APIs

GivEnergy have a number of APIs available to monitor and interact with the service.

Details can be found here
https://kb.givenergy.cloud/article.php?id=5

Thread for discussions about these

I know it's the bane of developers lives but could we get (more) complete descriptions for the property values? Things like pacs don't mean anything to me.
Also that page needs to be updated to use https urls, I spent a lot of time head scratching about that.

I've got a bit of Python code that'll login and call the plant summary API which I can throw on GitHub if anyone wants it.
disclaimer: I'm not a Python engineer so the code might be terrible 😉

MrChaz Apologies. It looks like this issue just wasn't forwarded to us and has been resolved.

Feel free to upload your own ideas and code and we're happy to look into it

MrChaz

what is your code doing? What are you using the summary data api for?

I want to support devlopers writing their own code as that helps us all. If it already exists thats even better.
If there is enough interest I may even be able to help organise a virtual "hackathon", that could be interesting

For now, getting the core components esily consumable is my focus.

FYI Summary.api and chart.api will be refactored soon. Currently they use session based cookies. They will become RESTful like the battery.api As we have the bonnet up if there are additional requirements that should go in there, this is the opportunity to say

Simon

Well right now it doesn't really do anything 😆
I've got two plans for the short term:

1. A little summary of generation and consumption for the day that I'll put on a little pi screen

2. A dashboard that shows if there's headroom to run various appliances given the current generation levels. The idea being to work out the difference between a base period and a load period for each thing and then compare that against current figures

For what it's worth I'll try and keep this up to date as I play around https://github.com/MrChaz/GivEnergyPy

Are there any plans to offer an API to pull the data held in the cards? Im interested in the calculated 'Total Estimated Costs". I realise I could do it myself.... but more than happy to seal someone else's calculations instead!

Simon
Noone has asked for it yet ( until now ). Vote it up and you never know ;-)

would it be possible to get the battery temperature aded into the BatteryData API and made available in the two BatteryData calls?
I'd like to monitor this, especially as we are geting into the colder weather now and I've only had my system in for a week or so.

godfreym As a quick fix It's on the older style API but not the new as far as I'm aware:
Call is:
https://www.givenergy.cloud/GivManage/api/pcs/batCell/getBatCellData?serialNum={{InvSN}}

hoggy Thanks hoggy
I would like to do this from within Home Assistant and while I can see the data using postman, I'm still gettng to grips with HA and using the older style API calls is beyond my ablilities at the moment.
The new api I can handle :-)

I may be missing this, but I can’t obviously see the ability to query battery health data /capacity data etc.

This would be used for logging, tracking and predictions on when a new battery might be needed etc.

Can someone point me at the appropriate API calls?

kram

Please refer to the new API docs https://community.givenergy.cloud/d/251-official-givenergy-api-v1-released for any information regarding your inverter / battery data.

For the time being, capacity data is not available but the battery health is available via the system data API call of the inverter

edit: If you have any question, feel free to follow up on that thread