GivEnergy and the Home Assistant Energy Dashboard 

Looks like im having the same issue. I cant see s field to add a kWh value. Any suggestions please?

@@philstockton6865 leave it for a few hours for some data to come in, then it can be changed after that.

Glad it helped!

Totally agree! However, I am not on those tariffs so it's tricky to do. I am planning an Intelligent Octopus one with the help of a friend, but switching to Flux or Cosy in order to figure out instructions would be quite costly. I'm not saying impossible, but it's a difficult one to plan and test for me.

Cheeky request. Aside from monitoring, what functionality do you get/lose with this setup if the Internet is down/disconnected? I guess monitoring is good. But how about changing behaviour? Battery charging hours from grid, % behaviour etc. Thank you !

In theory it is all manageable by changing the setting in GivTCP. I personally set the charge times using the portal still because it’s an easier user interface, but I know of people scheduling everything with a click in Home Assistant that runs a script/automation to set everything up as needed. I don’t *think* you lose anything other that perhaps your sanity learning Home Assistant

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech thank you so much. I'm happy with a little scripting pain :D

There's no way that I know of to make the circles larger on the power flow cards, you would either need to contact the developers to request the feature, or delve into the murky world of css-mod and see if you can maybe reduce the font sizes. The latter option is likely to take many hours of messing about from past experience!

Thanks for your speedy reply, that all sounds far beyond my very limited ability so I shall live with it. your vids are invaluable, thanks so much@@SpeakToTheGeekTech

:) I have another energy dashboard video being released soon that covers all sorts of Octopus tariffs.

You'll need to recreate the utility meter helpers with a different name, perhaps use the cumulative energy sensors as the source instead of daily sensors as the source? I've seen a few quirks where you have to fiddle to find something Home Assistant likes.

Sadly the energy dashboard doesn't (yet) support custom co2 entities which is a shame. Hopefully it's something they'll change soon.

As in when your battery charges, it shows hanging down on the energy graph possibly in a pink colour? Yes that's normal, that's battery energy in. Grid export also shows negatively like that.

Yes just like that, thanks for the reply - just seemed a bit odd to me

So you've created a separate Utility Meter helper from the GivTCP import energy sensor and that's the one you're attempting to use in the energy dashboard? I ask only because you've used the word 'GivTCP' in the helper name so wanted to be certain. Have you confirmed that both the source GivTCP sensor and the Utility Meter it is wrapped in are populating with data?

I really appreciate your reply. I've no data being populated so something is very wrong! I'm wondering if I should uninstall GivTCP and start again. I've got some screenshots and a log with errors that I don't understand but obviously can't attach these. As you will see I am very much a novice at this! Thanks again!

Try the GivTCP Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/615579009972782) where you can share all the logs and screenshots you think are relevant.

Thanks for this! I've applied to join the group and will add the screenshots and logs when accepted. Cheers!

I've just approved your request. I may not be able to help fix this but there are hundreds of others in the group now so I'm sure someone will have some suggestions!

Yup you need either the forecast.solar or Solcast integrations configuring and then you schedule an automation to run at a specific time to check the tomorrow forecast value and call the notify service of it’s below a particular value. Lots of different components there to get working separately first though before you bring them all together in an automation

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I’ll have a play. Although I might need to check my HA as the solar forecast doesn’t always seem to agree with the givenergy one

Yup, latest GivTCP works fine, video coming very soon though!

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech Fantastic, I eagerly await it :) Keep up the good work my good fellow :)

The older generation inverters only have one charge slot per day. I think that the newer ones have the capacity for multiple charge slots, but you would need to check with GivEnergy support as it's not in the GUI by default. Home Assistant would definitely be an option, but you could also use Octopus R&D labs with your Cosy tariff to automate your battery if you wanted an easy solution.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech thank you, the Octopus R&D labs option sounds interesting I'll take a look

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I tried the R&D Labs and it does work but unfortunately it turns off eco mode on the inverter. Shame because that would have been a great option

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech ok I have now found that if you set the schedules through the web portal you get the option to set eco mode back after the routine has finished, in the app it states that eco mode is not supported. Interesting...

I'm using home assistant and BottleCapDave's octopus integration to have my immersion heater run at the cheapest three hours of the day on agile (so this could turn on and off up to six times a day). I'm planning a givenergy all in one, and instead of using the scheduled charging on the inverter, I intend to use the same method to just turn charging on and off. I am assuming the givenergy home assistant integration will let me just turn charging on and off at will. This was surprisingly easy to setup. I didn't have to write any code at all.