Newbie needing help
Hi all.
I am very new to Bright and Home Assistant but I am trying to get something up and running and keep being diverted from one place to another and feel like I'm just treading water.
Quick recap of what I have done and what I want to achieve.
I have solar panels and my smart meter shows a little pylon with an arrow going into it when I am exporting to the grid. I am wanting to get this information into Home Assistant so I can create automations etc which will start a washing machine for example, when we are exporting.
I have added the Hildebrand addon to HA and it seemed to work, albeit delayed (one update a day I think). This has now stopped working which is a side issue. It says every day I have used 0.23kwh which would be fantastic if true. I'll deal with that later.
My question is, what do I need hardware or software wise to be able to achieve what I want? I currently have a Chameleon smart meter with a code of IHD-PPMID underneath and this has been added to the Bright App and shows in HA (again with the wrong data).
I have read about a Bright CAD device but not sure if A) it will help me achieve what I want and B) if I need it at all and could achieve it with what I currently have.
Thank you in advance.
Comments
Anybody?
I'm not familiar with HA automation, but don't think that a feed via the DCC will be responsive enough for this.
I found the following on Github for a Hildebrand Glow (DCC) Integration add-on (https://github.com/HandyHat/ha-hildebrandglow-dcc), possibly the one you are using:
The data provided will be delayed by around 30 minutes. To get real-time consumption data, you can buy Hildebrand Glow hardware. Although this integration will technically work with their hardware, you should instead use the Local MQTT integration or the Cloud MQTT integration to get real-time consumption data which is not delayed.
The advantage of a Local MQTT implementation is that it doesn't require the Internet to work reliably.
Hopefully this helps,
Martin