Have I set it up correctly?

[daath]

If you haven't seen, I started by setting Grott up completely wrong.

After having found the guide to setting it up and integrating it to HA, I have questions.

I have to inverters. Both talk to Grott and it relays the messages to the growatt servers :) So far so good.

Here is what I have done so far:

I created one instance of Grott in Portainer, running on default port 5279 - it works.
The only environment variables in the container I have set are PUID, PGID and TZ - the rest is set in grott.ini
I have two volumes set: /docker/grott/grott.ini:/app/grott.ini and /docker/grott/grott_ha.py:/app/grott_ha.py
I added the grott_ha extension in grott.ini - from what I can see in the logs, it runs it, so it reads the grott.ini file

Modified my data loggers to talk to Grott - it works

I followed example 2 here: https://github.com/johanmeijer/grott/wiki/Home-Assistant-configuration-examples
as well as the docs here: https://github.com/johanmeijer/grott/tree/master/examples/Home%20Assistent
However, the example is wrong. There is no sensors_grott_eng.yaml - there is an mqtt_grott_eng.yaml and that has to be added differently - it needs to be under "mqtt:" not just "sensor:" ...

When I look in MQTT I can see that it only uses a single topic: energy/growatt - I read here that it should use something like energy/growatt/DEVICEID ...

In the Grott logs, I also see this:

2023-04-20T17:51:18.301916199Z 	 - Grott extension processing started :  grott_ha
2023-04-20T17:51:18.303227606Z 	[Grott HA] 0.0.7-rc6 Can't configure device: XXXXXXXXXX 
2023-04-20T17:51:18.303799172Z 	 - Grott extension processing ended :  7

Where XXXXXXXXXX is the serial for my MIC 3000TL-X inverter.

I did follow the docs and set invtypemap in grott.ini - docs here: https://github.com/johanmeijer/grott/wiki/Multi-Inverter-support

In HA I see 18 entities - nowhere near as many as I expected, and Energy Generated (today/total) is "Unknown" ...

I hope you got through this mess, and that you have some insights for me :)

Oh, and I also put this in my configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  customize_glob:
    sensor.growatt_*_energy*:
      last_reset: '1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00'
      device_class: energy
      state_class: measurement

Thanks in advance!

[daath]

Here is a MQTT message that came from the MIC 3000TL-X inverter (ShineWifi-X):

{ "device": "XXXXXXXXXXX", "time": "2023-04-20T19:36:01", "buffered": "no", "values": { "#recortype": 3124, "pvstatus": 1, "pvpowerin": 2166, "pv1voltage": 2907, "pv1current": 7, "pv1watt": 2166, "pv2voltage": 0, "pv2current": 0, "pv2watt": 0, "pvpowerout": 0, "pvfrequentie": 0, "pvgridvoltage": 2360, "pvgridcurrent": 0, "pvgridpower": 0, "pvgridvoltage2": 0, "pvgridcurrent2": 0, "pvgridpower2": 0, "pvgridvoltage3": 0, "pvgridcurrent3": 13, "pvgridpower3": 3116302336, "totworktime": 1097, "eactoday": 1097, "eactotal": 155, "epvtotal": 4587520, "epv1today": 0, "epv1total": 0, "epv2today": 0, "epv2total": 0, "pvtemperature": 471, "pvipmtemperature": 0, "pvboosttemp": 0, "bat_dsp": 503, "pbusvolt": 3620, "#nbusvolt": 0, "#ipf": 20000, "#realoppercent": 7, "#opfullwatt": 0, "#deratingmode": 0, "eacharge_today": 0, "eacharge_total": 0, "batterytype": 0, "uwsysworkmode": 0, "systemfaultword1": 0, "systemfaultword2": 0, "systemfaultword3": 0, "systemfaultword4": 0, "systemfaultword5": 0, "systemfaultword6": 0, "systemfaultword7": 0, "pdischarge1": 0, "p1charge1": 0, "vbat": 0, "SOC": 0, "pactouserr": 0, "#pactousers": 0, "#pactousert": 0, "pactousertot": 0, "pactogridr": 0, "#pactogrids": 0, "#pactogridt": 0, "pactogridtot": 0, "plocaloadr": 0, "#plocaloads": 0, "#plocaloadt": 0, "plocaloadtot": 0, "#ipm": 0, "#battemp": 0, "spdspstatus": 0, "spbusvolt": 0, "etouser_tod": 0, "etouser_tot": 0, "etogrid_tod": 0, "etogrid_tot": 0, "edischarge1_tod": 0, "edischarge1_tot": 0, "eharge1_tod": 0, "eharge1_tot": 0, "elocalload_tod": 0, "elocalload_tot": 0 } }

[daath]

I mean ... Some of it works ;P This is the SPH3600 inverter:

But no energy produced today/total and no second inverter - the MIC 3000TL-X (which is of course offline now that the sun has set - but it wasn't there in full sun either) ... :/

[daath]

OK, I am closer now - I had this in my docker: ledidobe/grottrpi - I changed it to ledidobe/grottrpi:beta and now I have the topic I expected :P

Let's see tomorrow if my other inverter comes on - and if Energy Dashboard works, and all that other jazz :)

[daath]

OK, everything more or less works. Had I only known to add ":beta" to my docker image, many hours could have been saved 🤣

[johanmeijer]

Sorry for that. I will promote the beta to the latest soon.......

[daath]

No worries :) Works well! Only thing I can't figure out is how to get the battery SoC ... :)