The Penguin of EvilReminder - don't buy your inverters and batteries and solar from someone whose systems depend on cloud services.
https://caseboard.io/cases/3bce5889-8fa9-4961-804f-a9a407993ef3
penguin42@etchedpixels Hmm, I thought they had source for access, or is that depending on the cloud; https://github.com/GivEnergy/giv_tcp
@penguin42 there is some level of local access except maybe to their EV charger but that should fail to dumb mode
Alun Jones@etchedpixels @penguin42 We've got a GivEnergy system, this comes as a bit of a surprise!
Luckily, talking to the inverter and battery via the local network is fully supported and the Home Assistant integration works so well that I can't remember when I last accessed via the cloud interface.
@penguin42 @etchedpixels it's modbus over tcp, and fairly well documented - I played a bit before moving to Home Assistant. GivEnergy supported the development of giv_tcp.
So far as I'm concerned, they were on the "good" end of the scale. In contrast with British Gas's Hive system, for example, where the only way to get any measure of local control is to throw away their hub and put your own Zigbee system in place.
@penguin42 @etchedpixels just to add - I'm not here defending my choice as a buyer - we bought from e-on and didn't know anything about GivEnergy until after installation. I should have been more proactive in looking into telemetry support, but price was our main consideration at the time.
@pengfold @etchedpixels I've not bought anything (yet) - I'd found that when I was looking a few years ago that they had published that source and thought it seemed good.