shapa wrote:Works fine so far. Excellent plugin, thank you very much!.
Thanks for the kind words - I am glad it is working OK for you
shapa wrote:Some questions / suggestions:
1) Billing - to add "reset" cycles? I.e. to be able to compare with an official bill - monthly charges...
Ideally, to store kWh and money spent values in variables (i.e. "Smappee_January_Gas_kWh", "Smappee_January_Gas_UKP", etc)
It would be nice to reset values shown in the UI every month then (to see gas and electricity consumed from a new billing cycle date, )
The UI values get reset every day at midnight - it has to be like this to show daily values and it is how the plugin is designed to process the data. If you reload the plugin, it automatically retrieves all the values from midnight so that the UI always shows the current state of play for a days usage. The UI
Last Reset and
Reset Date are actually inaccurate in that it assumes the reset date/time is when you click the reset button or reload the plugin when in fact it is midnight. I have previously requested (
see this post) that this be able to be set by the plugin; hopefully in Indigo 7
However the point you make about being able to view historical data is good and is something I have been thinking about. I will have a think about how to do this. I would also like to be able to get the plugin to upload data to
pvoutput.org - maybe for version 3
shapa wrote:2) Electricity - only "net use" must be used in calculation , right? (not talking about generation payment which is a different story - BTW also would be nice to show)
Right now all price settings available for the main electricity "device" which is a summary of solar and "borrowed" electricity.
Not 100% sure what you are asking here but the total amount of electricity used will be in the Electricity Device states together with what you would have been charged by your electricity supplier if you didn't have solar. What you have actually used from the grid and the real cost from the electricity supplier is shown in the Net Electricity device states. What you have saved (by using Solar) and what this is worth is shown in Saved Electricity device states.
You can Edit Device Settings for the Solar device to enter what you earn on generation and export and also how your export percentage is calculated (it is normally assumed to be 50% for domestic properties with a Solar PV array of 4 kWH generation capacity or less). This table from of ofgem may help? :
Feed-in Tariff (FIT): Tariff Table 1 April 2016 PV OnlyOnce you enter these figures then the SolarPV device will have states for generation income, export income, total of the previous two (which is what your Feed-in-Tariff amount will be based on) and a total of the FIT total + saved income (because you were using power form the Solar rather than the grid). So with this plugin it actually gives you info that isn't available from the Smappee App.
Looking at your image, I see the Gas Device units are being shown as Watts. If you edit your Gas device you can enter cubic metres for the units and also the charging rates for the Gas. At the moment you will have to work out manually (from info in your gas bill) how much you get charged for a cubic metre and enter this value.
I also note that it is nice and sunny in Swindon