar Assistant via Wifi -> Home Assistant via MQTT from SA.
Originally I figured I'd be fine with using EG4's bundled app (it does look plenty robust), but since I like to tinker I know eventually I'll get bored and want to build a custom interface via Home Assistant for a nice tablet/stats setup on a cheapo Amazon fire tablet or something.
It sounds like with the stuff included with my 6000XP, all I really need to do is buy a Solar Assistant Pi bundle and I'd have everything I need.