TEL-11: PV production stops being invisible, and stays out of the control law
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OPT-10 measured that this site's pack reaches 90 % SoC on 2 days of 16 and that
20.5 kWh of surplus left the site while the pack had room - 12.6 kWh of it with
the battery not charging at all - and could not say WHY, because PV production
is recorded NOWHERE. Three causes need three different fixes (no irradiance:
nothing to fix; a charge-power limit; the optimiser declining to charge, which
is the only software defect) and guessing between them is how an optimiser gets
tuned to solve a cloud problem. This card adds the channel. It does not do the
attribution.

AN HA ENTITY, NOT A REGISTER, AND THAT IS A PRODUCT DECISION. This add-on's
RS485 bus carries the BATTERY inverter it drives; a household's PV inverter is
normally a different box from a different vendor reporting into Home Assistant
through its own integration. `pv_entity` takes whatever `sensor.*` the site's
own PV integration provides, any brand HA can read.

POSITIVE IS PRODUCTION, AND THERE IS NO `pv_invert`. The convention is derived
rather than assumed: `meter_entity` is positive when IMPORTING and `batt_entity`
is positive when DISCHARGING (DOCS.md, Sources), both of which are "power
arriving at the house's AC bus", and production arrives there too. Those two
keys carry invert flags because they are BIPOLAR and are READ BY THE CONTROL
PATH - `inv.batt` feeds SAFETY-30's per-unit sign check and SAFETY-31's
circulating-power sensor, so a reversed sensor hands the site a plausible number
it acts on. Production is unipolar and is read by nothing: a reversed sensor
announces itself as -4 kW at noon in the very history this card creates, and a
flag would only let an installer hide it. No negative-value alarm either - a PV
inverter's own standby draw makes a small negative reading at night ordinary, so
any threshold would be a number nobody measured.

ABSENCE IS NEVER ZERO, AND "DROPPED" IS NOT ABSENT. `publish()` SKIPS a None,
which is right for `circulation` and exactly wrong here: a skipped row leaves
Home Assistant holding the last number forever and the recorder draws a FLAT
LINE through the outage, which is indistinguishable from a measurement and
manufactures the "there was no surplus" conclusion this card exists to TEST. So
the absence is published, with HA's own payload: `mqtt/const.py` declares
`PAYLOAD_NONE = "None"` and `mqtt/sensor.py` tests it BEFORE the numeric branch,
so the entity's state becomes `unknown` and the recorder stores a GAP. Read out
of home-assistant/core `dev` on 2026-09-24 and quoted at the constant.
`ABSENT_AS_UNKNOWN` is a one-key set and the suite asserts `circulation: None`
is STILL dropped.

THE UNIT IS READ OFF THE ENTITY. `mW`, `W`, `kW`, `MW`, `GW`, `TW` - HA's own
`UnitOfPower`, every factor an exact power of ten. A sensor with no unit, or a
unit outside that table, is REFUSED by name and the status page says which.
`read_inputs()`'s `abs(raw) < 50` kW-or-W guess is safe for a quarter-hour
demand forecast and is NOT safe here: 30 W of dusk is an ordinary reading and
that heuristic would publish it as 30 kW.

GENUINELY OPTIONAL, AND NOT A SECOND `price_now_entity`. validate.py does not
mention the key - it cannot conflict with anything, because nothing else reads
it. The MQTT row lives in a new `OPTIONAL_SENSORS` list whose `include` argument
DEFAULTS TO EMPTY, so every caller that has never heard of `pv_entity` -
test_mqtt.py's fixtures, tools/rehearse_roster.py, anything written next year -
announces exactly what it announced before. Unset: no state call at all, no
entity, no topic, no status row, no page row. Set and failing: a CAUTION
(`ok=False, warn=True`), never a `bad` row, so a telemetry channel can never put
a battery site into NOT READY.

