How to change Work Mode in Home Assistant

[albie999]

I already have some automation setup in Home Assistant to allow me to changed Work Modes, between feed-in, self-use etc ... however, noticed that if the Work Mode inside the Fox App is set to "Mode Scheduler", this overwrites what I try to set from Home Assistant. The only way I seem to be able to resolve, is to go into the Fox App iself and manually change the Work Mode back to "Self-Use" then my automations work again

So, the question is ... is there any Home Assistant way of doing this change

I ask, as just got Axle Energy and had my first event. I do not use the "Mode Scheduler", as I like to be able to automate my work mode from HA, but the Event Only mode Axle Energy writes a "Mode Scheduler" request to initiate the export ... and when it completes, it seems to stay in "Mode Scheduler"

[Dave Foster]

It looks like Axle are leaving the mode scheduler ‘master switch’ set on even though there are no schedules running, but there is no way to override this with Home Assistant; the mode scheduler runs in the inverter Manager and will always take precedent.

The mode scheduler isn’t available over the home assistant modbus integration so unfortunately you can’t turn it off unless you use the Openapi cloud interface and write to the mode scheduler via that.

[albie999]

It looks like Axle are leaving the mode scheduler ‘master switch’ set on even though there are no schedules running, but there is no way to override this with Home Assistant; the mode scheduler runs in the inverter Manager and will always take precedent.

The mode scheduler isn’t available over the home assistant modbus integration so unfortunately you can’t turn it off unless you use the Openapi cloud interface and write to the mode scheduler via that.

Hi Dave, interested what you mean here
"unless you use the Openapi cloud interface and write to the mode scheduler via that."

[Dave Foster]

The OpenApi is what apps like Energy Stats use to control your inverter, I know a few people have written their own code to talk to it and control in particular the scheduler - Tony M has written an amazing library of functions that allow you to access, read and write to it but it does take some coding experience to use it, more on that here https://github.com/TonyM1958/FoxESS-Cloud

[albie999]

Thanks Dave, appreciate the response ... however, I feel the library function you mention is way above my level of skill .... think I will just have to remember to go into the fox app and change it back to self-use mode

Old school .. will give myself a notification message to my phone