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:
This package needs to know the IP address of the inverter. This IP address has to be defined by power_meter_ip_address
into vars
section as show upper.
This package is activated/deactivated with the variable power_meter_activated
. By default, a power meter is deactivated at startup. The activation switch in home assistant determines if the power meter should be started or not.
This power meter can be use in a proxy (a Solar Router only using a power meter). If this power meter is used in a proxy, it is required to activate it at startup by setting power_meter_activated_at_start
to 1
in your yaml in the vars
section defining the power meter configuration :
Network dependency
This power meter require the network to gather information about energy exchanged with the grid.