IT MUST NOT BECOME A CONTROL INPUT, AND THAT IS GRADED TWICE. `test_pv.py`
part 6 drives 40 cycles of the real `cycle()` and asserts the commands are
bit-identical across unset / no reading / 0 W / 8 kW, with a COMPUTED census
(33 modules under app/) showing the material is mentioned in exactly three:
pv.py, main.py, mqtt.py. `tools/tel11_pv_trace.py` is the cross-tree half -
`safety56_behaviour_trace.py`'s pattern with a DIFFERENT control clause, because
this card's claim is that nothing differs rather than that only sentences do: it
REFUSES unless the two `app/` fingerprints differ and unless exactly one side
reacts to the option. Measured on 41 stimulus cells:

    control   release/1.0 unset  846a10a5b89e321086d535825925721e2f791012e8405948d4fd38d3f9d0be5f
    control   TEL-11      unset  846a10a5b89e321086d535825925721e2f791012e8405948d4fd38d3f9d0be5f
    control   TEL-11      set    846a10a5b89e321086d535825925721e2f791012e8405948d4fd38d3f9d0be5f
    telemetry release/1.0 unset  a443a6ceaffe072b44bcd5f2ad946c1ed6c9e01b69e278eca631f7f4d7892164
    telemetry TEL-11      unset  a443a6ceaffe072b44bcd5f2ad946c1ed6c9e01b69e278eca631f7f4d7892164
    telemetry TEL-11      set    4e6d1cb289a957223ad0205f732a6fec6110ce1f2032c98ad60694e67625274f

UNSET is byte-identical in BOTH documents, which is stronger than "the control
path is untouched": an install that does not set the option sees no change of
any kind, announcement and status rows included.

⚠️ AND THE CARD'S CENTRAL MUTATION WAS A SURVIVOR ON THE FIRST BATTERY.
`self.grid -= self.pv_w` in `read_inputs()` - +106 B, on disk, purged, genuinely
running - came back GREEN, because the fixture drove a 6 kW export over 12
cycles, which puts the loop AGAINST ITS RAIL: a command moving `slew_w` every
cycle produces the same ramp for -6000 W and for -14 000 W of apparent error.
MUTATION.md habit 23 with a saturated ACTUATOR in place of a coinciding value,
and it is in that file now as the habit's second instance. The fixture now
drives a 600 W import the loop SETTLES on, against a responsive meter, and asks
habit 23's own question as its own check: shift the METER by the same 8 kW and
confirm the commands really would have moved.

Evidence: 31/31 suites green in the CI image, checks.yml's exact command, purged
tree, `:ro`. Ten mutations, NO survivors, each on its own `cp -a` of the tree so
habit 18's revert hazard is closed by construction - table in
`DECISIONS/TEL-11-pv-production.md` §7 with byte deltas and sha256s.

⚠️ THIS IS A RUNTIME CHANGE BEHIND AN UNCHANGED VERSION, AND
`tools/predeploy_check.py` WILL REFUSE IT. `app/`, `config.yaml` and
`translations/` are all in its `RUNTIME` tuple and `config.yaml` still reads
0.10.1, so the gate reports a NO-OP deploy until a version is cut. That is PKG's
call and this card does not take it.

No CHANGELOG section: `test_version_gate.py` 11b refuses a newest `## ` heading
that is not config.yaml's `version:`, and opening one would mean taking that
same packaging decision. The operator account is in DOCS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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glenn schrooyen
2026-09-24 15:35:07 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 9f6b9f14cd
commit 07ba3433ed
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@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ from .inverter import (LINK_STALE_S, UNIT_A, build_roster,
from .maintenance import (
IDLE, POWER_MOVING, MaintConfig, Maintenance, arbitrate as maint_arbitrate,
)
from .mqtt import (MqttPublisher, announced_units, unit_slugs,
from .mqtt import (MqttPublisher, announced_units, optional_keys, unit_slugs,
unit_state_key)
from . import peakguard
from . import packshare
from . import pv as pv_read
from . import shadow
from .p1 import P1Ingest, build_source, is_enabled
from .price import Uncertainty, price_option, provider_configured
@@ -872,6 +873,22 @@ class Controller:
self.loop_i_lead = 0.0
self.loop_reason = "not-running"
