Kaco

Adds a sensor to Home Assistant that displays several information of a Kaco / Schueco SGI-9k or similar

This component will set up the following platforms.

Platform	Description
sensor	Show date and remaining days to event

Features

• Shows all values from the webinterface
• Status is parsed and shown as text
• Tracks maximal seen power
• Configurable update interval

Installation

HACS

The easiest way to add this to your Homeassistant installation is using [HACS].

It's recommended to restart Homeassistent directly after the installation without any change to the Configuration. Homeassistent will install the dependencies during the next reboot. After that you can add and check the configuration without error messages. This is nothing special to this Integration but the same for all custom components.

Manual

1. Using the tool of choice open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called kaco.
4. Download all the files from the custom_components/kaco/ directory (folder) in this repository.
5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory (folder) you created.
6. Follow the instructions under Configuration below.

Using your HA configuration directory (folder) as a starting point you should now also have this:

custom_components/kaco/translations/en.json
custom_components/kaco/__init__.py
custom_components/kaco/manifest.json
custom_components/kaco/sensor.py
custom_components/kaco/config_flow.py
custom_components/kaco/const.py

Setup

All you need to have the ip adress of the inverter. This is show on the actual device display.

Configuration options

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	true	None	The IP of the inverter, e.g. 192.168.2.194
name	string	false	kaco	The friendly name of the sensor
kwh_interval	int	false	120	The interval of the kwh update
interval	int	false	20	The interval of all other updates (my inverter crashes if I set it below 5 for more than a day)
generator_voltage	bool	false	false	Import generator voltage as entity
generator_current	bool	false	false	Import generator current as entity
grid_voltage	bool	false	false	Import grid voltage as entity
grid_current	bool	false	false	Import grid current as entity

GUI configuration (recommended)

Config flow is supported and is the prefered way to setup the integration. (No need to restart Home-Assistant)

Manual configuration

To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file and replace the link accordingly:

# Example entry for configuration.yaml
sensor:
  - platform: kaco
    name: Solar Power
    url: 192.168.2.194

However grouping via devices are not supported if you using configuration via yaml