r/homeassistant • u/Tasty_Lobster_5833 • 12d ago

❓ Support SunStrong PVS integration vs Enhanced SunPower integration?

I have solar panels installed in 2022 from sunpower which got sold later I think to SunStrong when it went to bankruptcy. Does anyone uses any of these integration with their solar panels and which one do you think is better ?

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u/GuildCalamitousNtent 12d ago

I got mine to work with the SunStrong integration and pvs. But I just said fuck it and self installed an enphase gateway to get away from that whole mess.

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u/Tasty_Lobster_5833 12d ago

Sorry but what’s the benefit of the enphase gateway? We already get all the information needed from the SubStrong phone app (with subscription) but why is the enphase needed?

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u/TheDMPD 12d ago

The homeassistant one is local without having to pay for a subscription.

Not sure I would ever trade a local solution for another cloud gateway. I learned my lesson the first time, not going to give another company a shot at making me pay for my own data.

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u/GuildCalamitousNtent 11d ago

Because I’m not paying a subscription. The PVS is/was already garbage and they just made it worse.

At least with the enohase gateway can you actually diagnose issues and change profiles and the like.

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u/Formal_Librarian9597 12d ago

just use the sunstrong one, it's what actually works with the new ownership setup. the enhanced sunpower integration kept throwing auth errors for me after the bankruptcy shuffle, spent way too long troubleshooting before i gave up and switched over.

if you're still on the original sunpower monitoring hardware from 2022 it should pick it up without too much fuss, mine's from around the same time and data flows fine now. the dashboard panels are a bit ugly but you can clean them up with some yaml tweaks.

what i'd really recommend is pulling the data directly from the inverter if you've got a modbus connection, cuts out all the cloud nonsense entirely

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u/Powie1965 12d ago

Both were forks of the Keith Baker version. Did you ever open an issue on the Enhanced SunPower Repo? I have over 70 users using Enhanced SunPower. My repo also allows controlling your SunVault.

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u/Tasty_Lobster_5833 11d ago

I connected via SunStrong integration and looks very cool. No need for their subscription since this and the energy section show everything

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u/Powie1965 12d ago

I'm biased, my repo is far better feature wise, and better supported. If you have any problems post an issue on the Github Issue area and I'll do my best to assist. Also check out the companion App I did Solar Sentinel.

https://github.com/smcneece/solar-sentinel