Is there any Privacy Respecting/Ethical hardware out there?

[kolek]

This is an older thread but what's the best "open source" alternative to Solar Assistant?
I want to be able to monitor my Deye 8k inverter and JK-BMS
I realize that Solar Assistant can be used "offline" but I prefer open source.

Will this do the same thing?

GitHub - slipx06/Sunsynk-Home-Assistant-Dash: Home Assistant Dashboard to display Inverter information. ESPHome configuration to collect inverter sensor data via modbus

Home Assistant Dashboard to display Inverter information. ESPHome configuration to collect inverter sensor data via modbus - slipx06/Sunsynk-Home-Assistant-Dash

github.com

or this (which was mentioned earlier):

GitHub - HotNoob/PythonProtocolGateway: Python Protocol Gateway reads data via Modbus RTU or other protocols and translates the data for MQTT. In the long run, Python Protocol Gateway will become a general purpose protocol gateway to translate betwe

Python Protocol Gateway reads data via Modbus RTU or other protocols and translates the data for MQTT. In the long run, Python Protocol Gateway will become a general purpose protocol gateway to tr...

github.com

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

I use Grafana. I think you saw the set-up guide I linked to before in the wiki, and the code to talk to the BMS is on my github.

For the Deye, you can use this library to read the data over modbus: https://pypi.org/project/sunsynk/

You likely will have to write a small python script with the sunsynk library, but it should be straight forward since the library does all the heavy lifting - just need to get the data into Prometheus for Grafana to use, just like in the BMS script I wrote.

 

[kolek]

You likely will have to write a small python script with the sunsynk library

I see. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm kinda looking for something that will work out of the box. Python programming is outside my scope. Are you familiar with this?

GitHub - slipx06/Sunsynk-Home-Assistant-Dash: Home Assistant Dashboard to display Inverter information. ESPHome configuration to collect inverter sensor data via modbus

Home Assistant Dashboard to display Inverter information. ESPHome configuration to collect inverter sensor data via modbus - slipx06/Sunsynk-Home-Assistant-Dash

github.com

 

[upnorthandpersonal]

That's for Home Assistant; that project you link to uses ESPHome (ESP32) to talk to the Deye. I don't use it myself, but from what I've read it's good.

 

[45North]

Yes, many companies and governments are collecting lots of "personal" data. Presumably the companies are hoping to monetize it.
The silver lining, if there even is one - some governments are considering "right to repair" laws for consumers.