self.loop_w = None # what the loop asked for last cycle, or None
# --- TEL-11: the site's PV production, and NOTHING READS IT ----------
# ⚠️ INSTRUMENTATION. It is published, it is shown on the status page,
# and it reaches no decision: not `inputs_ok`, not the allocator, not
# the arbiter, not a claim, not a watchdog. Wiring it into the control
# law would be an unrequested behaviour change on a system driving a
# real battery AND would destroy the measurement, because the loop would
# then react to the quantity being measured. `tools/tel11_pv_trace.py`
# is the instrument that says so, on both trees and both settings.
#
# ⚠️ `None` IS A READING THAT DOES NOT EXIST, AND IT IS SEEDED AS ONE.
# Nothing here ever becomes 0.0 by default; see `app/pv.py`.
self.pv_w = None
# Why there is no reading, in words the page prints - or, on a good
# read, the UNIT the value came in. Never empty.
self.pv_why = ("not configured" if not self.pv_entity
else "not read yet")
# Did the grid-following loop actually win the LAST arbitration? That is
# the question SAFETY-02 has to ask about the command standing on the
# wire right now, so it is recorded when the arbitration happens rather
@@ -1651,6 +1668,38 @@ class Controller:
for inv in self.inverters)
# -- io ------------------------------------------------------------------
@property
def pv_entity(self) -> str:
"""The configured PV production entity, or `""`. TEL-11.
⚠️ ONE READING OF THE OPTION, and `mqtt.optional_keys()` is graded
against it: the thing that decides whether the row is ANNOUNCED and the
thing that decides whether it is READ have to be the same predicate, or
the add-on ends up with an entity nothing feeds or a topic nothing
declared. `announced_units()` in mqtt.py is the same argument for the
roster, in its own words.
"""
return str(self.o.get("pv_entity") or "").strip()
async def _read_pv(self) -> None:
"""This cycle's PV production, or an ABSENCE with a reason. TEL-11.
⚠️ IT ASSIGNS ON EVERY CALL, INCLUDING THE FAILING ONES. Leaving the
last good number standing through an outage is what `circulation` does
on purpose - there, a stale figure beats a zero that reads as health -
and it is exactly wrong here: this row is read back as HISTORY, and a
value that persists through an outage is indistinguishable from a real
one at the moment somebody is trying to work out whether the sun was
shining.
⚠️ `hass.state()` RATHER THAN `hass.number()`, because the UNIT is half
the reading. See `pv.watts()`: a PV integration may publish kW, and
there is no magnitude heuristic that can separate 30 W of dusk from
30 kW of noon.
"""
self.pv_w, self.pv_why = pv_read.watts(
await self.hass.state(self.pv_entity))
async def read_inputs(self, now_mono: float | None = None) -> None:
"""Every input this cycle needs, and SAFETY-37's freshness verdict.
@@ -1682,8 +1731,26 @@ class Controller:
# names for the WRITE path, one function up. Within a unit the order is
# unchanged (SoC, then battery power), so at the shipped roster of one
# this is the same two calls in the same order.
await asyncio.gather(*(self._read_unit(inv, now_mono)
for inv in self.inverters))
#
# --- TEL-11: AND THE PV READ RIDES IN THIS SAME GATHER ---------------
# ⚠️ IN THE GATHER RATHER THAN ON A LINE OF ITS OWN, AND THAT IS THE
# WHOLE "OBSERVABILITY MUST NOT BE ABLE TO DELAY CONTROL" DECISION.
# This coroutine feeds the ESP32 heartbeat; a sequential read would add
# its own worst case - `hass.state()`'s 10 s timeout - to every cycle,
# so a hung PV sensor at a client site would push a healthy battery
# towards layer 1's ~30 s veto for the sake of a telemetry row.
# Gathered, its latency OVERLAPS reads that already happen and the
# added worst case is zero. `peak_forecast_entity` below is read
# serially and stays that way because it is a CONTROL input (the
# capacity guard sizes off it), so the site is entitled to wait for it.
#
# ⚠️ AND AN UNSET `pv_entity` APPENDS NOTHING. Not a coroutine, not an
# HTTP call, not a log line: at the shipped default this gather is the
# same list of the same coroutines it has always been.
_reads = [self._read_unit(inv, now_mono) for inv in self.inverters]
if self.pv_entity:
_reads.append(self._read_pv())
await asyncio.gather(*_reads)
if o.get("peak_forecast_entity"):
raw = await self.hass.number(o["peak_forecast_entity"])
