Hello everyone,
As part of optimizing my consumption of photovoltaic production, I would like to be able to start an air conditioner (or something else) in order to cool or heat the house with the excess energy produced. I would like to be able to create an applet that turns on the air conditioner when the production exceeds, for example, 1500w consumption. Is it possible to use the variable "to grid" as a trigger? Or do you have a better idea? Thanks in advance for your help and excuse me for my bad english (google translate ...)
Thierry
Hi,
The meter type of "grid" includes both "from-grid" and "to-grid".
when it is exporting energy to the grid, the grid power will show as negative.
So, you can use the grid type power as the trigger source and "less than" as the threshold selection.
For example,
you add a trigger condition, "if the grid power is less than -2kw, do ...."
This is equal to " when the export power is larger than 2kw, do ...."
Hi:
of course, IAMMETER indeed provides such features.
In fact, the main purpose that we provide such features is to help customers to improve the self-consumption rate in solar PV systems.
You can think of the auto-sending function as the trigger center of IAMMETER-cloud. You can trigger many operations here.
Thank you for your answer. This is actually what I did but there are only 3 possible choices (from grid, load or inverter). It would be interesting to be able to put as a parameter "to grid" as trigger. (If the electricity not consumed exceeds a certain value, trigger the air conditioner with ifttt). Or is there another solution? Thank you
