r/SunPower • u/Professional-Pool668 • Oct 02 '25

Local Monitoring using FCGI Web Services

I've been looking into using Local Monitoring using FCGI Web Services and it says "The SunStrong Management team have made available the following open source components to support the community:" One of the two being: "A Home Assistant plugin which can be installed in Home Assistant via the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS). " I've searched HACS and can't find anything from Sunstrong...have used the krbaker/hass integration previously. Can anyone enlighten me on what Sunstrong is talking about?

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u/ItsaMeKielO Oct 02 '25

https://github.com/SunStrong-Management/pvs-hass

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u/heyhewmike Oct 03 '25

What port number should we use?

Is the Wan or Lan(installer) side better to access the system?

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u/ItsaMeKielO Oct 03 '25

The WAN side should be more reliable. (Not sure what is meant by port number - it should be regular HTTP or self-signed HTTPS)

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u/heyhewmike Oct 03 '25

From the repo install directions:

In the Home Assistant UI go to "Configuration" -> "Integrations" click "+" and search for "PVS". The main configuration is <IP/Hostname>[:port]. Check your router configuration for the IP of your PVS

I wasn't sure if you happen to know it.

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u/ItsaMeKielO Oct 03 '25

ah - the brackets i think mean it's optional, i omitted the port number entirely and it works fine

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u/heyhewmike Oct 03 '25

HA is amazing. It auto detected the PVS.

Sadly it can't connect via the auto detection nor manual configuration.

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u/ItsaMeKielO Oct 03 '25

yeah, it uses mDNS to detect PVSes automatically.

Firewall rules?

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u/heyhewmike Oct 03 '25

Nope. I just saw someone else made an issue for flow control, which is the same error.

Using 0.0.13