AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
Solar Assistant is generally what people are using to feed data to Home Assistant. Since Solar Assistant does work with EG4 products, the answer is yes (as long as you have solar assistant as well).
Eg4 app sucks
- Thread starter grebaba
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True. I just didn't want to pay the price for solar assistant if i didn't have to. lol. Some inverters have integrations that work with home assistant anyways. I am not sure if that isn't the case for EG4 because luxpower is making the inverters so I would think that EG4 would be dependent on them releasing some info maybe to make an integration work with home assistant.
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
For clarity to future readers the inverter in question, EG4 3k, is not made by Luxpower.
Currently Lux is making the 6000XP and 18kPV for EG4.
I'm not certain on the 3k oem.
If any of my info is incorrect please let me know so I can correct it.
I apologize if I got the information wrong.
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
FYI - the OEM for the EG4 3k is Voltronic
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
No need to apologize, just wanted to clarify to help others in the future.
I struggled with the crappy software on a similar inverter years ago when I started my solar journey, it was very frustrating. I bought the SA license and never looked back.
ok. yeah. Thanks. Is that license lifetime and for multiple installs? I probably should read their terms
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
Lifetime on a single pi. You can transfer to new pi.
I use it to communicate with my AIO and batteries.
It was a game changer for me.
oh. so like on a single sd card lifetime.
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
Well not exactly. When you activate the license it is tied to the pi you activate it on. They allow a single transfer only of the license to a different pi. See the FAQ here - https://solar-assistant.io/help/general/faq
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
You can reflash a new SD card any time (I haven’t worn out sny SanDisk Max Endurance cards yet) and can transfer once to a new Pi, so not a problem for another decade.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
AFAICT Solar Assistant works with EG4 hardware, but EG4 hasn’t qualified it yet and is understandably reluctant to do so, as SA can make changes to operating parameters.
Keith Andrews
New Member
Two hours down the drain is no joke. It's great that you found success with the Vitron system instead. Sometimes simplicity wins out over fancy features.
i'm not sure what the reluctance would be on that - if there is any. I talk to people in other forums who are far more tech savvy than me and they make it sound like its not complicated to make things like this work with open source software in general. I don't know.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
If a bug in SA causes a change in a complicated setup (battery charging voltages or grid-tie limits or operating frequency, something that causes more than an inconvenience, something that causes damage) the customer is going to blame EG4 or make a warranty claim. Look how hard it is to get UL9540 across different vendors, you think integration across software vendors is easy? Who would you have pay for the testing and integration?
SA is really nice, and incorporates OSS but is not OSS itself, as it’s a commercial venture.
Drunkin Solar
New Member
Sorry not posted sooner. Just saw this post.
Screenshots attached. The first one shows the phone recognizing the bluetooth signal from the battery (first entry in the list)
The other two show the app not finding a connection.