# Accept kW or W - nobody's quarter-hour forecast is 50 W.
@@ -4397,6 +4464,24 @@ class Controller:
"loop_lead": round(self.loop_i_lead, 1),
"loop_reason": self.loop_reason,
}
# --- TEL-11 ----------------------------------------------------------
# ⚠️ THE KEY IS PRESENT WITH THE VALUE `None` WHEN THERE IS NO READING,
# AND ABSENT ENTIRELY WHEN THERE IS NO SOURCE. Those are two different
# states and the publisher treats them as two: `mqtt.ABSENT_AS_UNKNOWN`
# turns the first into HA's own `None` payload, so the entity's state
# goes to `unknown` and the recorder records a GAP - which is how a
# reader of a week of history tells "no PV reported" from "PV reported
# 0 W". The second never reaches the broker at all, because an install
# that never set `pv_entity` has no such entity announced.
#
# ⚠️ AND THE GATE IS `optional_keys()`, THE SAME EXPRESSION THE
# ANNOUNCEMENT USES. Written as a second predicate here the two could
# disagree, and both directions are bad - an announced entity nothing
# feeds, or a topic nothing declared. `announced_units()` two blocks
# down is the same discipline for the roster.
if "pv" in optional_keys(self.o):
values["pv"] = (None if self.pv_w is None
else round(self.pv_w, 1))
# ⚠️ ONLY when P1 ingestion is actually running. The ESP32's stale-input
# watchdog subscribes to sensor.goodwe_p1_sample_age - see the entity-id
# note in mqtt.py; the composed name is not the object_id - and forces layer-1
@@ -4914,6 +4999,34 @@ class Controller:
# is both is a check nobody reads.
out.append({"ok": False, "warn": True,
"text": "no peak forecast: maintenance charging is not capacity-capped"})
# --- TEL-11 ----------------------------------------------------------
# ⚠️ NO ROW AT ALL WHEN `pv_entity` IS UNSET, AND THAT IS A DELIBERATE
# DIFFERENCE FROM THE PEAK-FORECAST CAUTION DIRECTLY ABOVE. That one
# nags because an unset forecast entity leaves a MONEY GUARD without an
# input; this one is pure instrumentation, and a permanent caution on
# every install that never asked for a PV channel is exactly the
# "no warning spam, no degraded status row" the card forbids.
#
# ⚠️ AND WHEN IT IS SET, A FAILED READ IS `ok=False, warn=True` - a
# CAUTION, never `bad`. `status_payload()` builds "NOT READY" from rows
# that are neither ok nor warn, and a telemetry channel that could put a
# battery site into NOT READY would be observability with a foot in the
# control path. The reason comes from `pv.watts()` rather than being
# re-derived here, so the page cannot disagree with the reading.
if self.pv_entity:
if self.pv_w is None:
out.append({"ok": False, "warn": True,
"text": f"PV production: no reading from "
f"{self.pv_entity} - {self.pv_why}"})
else:
# habit 14: the value sits inside its own literal text, in its
# own slot, beside the entity it was read from and the unit it
# was read in - so a transposition of any two of the three is
# visible in the sentence rather than merely present in it.
out.append({"ok": True, "warn": False,
"text": f"PV production: {self.pv_w:.0f} W from "
f"{self.pv_entity} (reported in "
f"{self.pv_why})"})
return out
def status_payload(self) -> dict:
@@ -5033,6 +5146,13 @@ class Controller:
