Hi - I’m new to OH3 and automation in general. Got most of my devices up & working within OH.
I’m expecting to have a GivEnergy PV & battery system (UK) installed in a few months time and am looking at what data I’ll be able to get from the system to use within OH.
Before I go much further looking into how to use their API (and in fact any API as I’ve not done this before 
), I was wondering if anyone is developing a GivEnergy binding?
Cheers
Mike
GivEnergy have an API that I think you can access with HTTP, either the binding or in a rule.
I’m not sure how often that is updated so I use a local connection. The GivEnergy WiFi dongle accepts Modbus over TCP connections. Annoyingly, they don’t use the standard Modbus protocol so you can’t use the Modbus binding. There is a program called GivTCP that you can execute with the exec binding and parse the results with a rule or a JSON transformation. I use this method to poll the inverter every 10 seconds.
I did modify GivTCP to grab fewer parameters because it was filling up the log with long JSON strings.
Barny
Thanks for the info.
I’ll bear this in mind once I have the system installed etc.