Fronius Power Meter¶

This power meter is designed to work with Fronius Smart Meter in conjunction with a Fronius Inverter.

Fronius is providing an Open Inteface named Fronius Solar API which is allowing the quiery the inverter and locally get data.

To use this package, add the following lines to your configuration file:

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packages:
  power_meter:
    url: https://github.com/XavierBerger/Solar-Router-for-ESPHome/
    file: solar_router/power_meter_fronius.yaml

This package needs to know the IP address of the inverter. This IP address has to be defined by power_meter_ip_address into subtsitution section of your configuration as in example ballow:

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substitutions:
  # Power meter source -----------------------------------------------------------
  # Define ip address of Fronius inverter
  power_meter_ip_address: "192.168.1.21"

This package is activated/deactivated with a global variable power_meter_activated. By default a power meter is deactivated at start. The activation switch determines if power meter has to be started or not.

If this power meter is use inside a proxy it is required to activated in at start by setting power_meter_activated_at_start to 1 into you configuration yaml as in the example bellow:

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substitutions:
  power_meter_activated_at_start: "1"