# identically zero and a permanent "0 W" row would be noise.
*(() if len(self.inverters) <= 1
else ((("Circulating", w(self.site_circulating_w)),))),
# TEL-11, and ONLY when a source is configured - see `checks()`.
# `w(None)` renders "—", which is how this row says "no reading"
# rather than "0 W". It sits beside Grid and Battery because the
# question it answers is the one those two cannot: at "Grid 0 W,
# Battery 0 W" the site is either becalmed or throwing away every
# watt it makes, and only this row separates them.
*(() if not self.pv_entity else ((("PV", w(self.pv_w)),))),
("State of charge", "—" if self.pack_floor_soc is None
else f"{self.pack_floor_soc:g} %"),
("Commanded", w(self.target)),
@@ -5306,6 +5426,11 @@ async def amain() -> None:
broker.get("username") if broker else None,
broker.get("password") if broker else None,
omit=() if is_enabled(opts) else ("p1_age",),
# TEL-11. ⚠️ THE SHIPPED PREDICATE, NOT A SECOND READING OF THE
# OPTION - `Controller.publish()` gates the row on this same
# call. An install that never set `pv_entity` announces exactly
# what it announced before: no topic, no entity, no row.
include=optional_keys(opts),
# TEL-07. ⚠️ THE NAMES, NOT A ROSTER. `build_roster()` here
# would construct a SECOND set of `Inverter`s off the same
# Store, minutes before `Controller.__init__` constructs the
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@@ -117,6 +117,62 @@ SENSORS = [
("loop_reason", "goodwe_loop_reason", "Loop reason", None, None, None, "mdi:sigma"),
]
# --- TEL-11: rows that exist ONLY when the operator configured a source ------
#
# ⚠️ A SECOND LIST RATHER THAN A TENTH ENTRY IN `SENSORS`, AND THE DEFAULT IS
# WHAT MAKES IT ONE. `SENSORS` is announced by every caller of
# `discovery_payloads()`; `OPTIONAL_SENSORS` is announced only by a caller that
# ASKS, so a caller that has not been taught about `pv_entity` - `test_mqtt.py`'s
# fixtures, `tools/rehearse_roster.py`, anything written next year - announces
# exactly what it announced before. `p1_age` solves the same problem the other
# way round, with `omit`, because `p1_age` is announced by DEFAULT and withdrawn
# when the meter is off; this one does not exist by default and appears when a
# source for it does. Getting that direction wrong is the hazard `omit`'s own
# note names: an entity that exists and is never fed is a worse signal than one
# that does not exist at all, and MOST installs will never set `pv_entity`.
#
# ⚠️ `state_class: measurement` IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE ROW. It is what puts
# the number into the recorder's long-term statistics, and a week of statistics
# is what OPT-10 needs to say whether the surplus that left this site was cloud,
# a charge-power limit, or the optimiser declining to charge.
OPTIONAL_SENSORS = [
("pv", "goodwe_pv_power", "PV power", "W", "power", "measurement", None),
]
# ⚠️ HA's OWN "this sensor has no value" PAYLOAD, and the one place this add-on
# spells it. `homeassistant/components/mqtt/const.py` declares
# `PAYLOAD_NONE = "None"` and `mqtt/sensor.py` tests it BEFORE the numeric
# branch - `if payload == PAYLOAD_NONE: self._attr_native_value = None` - so the
# entity's state becomes `unknown` rather than a number. (Read out of
# github.com/home-assistant/core `dev` on 2026-09-24; the shipped MQTT-sensor
# documentation says the same thing in its `state_topic` entry: "a 'None' value
# will set the sensor to an unknown state".)
PAYLOAD_NONE = "None"
# The keys whose ABSENCE MUST BE PUBLISHED rather than skipped. ⚠️ THIS IS THE
# DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "no PV reported" AND "PV reported 0 W" IN A WEEK OF
# HISTORY, AND WITHOUT IT THE CHANNEL LIES IN THE WORSE DIRECTION. `publish()`
# below drops a `None` - which is right for `circulation`, where the last figure
# standing is better than a zero that reads as health - but a DROPPED pv row
# leaves Home Assistant holding the last number it was told, forever, and the
# recorder then draws a flat line at that value through an outage. Someone
# reading it back would conclude the sun was not shining, which is precisely the
# conclusion this card exists to TEST rather than to manufacture.
ABSENT_AS_UNKNOWN = frozenset({"pv"})
def optional_keys(opts: dict) -> tuple:
"""Which `OPTIONAL_SENSORS` rows this configuration has a source for.
⚠️ ONE ANSWER TO "IS THE PV ROW LIVE", read by the ANNOUNCEMENT (through
`MqttPublisher`) and by `Controller.publish()`. `announced_units()` above
exists for exactly this reason and says it in full: two spellings of one
predicate is how an entity gets announced that nothing feeds, or fed on a
topic nothing announced.
"""
return ("pv",) if str(opts.get("pv_entity") or "").strip() else ()
BASE = "goodwe_ctl"
AVAILABILITY = f"{BASE}/availability"
@@ -299,15 +355,23 @@ def _payload(name, object_id, unique_id, state_topic, device,
return cfg
def discovery_payloads(units=(), omit=()) -> list:
def discovery_payloads(units=(), omit=(), include=()) -> list:
"""Every `(topic, payload)` this add-on announces, in announcement order.
