I hope AC and DC toggles are high priority and that the DC Hub will work when connected directly to the Apex. I think it should because it is then detected as part of the unit in the App. My next priorities would be Battery percentage and AC and DC real time usage monitoring followed by solar monitoring.
I was hoping that the Energy statistics could be shared. It would be nice to be able to track energy generation and usage through the Home assistant energy dashboard.
That is fantastic news!
I would love to use it with my AC200P L and attached B210.
I hope, they will get upgraded soon to support Home Assistant!
One set of parameters that I often adjust and that would be nice to control via HA, are the SOC Limits for UPS. (E.g. for balancing battery protection through minimum discharge and available energy buffer depending on the prediction of available sunlight.)
@aorr@msantic I think they focus at newer units first to sell them as “HomeAssistant ready”. But they also say, that every wifi enabled unit could be used with this in the feature. So its theoreticly possible, they just need to adjust for each unit
Looking forward to local only support next year as I’ve got a bunch of applications for which cloud and and internet dependence are simply not acceptable and right now that basically means Victron or some rather low end (and quality) products rather than anything nicely mobile.
To be fair, i understand their cloud only approach for the first time. Its way more easy to implement for them and use for the customer. If people dont use it, they can just shutdown without spend too much time and ressources.
The real good part is, that they finally listen to people that want something like this for ages now
Yes, and also because they need the cloud mode to work with Alexa which wouldn’t support anything local. Working on too much at once would slow down the rollout to more units. It’s not really much of a difference providing backup power to a local controller or to a router in the event of a power cut. I never lose internet in the UK when we have power cuts I think our local exchanges have battery backup also.
Would be great if the API from Bluetti also supported other third party smart home ecosystems like Hubitat. There’s a big Hubitat community and I would definitely get so much more functionality out of my Bluetti Apex 300 if it integrated into my Hubitat.
