FoxESS Community - Owners & Installers Forum

Hi, new to this forum.

I have 2 solar systems (long story, lets not go there) the first has a GivEnergy hybrid inverter plus battery, the second is a FoxESS F3000. I have long harboured the thought of getting into Home Assistant, with several goals in mind. But was dragging my feet about doing it for various reasons.

Anyhow, GivEnergy has gone into adminstration, which has prompted me and many other owners to start the HA journey, so as to be confident of local control of our GE systems. Even before the administration was announced, they were proposing to start charging users for cloud access, which many of us did not like.

So now I have a HA Green and am finding my way round. And that opens up one of those nice-to-haves which made me think of HA in the first place - a dashboard which gives an aggregated view of power and generation from both my solar systems.

So - is there a way of connecting my F3000 inverter to HA, preferably without having to go up in the loft and connect anything to it? And also preferably bypassing the Fox cloud? Cos, you know - if one cloud can disappear, so could another.

Once I’ve got that, I’m sure I can figure out the rest.

Hi, you can get data from the Fox cloud, assuming it’s connected via a Fox datalogger - if you can see it in the Fox app then you’ll be able to get ‘some’ data from it.

The problem is that without a CT clamp on it, you won’t be able to get access to house load etc.. - simply what it solar power it is producing - but with home assistant and a shelly CT clamp you could do that bit for yourself.

This is a link to the Fox cloud integration https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha, it needs an Open API key which you may already have if you use the Energy Stats app, if not you can get one from the V1 Fox website under profile, API management.

OK, thank you……. My GE system has CT clamps and gives me import and export data, so I’m OK on that. Will be happy to get instantaneous PV power and today’s generation figure from the fox system.

I have the Fox app, and have now succeeded into logging in to the FoxCloud and generating an API key. So far so good. I’ve looked at the page you linked to, and got lost. Where is the ha.io file I need to edit? I’m using an iPad and have looked in the files app and can’t find it.