now that users can tell the DPL that their inverter is not powered by a
battery but powered by solar panels, we shall not restart inverters to
reset the daily yield value, if they are solar powered. these inverters
will reboot every night by themselves.
currently this is only supported by the Pylontech battery provider, as
it reports a "charge battery immediately" alarm. this will also be
implemented by the JK BMS provider, and possibly also by the smart shunt
provider.
the method will be used to determine whether or not to start charging
the battery using the (Huawei) charger.
* fix logic in HomeAssistent handler
* also publish voltage thresholds (not just SoC thresholds)
* do not publish irrelevant thresholds to MQTT. if the inverter is
solar-powered, no thresholds are effectively in use by the DPL and it
therefore makes no sense to publish them to the broker. similarly, if
no battery interface is enabled or the SoC values are set to be
ignored, the SoC thresholds are effectively not in use and will not be
published to the broker.
* make HA auto-discovery expire. this makes auto-dicovered items
disappear from Home Assistent if their value is no longer updated.
changes to settings which cause other thresholds to be relevant will
then be reflected in Home Assistent even if some thresholds are no
longer maintaned in MQTT.
* force HA update when related settings change enabling VE.Direct shall
trigger an update since solar passthrough thresholds become relevant.
similarly, enabling the battery interface makes SoC thresholds become
relevant. there are more settings in the power limiter that also
influence the auto-discoverable items.
* break very long lines
the allocated memory to create the JSON with onBattery-specific totals
for the live view was too little to contain all values, which are sent
regularly.
avoid shutting down the inverter at all if the calculated power limit
falls below the lower power limit or if the power meter value is
outdated. do this only if the inverter is setup to be solar powered.
by default and until this change, we assumed that the inverter
controlled by the DPL is powered by a battery. not all users have a
battery in their system. they still use the DPL to achieve net-zero
export. those users can now tell the DPL that their inverter is powered
by solar modules rather than a battery and the DPL will behave
accordingly.
do not scale limit if inverter is not producing, as DC channel power is
expected to be close to zero anyways.
do not scale limit if current inverter limit is small, such that
channels might produce very little power exactly because the limit is so
low.
move the calculation out of setNewPowerLimit and into a new function, so
that we can make use of return statements there.
the update frequency of Victron MPPT charger data, the battery Soc, the
huawei charger power, and the power meter differ from one another, and
differ in particular from the inverter update frequency.
the OnBattery-specific data is now handled in a new method, outside the
upstream code, which merely call the new function(s). the new function
will update the websocket independently from inverter updates. also, it
adds the respective data if it actually changed since it was last
updated through the websocket.
for the webapp to be able to recover in case of errors, all values are
also written to the websocket with a fixed interval of 10 seconds.
This change makes the build runner switch to a meaningful branch name, which will then appear as the "Firmware Branch" in the System Info of the web application. This helps users testing pull-request builds identify that they are actually using the changes from the respective pull request.
we previously only called commitPowerLimit() if the desired limit
changed such that the change was bigger than the hysteresis. we found
that if the limit update was not received and the desired limit would
not change much, the limit of the inverter was wrong for a long time.
to mitigate this, we introduced re-sending the limit update every 60
seconds, regardless of what the limit reported by the inverter was at
that time.
if the power-up command was not received, we also would repeat it only
once every 60 seconds.
this leads to a new kind of staleness and the actual inverter state was
still not matching the desired state.
this new approach effectively adds an additional control loop at the
start of the DPL loop(). that new function compares the requested
inverter state to the actual reported state. it sends updates (limit
update or power on state) until the desired inverter state is reached,
or until a (hard-coded) timeout occurs.
this approach also allows us to send power-up, power-down, and limit
update commands independent from one another and in a particular order.
this should make sure that the inverter is in the desired state even if
conditions change slowly and commands were not received as expected.
* make efficient use of available display area
fix calculation of the text baselines, using getAscent() in favor of
getMaxCharHeight(), which includes ascent and descent. this moves the
first text up and allows to insert margin between the lines until the
display area is fully utilized.
on large displays, if the small diagram is selected, keep the first line
rather low to avoid collision with the diagram y-axis label. in this mode,
there is still more space between the text lines as before, allowing for
improved readability.
* Feature: show power grid usage on display
if the power meter is enabled, the display will use two of three out
of every three-second time slot to show the grid consumption.
closes#620.
the DPL is interested in the battery's voltage to make decisions about
draining the battery or letting it charge (if the user opts to use
voltage thresholds rather than SoC thresholds). using the DC input
voltage reported by the inverter under control has disadvantages:
* the data might be quite old due to the communication protocol
implementation. more inverters being polled means even more lag. the
connection being wireless makes this even worse, due to the need
to retry the occasional lost packet, etc.
* the data is not very accurate, since the DC input of the inverter is
actually some cabling and a couple of junctions away from the actual
battery. this voltage drop can mostly only be estimated and is worse
with higher load. the load correction factor is there to mitigate
this, but it has its own problems and is cumbersome to calibrate.
instead, this change aims to use more accurate battery voltage readings,
if possible. the DPL now prefers the voltage as reported by the BMS,
since it is for sure the closest to the battery of all measuring points
and measures its voltage accurately regardless of the load (the voltage
reading will still drop with higher loads, but this will be only due to
the battery's internal resistance, not that of cabling or junctions). if
no BMS voltage reading is available, the DPL will instead use the charge
controller's voltage reading, as it is available with much higher
frequency and is assumed to be more accurate as it offers a resolution
of 10mV. only if none of these two sources can be used, the inverter DC
input voltage is assumed as the battery voltage.
closes#655.
the Victron SmartShunt communicates the SoC value in permille. this
should be displayed in the web UI accordingly. this is a good excuse to
fully move ownership of the SoC value to the BatteryStats base class and
add a precision indicator variable. this is required to be set each time
a derived class (a battery provider) wants to update the SoC value. the
precision is then used when populating the JSON data for the web UI
(live view).
related to #573.
