Quick Start

Quick Start: Charge Or Export On A Schedule

This page is for the two most common jobs:

• Charge your battery from the grid at X watts between times Y and Z.
• Export up to X watts between times Y and Z.

You can do this through the Home Assistant interface. You do not need YAML.

The Short Version

Goal	Battery power	Schedule	Extra control
Charge from grid	Set Schedule Input Power to X	Add a charge slot from Y to Z	None
Export to grid	Set Schedule Output Power above X to cover house load	Add a discharge slot from Y to Z	Cap the main meter export at X

Before You Start

Complete Installation and Setup, then find these devices under Settings > Devices & services > Solplanet:

• Your battery, including Work mode, Schedule Input Power, Schedule Output Power, and Schedule Configured.
• Your main meter, if you want to control export.

Home Assistant uses watts. For example, enter 5000 for 5 kW.

X is a power rate, not a total amount of energy. Charging at 5 kW for two hours adds roughly 10 kWh before losses, unless the battery reaches SOC max first.

Important

Charging the battery at 5,000 W does not limit your total grid import to 5,000 W. Your house loads are added to the battery charge power.

Setting a 5,000 W export limit caps export at about 5,000 W. It cannot guarantee that amount if your solar and battery do not have enough spare power.

The integration cannot hold your whole property's grid import at an exact watt value. Its import-current control only limits the inverter's own draw.

Charge From The Grid At X Watts

Example: charge at 5,000 W from 1:00 am to 3:00 am.

Set The Charging Power

1. Open your Solplanet battery device.
2. Set Schedule Input Power to 5000.
3. Set Work mode to Custom mode.

Add The Time Period

1. Open Developer Tools > Actions.
2. Select Solplanet: Set Schedule Slots.
3. Under Targets, select the battery's Schedule Configured entity.
4. Select the day.
5. Set Start hour to 1.
6. Set Start minute to 0.
7. Set Duration to 2.
8. Set Mode to charge.
9. Select Perform action.
10. Repeat for each day you want to charge.

The schedule remains on the inverter, so you do not need a separate Home Assistant automation to stop charging at 3:00 am.

Export Up To X Watts

Example: export up to 5,000 W from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

This needs two parts:

1. A battery schedule that makes power available.
2. A meter limit that caps how much reaches the grid.

Set The Discharging Power

Your house uses battery power before the remainder is exported. Set Schedule Output Power high enough to cover both your house load and the export you want.

For example, if you want to export 5,000 W and your house normally uses 1,000 W at that time, start with 6,000 W. Stay within the ratings approved for your system.

1. Open your Solplanet battery device.
2. Set Schedule Output Power to 6000 for this example.
3. Set Work mode to Custom mode.

Add The Discharge Period

1. Open Developer Tools > Actions.
2. Select Solplanet: Set Schedule Slots.
3. Under Targets, select the battery's Schedule Configured entity.
4. Select the day.
5. Set Start hour to 17.
6. Set Start minute to 0.
7. Set Duration to 2.
8. Set Mode to discharge.
9. Select Perform action.
10. Repeat for each day you want to export.

Cap The Export

Test this action manually before adding it to an automation:

1. Open Developer Tools > Actions.
2. Select Solplanet: Enable power limit control (Limit power).
3. Select your main meter as the Meter device.
4. Select Phase-balanced (Sum of all phases) for a typical single-phase system.
5. Select (W) absolute power.
6. Set Export power limit setpoint (W) to 5000.
7. Set Setpoint offset (W) to -100 for a small safety margin.
8. Set Communications loss timeout to 60 seconds.
9. Set Communications loss power limit (W) to 0 for a conservative fallback.
10. Select Perform action and watch your meter power.

Ask your installer which phase mode and fallback values to use if you have a three-phase system or an approved export-control requirement.

Turn The Export Limit Off At Z

The battery stops scheduled discharge at Z, but the export cap stays enabled until you disable it. If you leave it enabled, it can also cap normal daytime solar export.

Test the stop action:

1. Open Developer Tools > Actions.
2. Select Solplanet: Disable power limit control.
3. Select the same main meter.
4. Select Perform action.

Create two Home Assistant automations after both manual actions work:

Automation	Time	Action
Start export limit	One minute before Y	Enable power limit control (Limit power) with the tested values
Stop export limit	At Z	Disable power limit control

Open Settings > Automations & scenes, create an automation, add a Time trigger, then add the tested Solplanet action. Starting the limit one minute early avoids a brief uncapped export when the battery schedule begins.

Use Your Own Times

The schedule action asks for a start time and duration, not an end time.

Start (Y)	End (Z)	Start hour	Start minute	Duration
01:00	03:00	1	0	2
13:30	16:30	13	30	3
17:00	21:00	17	0	4

A slot can start on the hour or half-hour and last one to four whole hours. For a longer period, add adjacent slots. Split a period that crosses midnight between the two days.

The current action labels Tuesday as Tus and Wednesday as Wen.

Change Or Remove A Schedule

Set Schedule Slots adds a slot. It does not edit an existing one.

To change a slot:

1. Run Solplanet: Clear Schedule for that day.
2. Add the day's required slots again.

Wait for a successful integration update and check the existing schedule in the Solplanet app before changing it. This helps avoid losing slots if the dongle's schedule data has not loaded.

If It Does Not Work

• Confirm the battery is in Custom mode.
• Confirm Schedule Input Power or Schedule Output Power is not 0.
• Confirm you created the slot for the correct day.
• For export control, confirm you selected the main meter.
• Check battery communication, warning, and error entities.
• Disable Power Limit Control temporarily if scheduled charging does not start.

See Battery Modes and Schedules, Power Limit Control, or Troubleshooting for more detail.