Raspberry Pi with Solar

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Hacatan

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#324180 10-Mar-2026 09:01

Hi all, I’m a new member posting for the first time. Is anyone controlling/integrating a Solar inverter with a raspberry pi? Currently as a residential home owner in Auckland I’m buying my electricity on the spot market (which I did 10+ years ago with Flick) and running the house (HWC, 2 x EV chargers, pumps etc) based on the spot price and controlled by a raspi. I’m thinking of installing solar and wondered whether there is anyone controlling a solar setup with a raspi in terms of grid export times, varying house load with the pi to minimise grid import etc ? Thanks

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#3468324 10-Mar-2026 09:34

I'm not (yet), but I'd be very interested to hear how that would work.

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#3468331 10-Mar-2026 09:48

I suspect you'd be reinventing the wheel - have a read about installing Home Assistant on the pi, and then using that to control relays and contactors to control based on import/export.

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#3468391 10-Mar-2026 11:09

One thing you could have a look at is using it for reporting, e.g. my system is Enphase and I understand that python libraries exist for it so the pi could draw data directly off the gateway

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#3468436 10-Mar-2026 14:03

I do a small amount with home assistant running on a Pi. HA is integrated with the inverter and controls hot water heating. I haven't done anything else as I don't need to.

Hacatan

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#3468437 10-Mar-2026 14:11

I’ve written my own code to operate the house (rather than use Home Assistant) , I was interested to know if anyone had used the python libraries to monitor Solar input, adjust export times, battery charge etc. and with which inverter they used it on.