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:

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packages:
  power_meter:
    url: http://github.com/XavierBerger/ESPHome-Solar-Router/
    file: solar_router/power_meter_proxy.yaml

This integration needs to know the IP address of the power meter proxy. This IP address has to be defined into power_meter_ip_address into subtsitutions section of your configuration as in example bellow:

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

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