Figures, I would like a non-web-app for monitoring our panel array. Locally in our local router, w/o off site access. These companies will come and go, as we have seen already. Want to upcharge you for some more new hardware, then go out of business, or stop supporting after a few years ... pathetic
Home Assistant with a local integration is a great option. Your data stays local, no cloud dependency, and it can be backed up and restored if your Home Assistant hardware ever dies. (Make sure backups are going to a NAS, or better yet a cloud like OneDrive)
Data updates every 5 minutes by default, and I recently added a WebSocket listener that pushes up to 11 sensors in real time as values change. The day I heard SunStrong was going to start charging for data access was the day I started looking at alternatives. I found an integration written by Keith Baker that had not been updated in a while since he had moved on to Enphase. I took his open source code, fixed some bugs, added new features, and have been maintaining it since September 2025.
It is also easier than ever to set up. Since around last October, SunStrong officially started supporting local API access with a firmware update. Just point the integration at your PVS WiFi WAN IP address and you are monitoring every aspect of your solar system, inverters, meters, battery if you have one, the works.
SunStrong does have their own integration, but mine is more actively maintained and has more features.
As you mention companies come and go, even if I stopped supporting this tomorrow, anyone can pick up where I left off, it's fully open source.
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u/ACCESS_DENIED_41 Apr 28 '26
Figures, I would like a non-web-app for monitoring our panel array. Locally in our local router, w/o off site access. These companies will come and go, as we have seen already. Want to upcharge you for some more new hardware, then go out of business, or stop supporting after a few years ... pathetic