Use excess Solar to run your pool pump (Node-Red & Home Assistant)
Use excess Solar to run your pool pump (Node-Red & Home Assistant)
I recently had solar panels installed and opted to use a SolarEdge hybrid inverter should batteries ever become worth installing (A savings of about $2.50 per day on electricity costs means they are very much not worth it yet). This system has the ability to hook up via Modbus over TCP to pull vario...
I am in the process of building this in my system. I want to add a couple of extra features. such as minimum run time, the ability to run a few minutes each hour over night (for skimming) and some other bits an pieces.
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I did something like this. I buy my electricity at wholesale prices, and the supplier has an API with price predictions, so I used node-red to compare insolation forecasts, and price forecasts to work out what time-blocks to run the pool pump (when solar high, or price low, or cheapest forecast times to achieve a minimum number of hours per day).
Not quite the same as home automation, but there's a home-made renewable energy system community too:
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Are you using Amber Electric? Would you be willing to share your Node-Red flows? I’m trying to come up with some automation for the car charger based on price predictions but it’s been doing my head in…
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Sure, I’ll share them today.
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Do you have a solar system?
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Not yet. The plan is to get solar and battery but the installers I’ve spoken to have been somewhat unhelpful. For now we’re just on the wholesale pricing.
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Lemmy.world seems to be groaning under the load of new users. Did you get my DM with the first flow? It never confirmed that it sent.
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No DM yet! In fact I can only see this comment in my Inbox, not in the main discussion thread. Teething trouble!
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