Installation
Before proceeding, set up your Modbus adaptor first.
Installing the integration
Via HACS - recommended
Use this button to install the integration:
Manual installation
There should be no need to use this method, but this is how:
- Download the zip / tar.gz source file from the release page.
- Extract the contents of the zip / tar.gz
- In the folder of the extracted content you will find a directory 'custom_components'.
- Copy this directory into your Home-Assistant '
' directory so that you end up with this directory structure: ' /custom_components/solax_modbus - Restart Home Assistant Core
Pair your inverter
Now it's only needed to add your inverter to Home Assistant. - a) Click this button:
- b) if your setup does not support My Home Assistant:
- Navigate to your
Devices & services
. - Click
ADD INTEGRATION
- Search and select
SolaX Inverter Modbus
- Navigate to your
- You can have multiple instances of this Integration, just change the default Prefix from SolaX to something else. Ie.
SolaX Main
orSolaX Southwest
. - Select correct Modbus address, look at your inverter if the default one does not work.
- If you use RS485 to Ethernet adaptor:
- Enter IP address of your adaptor.
- If you use RS485 to USB adaptor:
- Select the right port.
- If your installation has a tendancy to swap between ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 you can define it by the id
- /dev/serial/by-id/usb-xyz
- Enter correct baud rate that does match setting on your inverter.