"hickup" values on steady light

[J. Zielke]

Hi,

I've installed some solar energy panels which generate more power than I mostly use during normal operation (e.g. injecting the rest into the grid). That causes my Norax 3D mezer to show a steady pulse light (which equals 0 or "no power consumed"). HaGLow also ready this as as 0 but sometimes it causes some "hickups" in the data stream where short spikes are reported out of nowhere. It there any way to compensate this behaviour? Or a dup of #284 and #274 ?

[J. Zielke]

BTW: I hope I don't have to worry about the exclamation mark on the meter. According to the manual it means "negative results" (e.g. the solar energy being injected). I also had to add timeout: 15s to the pulse meter in order to make HaGlow report 0 KW when it comes to a stop.

[Klaas Schoute]

Maybe when you try the method option, mentioned here

[J. Zielke]

Thanks @klaasnicolaas, however the graph shown above is showing the actual power consumption, not the total daily energy your comment is referring to. I have now modified the following configuration and will report back.

Maybe the steady light coming up from time to time confuses the pulsmeter. This happens multiple times when a big cloud for example reduces solar power and then when it's shining again the meter goes into halt state.

  - platform: pulse_meter
    # ...
    internal_filter_mode: PULSE
    internal_filter: 10ms

    # reports 0 KW when pulse light goes steady
    # (e.g. no energy consumed or more injected by solar)
    timeout: 15s

[Klaas Schoute]

Actually, the glow is not really suitable for houses with solar panels, the pulse LED therefore behaves in a way that makes measuring difficult.

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[J. Zielke]

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