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Solar energy in Home Assistant
(lemmy.world)
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I have enphase inverters as well. I don't find their data to be useful.
I went the route of installing two circuit setup boards running esp8266. One is installed in the subpanel in the garage where the solar feeds, the other is installed at the main panel on the main cables before any loads.
This way I can more accurately see production and usage. And can tell during production how much I'm actually utilizing before sending residual back to grid.
If I had only one panel and the solar fed directly into it, I'd use one of the 6 channel circuitsetup boards instead to monitor both solar feed and main.