Split out of `_announce()` so that the acceptance criterion can be graded as
a DIFF OF THE ANNOUNCED PAYLOADS against `release/1.0`, rather than as a
reading of the code. `_announce()` publishes exactly this list and nothing
else, which is itself checked.
`include` names `OPTIONAL_SENSORS` keys to announce. ⚠️ IT DEFAULTS TO
NOTHING AND THE ROWS GO LAST, so no existing row's POSITION moves under any
configuration - not the site rows, not the per-unit ones. Order is part of
the output here (`_payload()`'s note, and test_mqtt.py part 1 asserts an
ordered LIST precisely because a re-order is a zero-byte edit that
re-announces every entity on a live install).
"""
omit = set(omit)
include = [k for k in include if k not in omit]
out = []
for key, object_id, name, unit, dev_class, state_class, icon in SENSORS:
if key in omit:
@@ -336,12 +400,19 @@ def discovery_payloads(units=(), omit=()) -> list:
unique_id,
f"{BASE}/{unit_state_key(slug, key)}",
device, unit, dev_class, state_class, icon)))
for key, object_id, name, unit, dev_class, state_class, icon in OPTIONAL_SENSORS:
if key not in include:
continue
out.append((
f"homeassistant/sensor/{BASE}_{key}/config",
_payload(name, object_id, f"{BASE}_{key}", f"{BASE}/{key}",
DEVICE, unit, dev_class, state_class, icon)))
return out
class MqttPublisher:
def __init__(self, host, port, username=None, password=None, omit=(),
units=()):
units=(), include=()):
# `omit` drops sensor keys from discovery entirely. ⚠️ Announcing a
# sensor that nothing will ever publish to is not harmless here:
# p1_sample_age_s is a watchdog input, and an entity that exists but is
@@ -353,6 +424,10 @@ class MqttPublisher:
# per-unit is announced, so every caller that has not been taught about
# the roster keeps publishing what it published before.
self.units = [str(u) for u in units]
# TEL-11. `mqtt.optional_keys(opts)` - the shipped predicate, not a
# second reading of the option. Defaults to empty, so a caller that has
# not been taught about it announces exactly what it announced before.
self.include = [str(k) for k in include]
self.enabled = mqtt is not None and bool(host)
self.client = None
if not self.enabled:
@@ -389,7 +464,8 @@ class MqttPublisher:
# announcement, so the check that diffs it against `release/1.0` is
# diffing what actually goes on the wire - and a payload built here
# instead would be one this add-on publishes and no check has ever seen.
for topic, cfg in discovery_payloads(self.units, self.omit):
for topic, cfg in discovery_payloads(self.units, self.omit,
self.include):
self.client.publish(topic, json.dumps(cfg), retain=True)
self.client.publish(AVAILABILITY, "online", retain=True)
@@ -399,7 +475,16 @@ class MqttPublisher:
try:
for key, value in values.items():
if value is None:
continue
# ⚠️ TEL-11. A DROPPED ROW IS NOT AN ABSENT ROW. Skipping
# leaves Home Assistant holding the last value it was told,
# which is what `circulation` wants (its note in main.py
# says why) and is exactly wrong for a measurement somebody
# will read back as history: a flat line at the last number
# is indistinguishable from a real one. See
# `ABSENT_AS_UNKNOWN`.
if key not in ABSENT_AS_UNKNOWN:
continue
value = PAYLOAD_NONE
self.client.publish(f"{BASE}/{key}", str(value))
except OSError as err: # pragma: no cover
_LOG.debug("MQTT publish failed: %s", err)
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@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
"""TEL-11 - the site's PV production, read from a Home Assistant entity.
WHY THIS IS AN ENTITY AND NOT A REGISTER. This add-on's RS485 bus carries the
BATTERY inverter it drives. A household's PV inverter is, on nearly every site,
a different box from a different vendor that reports into Home Assistant
through its own integration - so the only place a product can read production
for an arbitrary install is an HA entity. `pv_entity` therefore takes whatever
`sensor.*` the site's own PV integration provides.
