Proxy Client Power Meter¶

A proxy client is designed to get the power meter values from an other component. This component could be a dedicated device such as an ESP8266 running only one power meter package (See proxy architecture) or it can be another solar router runing a power meter reading the real power exchanged with the grid (See multiple solar router architecture).

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

packages:
  power_meter:
    url: https://github.com/XavierBerger/Solar-Router-for-ESPHome/
    files:
      - path: solar_router/power_meter_proxy.yaml
        vars:
          power_meter_ip_address: "192.168.1.30"

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 integration is activated/deactivated with a global variable power_meter_activated. This variable can be modified by a switch inside Home Assistant.

Network dependency

This power meter require the network to gather information about energy exchanged with the grid.