Solcast [Home Assistant Component]

This custom component integrates the Solcast API into Home Assistant.

Basic Installation/Configuration Instructions:

Copy content of custom_components to your local custom_components folder and add the following lines to your configuration.

Rooftop Site Configuration:

solcast:
  api_key: XXXXXX
  resource_id: YYYYYY
  api_limit: 20
  disable_ssl_check: False
  disable_automatic_forecast_fetching: False
  disable_automatic_history_fetching: False

Switch configuration variables:

• api_key: Your API key from Solcast.
• resource_id: The rooftop site resouce_id from Solcast.
• api_limit (optional): Number of API calls that should be used for the history over the day, default is 10.
• disable_ssl_check (optional): Disable SSL certificate check, only enable this if you are facing connection problems.
• disable_automatic_forecast_fetching (optional): if you want to set forecasting fetching via automation.
• disable_automatic_history_fetching (optional): if you want to set history fetching via automation (or you do not care about historical values at all).

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Available service calls

update_forecast:
  description: >
    Fetches the forecasts from Solcast.

update_history:
  description: >
    Fetches historical data from Solcast.

push_measurement:
  desciption: >
    Pushes PV measurements to Solcast for model fine tuning.
  fields:
    total_power:
      desciption: >
        The total power of the PV system for the given period.
      example: 1.23456
    period:
      desciption: >
        The period of the total power (e.g. PT5M, PT15M, PT30M, ...)
      example: PT5M
    period_end:
      desciption: >
        The end period of the total power in UTC timezone
      example: 2018-02-02T03:30:00.0000000Z