solaredge2mqtt 0.3.1

Read data from SolarEdge Inverter and publish it to MQTT

SolarEdge 2 MQTT Service

The SolarEdge2MQTT service is a project designed to read power data from a SolarEdge inverter and publish it to an MQTT broker. The service is useful for integrating SolarEdge inverters into home automation systems or other applications that use MQTT for data exchange. It provides real-time monitoring of power flow and other parameters from the inverter via Modbus.

You can also gather the panels' energy production data from the SolarEdge monitoring site. This feature is optional and does not use the API, but rather your monitoring platform account.

The SolarEdge Wallbox can be monitored as well via REST API.

Additionally all values can be saved for visualization into a InfluxDB.

The SolarEdge2MQTT service is currently in an early stage of development. While it is functional and can be used to read data from a SolarEdge inverter and publish it to an MQTT broker, it is still undergoing active development. Features may be added, removed, or changed, and there may be bugs. Users should be aware of this and use the service with caution. Despite its early state, the project is open-source and contributions are welcome.

Installation and Configuration

Install and update using pip.

pip install -U solaredge2mqtt

Install and update using docker

docker pull ghcr.io/deroetzi/solaredge2mqtt:latest

Service configuration

The service is configured by environment variables. The following options can be set:

Environment Variable	default (production/development)	description
SE2MQTT_ENVIRONMENT	production	Choose the default environment settings: production or development.
SE2MQTT_MODBUS_HOST	None	IP address of your inverter
SE2MQTT_MODBUS_PORT	1502	Modbus port of your inverter
SE2MQTT_MODBUS_TIMEOUT	1	Timeout for the modbus connection
SE2MQTT_MODBUS_UNIT	1	Modbus unit address
SE2MQTT_CLIENT_ID	solaredge2mqtt	MQTT client id
SE2MQTT_BROKER	None	IP address of your MQTT broker
SE2MQTT_PORT	1883	Port of your MQTT broker
SE2MQTT_USERNAME	None	Username to authenticate to your MQTT broker
SE2MQTT_PASSWORD	None	Password to authenticate to your MQTT broker (for security reason use secrets with docker)
SE2MQTT_TOPIC_PREFIX	solaredge	SolarEdge2MQTT will use this as prefix topic
SE2MQTT_INTERVAL	5	Interval between requests in seconds
SE2MQTT_LOGGING_LEVEL	INFO	Set logging level to DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL

If you want to get panel energy values from the SolarEdge monitoring platform, add additional parameters.

Environment Variable	description
SE2MQTT_API_SITE_ID	Your site id from the SolarEdge monitoring plattform
SE2MQTT_API_USERNAME	Your username for your account on the SolarEdge monitoring platform
SE2MQTT_API_PASSWORD	Your password for your account on the SolarEdge monitoring plattform (for security reason use secrets with docker)

If you want to monitor the power values of your SolarEdge Wallbox, add additional parameters. The Wallbox needs to have firmware version >= 1.15.0 and activated REST API.

Environment Variable	description
SE2MQTT_WALLBOX_HOST	The IP adress of your wallbox
SE2MQTT_WALLBOX_PASSWORD	The password of user admin you use to login the Web UI of your Wallbox
SE2MQTT_WALLBOX_SERIAL	The serial number of your wallbox

If you want to save the monitoring data to a InfluxDB you have to generate a full access token, because the service will generate two buckets and a task for you.

The first bucket (raw) is used to store every interval the data of the components inverter, meters, batteries and wallbox to a measurement called component and the current powerflow state. This can be useful for debugging reasons. The generated aggregation task will store the energy values of every minute to this bucket. By default this bucket holds the values for 24h.

The second bucket is used by the aggregation task to store the powerflow states and energy values aggregated by 1 hour intervals. By default this bucket holds the values for 2 years.

Environment Variable	default (production/development)	description
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_HOST	None	Set your host (for example: http://localhost)
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_PORT	8086	Set your port
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_TOKEN	None	Set your token (for security reasons use a secret with docker) The token must have full access because the service manages the needed buckets and tasks
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_ORG	None	Set your organization ID
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_PREFIX	solaredge/solaredgedev	Set a prefix for bucket and task names
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_RETENTION_RAW	86400 = 1 day	Set a retention policy in seconds for bucket raw
SE2MQTT_INFLUXDB_RETENTION_AGGREGATED	63072000 = 2 years	Set a retention policy in seconds for bucket aggegrated

Example configuration

You can download .env.example and rename it to .env. Inside, you can modify the default configuration values to meet your needs in this file.

Run the service

In the console

Copy the .env.example file to .env and modify it according to your needs.

Then, simply run solaredge2mqtt to start the service.

With docker:

docker run --name solaredge2mqtt --rm \
    -e "SE2MQTT_MODBUS_HOST=<INVERTER_IP>" \
    -e "SE2MQTT_BROKER=<BROKER_IP>" \
    -e "SE2MQTT_USERNAME=<MQTT_USERNAME>" \
    -e "SE2MQTT_PASSWORD=<MQTT_PASSWORD>" \
    -e "TZ=Europe/Berlin" \
    ghcr.io/deroetzi/solaredge2mqtt:latest

Add optional environment arguments from above to fit to your setup.

With docker-compose

Copy the .env.example file to .env and modify it according to your needs.

Get the docker-compose.yml file.

Generate a .secrets directory and put at least a file called mqtt_password inside with your MQTT broker password.

If you want to use module energy values additionally, uncomment the secrets parts for the se2mqtt_api_password secret inside the docker-compose.yml and put a api_password file in the .secrets directory as well. Same applies for wallbox_password and influxdb_token

Run the docker container

docker-compose up -d

Stop the docker container

docker-compose down