Optimize your Electricity cost by re-charging your PV Battery when Electricity is cheap and there is not enough Solarpower available.

To include batcontrol in home assistant please use the repository: https://github.com/muexxl/ha_addons/

Preconditions:

1. You have a PV Installation with a BYD Battery and a Fronius inverter
2. You have a Tibber or aWattar contract with hourly electricity pricing. (Use this link if you want 50€ Bonus on sign up https://invite.tibber.com/x8ci52nj.)

Preparations:

1. verify the credentials of your inverter for customer or technician
2. get your tibber API key from https://developer.tibber.com/
3. create your batcontrol_config.yaml in the config folder
4. customize your load profile or use the default load profile

Install:

git clone https://github.com/muexxl/batcontrol.git  
cd batcontrol  
virtualenv venv  
source venv/bin/activate  
pip install -r requirements.txt  

run

cd /PATH/TO/batcontrol  
source venv/bin/activate        
python batcontrol.py