Sure, if you’ve installed on older version you’ll run quickly out of the call budget restricted to 10 calls per day per PV plane.
Budget is resetted by Solcast for all users at 0:00 UTC. It’s described in readme and shown as tooltip on the item.
Hopefully this is also well described in readme.
While the green highlighted channels are showing actual/today values the
blue channels are showing the future. You can visualize them using this tutorial.
The items attached to channels are nice to create a dashboard and graphs but I personally don’t use them for calculations.
Now let me forward you to the rule action section of readme and the corresponding examples.
You can easily transform the example into next 6 hours energy forecast adapting the endTimestamp. Feel free to define start point, end point and duration of your energy query.
// Query forecast via Actions
val solarforecastActions = getActions("solarforecast","solarforecast:sc-site:homeSite")
val startTimestamp = Instant.now
val endTimestamp = Instant.now.plus(6, ChronoUnit.HOURS)
val sixHourForecast = solarforecastActions.getEnergy(startTimestamp,endTimestamp)
logInfo("SF Tests","Forecast Average 6 hours "+ sixHourForecast )