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Automating EV charging with Loxone: Avoiding solar battery discharge

December 29, 2024Configuration, Photovoltaic system, Solutions No Comments
Automating EV charging with Loxone: Avoiding solar battery discharge

This article addresses a common scenario: you own an electric vehicle and a home wallbox, but prefer to charge your car exclusively with surplus solar energy or directly from the grid, avoiding the use of energy stored in your photovoltaic battery. I’ll try to showcase how I automated this using Loxone home automation.  If you … Read More

Wattsonic and Loxone config examples

June 8, 2023Configuration, Devices, Photovoltaic system, Solutions 17 Comments
Wattsonic and Loxone config examples

In the previous post I shared the Modbus registers that we can use to communicate with Wattsonic Hybrid Inverters. Now let’s show a few Loxone config examples to illustrate how the data can be visualized within the Loxone app. Again, please bear in mind that what is/isn’t available and works or does not work today, … Read More

Wattsonic Hybrid Inverter Gen3 Modbus RTU Protocol

June 6, 2023Configuration, Devices, Photovoltaic system, Solutions, Wiring 8 Comments
Wattsonic Hybrid Inverter Gen3 Modbus RTU Protocol

In this post I will try to share the details about how to communicate with Wattsonic inverters using modbus protocol. Understanding the connection details and list of registers is very useful if you want to get live data from the inverter directly, not relying only on the cloud app. This is essential thing if you … Read More

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