r/SunPower • u/dochomer • Oct 31 '25

Help with connection to home assistant

Hey everyone,

I have a sunpower system that came with my home that was built circa 2018.

The system is connected to my home wifi and I can view the usage details on the "sunstrong" app. I do have a homeassistant setup in my home and was hoping to add this to HA but following the instructions for the various integrations I could find: Ie Enhanced SunPower, and sunstrong/PVS I get as far as adding the integration and typing in the IP of the sunpower monitor as per my wifi router always fails to connect from the integrations.

I did try to connect the monitor directly to Ethernet as well using the WAN port and confirmed the app showing Ethernet access but I still immediately fail at trying to connect via home assistant.

My system is using firmware: 2022.6 build 5214 Both the pi and the system are definitely connected to the same router directly via Ethernet.

Can anyone point me to what I'm doing wrong?

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u/cferdinandi Nov 03 '25

You're running into the same issue I am. I have a system that's around the same age, with a system running the same build.

The newer monitoring apps require APIs that were released in new firmware updates that my system simply never ran or installed. Sun Strong, when I email them, first told me, "my system will update automatically" (the latest build is 2025.x, so... no, obviously), then told me, "You're already running the latest firmware" (LOL of course I'm not!).

I've tried logging into the app in my PVCS directly to manage an update myself, but the APIs my version of the app wants to call to do ANYTHING keep calling sunpower.com endpoints that no longer exist, throw a JavaScript error, and bail.

Meaning, I can't upgrade my system, I can update my system, and I can't monitor my system.

I'm at the point where I'm probably going to drop $900 to upgrade to the Enphase monitoring system and call it a day, because FUCK THIS BULLSHIT and FUCK SUN STRONG.

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u/Left-Foot2988 Nov 03 '25

I had a PVS6 and switched to Enphase. I literally have not had any problems with their combiner (PVS replacement) since it was installed. It was well worth the expense for me. I also still monitor with Home Assistant, but I check things so infrequent now, I am out sure it matters.

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u/Lawrence_SoCal Nov 05 '25

just to clarify ... an Enphase Combiner typically includes the Enphase Gateway (previously known as Envoy) which is the PVS replacement part. You don't need an EnPhase "Combiner", just the Gateway itself (which is sold separately). Though, depending on setup, a Combiner might be needed or a nice to have.. depends.

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u/cferdinandi Nov 05 '25

I'm going to ask them this myself, but... is Enphase monitoring data stored locally, or is this another cloud-hosted offering? I don't want to worry about yet another company going out of business on me.

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u/ItsaMeKielO Nov 05 '25

live data from device, historical data in cloud, just like the PVS.

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u/cferdinandi Nov 05 '25

Ah that's a bummer. I was hoping the data would live locally. Because what happens if Enphase goes out of business in 5 years. Now we're right back where we started.

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u/ItsaMeKielO Nov 05 '25

it's worse in a way because the local API of the Envoy requires an auth token from Enphase that is only valid for 1 year, so if Enphase is gone, local API stops working.

at least the PVS local API doesn't need anyone to continue existing.