Thursday, 19th September, 2024

Solar is all installed and online. Got the data into home assistant, which is nice as it shows more details than the app. Particularly of note is the string power, as we have two sets of panels facing different directions. The charts are a bit odd but I’ll gather some more days to see what happens. I’m not convinced the installer installed the optimisers but I could be wrong. Also I’m sure they were going to install bird netting too. However, we generate quite a lot, even for September. Need to get export meter sorted and then swap tariffs.

The Home Assistant integration has so many things. I could so all sorts. However, I don’t know what to do and have done nothing. And possibly will do nothing other than gather data and make a nice dashboard.

Actually I would like a dashboard to see what’s going on, the defaults are hard to see what is happening. That’s not too complex so I can probably manage it.

Took some working from home liberties and went out to a summit this morning and worked later. It was absolutely glorious weather. I was 721m above sea level and there was no wind, and perfect blue skies all around. Scraped by with my 4 2m contacts but that’s enough so that’ll do. I had to be back for a meeting, although it was 30 minutes later than I thought. However, that was good as gave me time for a cup of tea and get sorted out.