Only absolute URLs are supported about homebridge-solax HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Vinny,
Thanks for taking the time to try it out.
For your configuration, what is your Inverter Address set to?

For the address, it should just be IP address/hostname with no trailing slash etc.
E.g. http://192.168.xxx.xxx

Hopefully that's all it is.

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Hi TroygNZ

Silly me, i did not include "http://", i only had in the IP address.

now that i have entered it in the correct format "http://192.168.xxx.xxx" - it works "yay!!"

thanks mate, fantastic plug in.

I have not played around, but im wondering, can this support more than 1 inverter at a time?

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Ah that's good to hear.
Ideally there should be validation on the config form, ensuring a well-formed URL. But I had to remove some of it due to a bug/change in behavior in the homebridge validation for hostnames. But I could look at adding regex based validation in future.

At the moment it won't support more than one inverter sorry. In an ideal world if it did support multiple inverters, would it surface the values as sums across all the inverters, or surface them individually, or combination of both approaches?

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the system that i have comprises of a 2 x 5kw inverters and i refer to it as a whole system. So a sum across all inverters would be fantastic. (i could also see benefits for scenario's that would be a combination of individual and combined).

cheers

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Good to know, cheers.
I can't promise anything, but may look at knocking something up.

In the interim, if the inverters are setup with similar orientation (e.g. All west facing). you could make decisions based on the one inverter, to crudely extrapolate out. Well for total produced anways.
For example, if Inverter 1 was ~5kw, western facing, and Inverter 2 was 4kw western facing. If Inverter 1 is producing 2.5kw, then you could probably assume Inverter 2 is producing ~2kw.

Though for how power export or consumption is divied up, I'm not sure how multiple inverters work.. Does consumption across the house get shared evenly, or proportionally between the two, or is one consumed to it's entirity on one unit before it starts to consume the other inverters excess for example. But based on your observations using the Solax Portal, you may be able to work out how it's done, and extrapolate out still, to make some smart decisions.

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