bdo21 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 SunSpec is an industry standard data protocol for solar and energy storage devices. http://www.sunspec.org. I would like to extract the data from solar panels to trigger events in the home (eg start a washing machine). Presumably a C4 driver could be written directly or I could run software on a raspberry pi to collate the data and would then need to find a way for the raspberry pi to send information/triggers to Control4. I am definitely out of my comfort zone - just wondering if someone else with more knowledge can make anything of this! Chowmain has a driver for egauge for energy monitoring but it is both more comprehensive, requires additional hardware and it doesn’t use the source data from the solar equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeHomeControl Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Conceptually, if you have a SunSpec compliant solar panel system with, say, a network interface, you could write a Control4 driver that communicates with this system using, for example, HTTP. Do you have a specific SunSpec compliant solar panel system that you are trying to work with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blub Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 SunSpec is an industry standard data protocol for solar and energy storage devices. http://www.sunspec.org. I would like to extract the data from solar panels to trigger events in the home (eg start a washing machine). Presumably a C4 driver could be written directly or I could run software on a raspberry pi to collate the data and would then need to find a way for the raspberry pi to send information/triggers to Control4. I am definitely out of my comfort zone - just wondering if someone else with more knowledge can make anything of this! Chowmain has a driver for egauge for energy monitoring but it is both more comprehensive, requires additional hardware and it doesn’t use the source data from the solar equipment. Hi I would basically check the largest suppliers for inverters, like SMA if the have an API - their sunny island and home manager 2.0 might have that. Another option is to tap into an energy management system that routes power depending on needed and produced energy, the ones I know are Smartfox and Powerdog - both pretty cool SMA:https://www.sma.de/produkte/sma-developer.html Powerdog http://api.power-dog.eu/documentation/ Personally an integration to Powerdog makes more sense as you automatically integrate all inverters that work with powerdog already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blub Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Conceptually, if you have a SunSpec compliant solar panel system with, say, a network interface, you could write a Control4 driver that communicates with this system using, for example, HTTP. Do you have a specific SunSpec compliant solar panel system that you are trying to work with?Those all use Modbus for which you need and adapter and I am not sure if any use mod is TCP IP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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