Jason SnellJust posted on Six Colors: Putting my solar system in my menu bar
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/10/putting-my-solar-system-in-my-menu-bar/
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇@threatresearch Please do! The API stuff was super frustrating to figure out, so I hope people with Enphase systems will find it useful
@jsnell This is truly great, I plan to.
Scott McNulty@jsnell You got your menu bar in my Solar System!
@blankbaby My solar system is in the Solar System, to be fair
Matt Brady@jsnell You're going to get screen burn-in now!
Graeme K@jsnell Is there a podcast in the Snell Podcastaverse where you talked about all of this, by chance? I keep flirting with solar but it’s hard to learn about it without someone wanting to sell you something. 😂
@graemek not comprehensively
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Mieszko Ślusarczyk@jsnell Try looking into Home Assistant, it gives you so many more possibilities than HomeBridge :)
@spitfire I try not to kick at random products I dislike but I have tried home assistant a few times and I hate it. Your assumption that I just hadn't tried it is nice but mistaken :)
@jsnell I didn’t assume you didn’t know about it/haven’t tried it, that was just a suggestion. I know HA is complicated (it’s hard to make something so powerful very easy to use), but it has been improved a lot recently - so if you’ve tried it a while back it may still be worth revisiting. (1/3)
I like it a lot, because I’m able to put pretty much anything that has some connectivity option (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, and the list goes on) from many different vendors and integrate it in one system (so they can be used as if they were from the same ecosystem). (2/3)
It gives you the same capability of exposing stuff back to Apple Home (even if it wasn’t supported to begin with - as long as the type of device is), and much more - automations (especially useful to me - I’m doing a lot of them related to power/solar), dashboards, custom built devices (that may fill needs otherwise not provided by ready made devices in the market). (3/3)
Tony West@jsnell another reminder for me that all this data is there, I just need to connect to it. Add this to my list for my Christmas break to do list.
Marcos Huerta@jsnell Swiftbar! 🙌
This is a much better use than my plug-in, which tracks Mega Millions and Powerball jackpot sizes. 😬
Tom@jsnell hope to do something similar this winter when our system is in!
Tim Schmitz@jsnell Love this, thanks for sharing! I’m off to set this up for myself right now
Russell Ivanovic@jsnell I have a battery as well, and this menu bar app has been super useful: https://www.fantasticsprinkles.com/tesla-powerwall-monitor.html
(only works with Powerwalls though)
@rustyshelf looks very much like the Enphase web interface. Nice!
@rustyshelf can I draw something this pretty in Python? Probably not. But maybe I will try someday.
@jsnell this one is animated as well, but Python can totally do anything right? (plus these are just 45 PNGs in a trench-coat anyway)
sashk 🇺🇦@jsnell Thank you Jason, what a timely post! I'm about to get my system upgraded to enphase gateway and my plan for tonight was to figure out all the details of their api. Your code will save me a ton of work 😀
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Michael Fessler@jsnell Oh, cool! We have an Enphase system, though it’s a few years old. We don’t have consumption metering or batteries yet - maybe in a year or two. Will have to look into this, thanks…
Chip Warden@jsnell It took my way too long to realize this was about your solar ENERGY system, and not THE solar system.
derek the solarboi@jsnell Oh hey this is relevant to my interests!
Schwieb@jsnell hmmm, I have an Enphase system, but when I log into entrez… it won’t give me a token without some system info.
@Schwieb you gotta put in the name of your system
@jsnell thank you!
@Schwieb BTW you were one of my inspirations in terms of dreaming on solar, thank you
Joefrey Kibuule, MD@jeffkibuule @Schwieb ha yep when I hear Home Assistant I think "easy" 🙃
@jeffkibuule @Schwieb it's a single JSON file. And "you get more" is not an answer to "easier." C'mon. Go sell home assistant to someone else.
Stuart Barnes@jsnell I got my solar setup a little over a year ago, and I’m very happy with it! I would have gotten a bigger battery if I’d known though.
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