WHY THE CHANNEL EXISTS AT ALL. OPT-10 measured that 20.5 kWh of surplus left the
site in 16 days while the pack had room, 12.6 kWh of it with the battery not
charging at all - and could not say WHY, because PV production is recorded
NOWHERE. Three causes need three different fixes (no irradiance: nothing to fix;
a charge-power limit; the optimiser declining to charge - the only software
defect), and guessing between them is how an optimiser gets tuned to solve a
cloud problem. This module is the missing measurement and NOTHING ELSE.
⚠️ NOTHING HERE MAY EVER REACH A CONTROL DECISION, AND THAT IS THE CARD'S FIRST
CONSTRAINT RATHER THAN A STYLE NOTE. The add-on regulates a real battery; adding
production as a term of the control law would be an unrequested behaviour change
AND it would destroy the measurement, because the loop would then be reacting to
the quantity being measured. `tools/tel11_pv_trace.py` is what says the path is
untouched: it grades a control document that contains none of this material on
both trees and with `pv_entity` set and unset.
⚠️ ABSENCE IS NEVER ZERO, AND THAT IS THE SECOND CONSTRAINT. Every refusal below
returns `None` with a REASON, never `0.0`. A PV channel that reported 0 W for a
dead sensor would manufacture exactly the "there was no surplus to store"
conclusion the card exists to TEST - and it would do it silently, in a week of
recorder history nobody would re-derive. `app/hass.py`'s own note on `state()`
is the same rule one layer down.
THE SIGN CONVENTION: POSITIVE IS PRODUCTION. Derived from the two conventions
this add-on already ships rather than assumed:
`meter_entity` positive = IMPORTING from the grid (DOCS.md, Sources)
`batt_entity` positive = DISCHARGING the pack (DOCS.md, Sources)
Both are "positive = power arriving at the house's AC bus", and production
arrives there too. There is deliberately NO `pv_invert` to go with
`meter_invert` and `batt_invert`: those two quantities are BIPOLAR and are READ
BY THE CONTROL PATH - a reversed `batt_entity` feeds SAFETY-30's per-unit sign
check and SAFETY-31's circulating-power sensor with a plausible number the site
then acts on - whereas production is unipolar and is read by nothing. A reversed
PV sensor announces itself as -4 kW at noon in the very history this card
creates, and flipping it here would only hide it. See
`DECISIONS/TEL-11-pv-production.md` §2.
"""
from .hass import BAD_STATES
# Home Assistant's OWN power units, each as the number of watts one of it is.
# ⚠️ READ OUT OF HA, NOT LISTED FROM MEMORY: `UnitOfPower` in
# `homeassistant/const.py` (github.com/home-assistant/core, `dev`, retrieved
# 2026-09-24) declares mW, W, kW, MW, GW, TW and BTU/h. Every factor here is an
# exact power of ten, so none of them is a number anybody chose.
#
# ⚠️ BTU/h IS IN HA's ENUM AND DELIBERATELY NOT HERE. Its factor (0.293071…)
# is a measured conversion rather than a decimal shift, no PV integration
# publishes in it, and a wrong constant in the one channel that exists to
# attribute a 20.5 kWh shortfall is worse than a refusal an operator can read.
# It lands in the "not a power unit" refusal below, BY NAME.
WATTS_PER = {
"mW": 0.001,
"W": 1.0,
"kW": 1000.0,
"MW": 1000000.0,
"GW": 1000000000.0,
"TW": 1000000000000.0,
}
# What `watts()` answers when there is nothing to report. ⚠️ THE REASON IS PART
# OF THE RETURN VALUE, not a log line: it is what the status page prints, and an
# absence whose cause is invisible sends an operator to look at the wrong box.
UNIT_KEY = "unit_of_measurement"
def watts(state: dict | None) -> tuple:
"""`(watts, why)` from a Home Assistant state object.
`watts` is `None` whenever there is no reading - and `why` then says which
of the five refusals it was, in words an operator can act on. On a good read
`why` is the unit the value was read in, because "1234 W" and "1234, unit
unknown" are different claims and the page has to be able to make the first.
⚠️ THE UNIT IS READ OFF THE ENTITY AND NOT ASSUMED, AND THERE IS NO
MAGNITUDE HEURISTIC. `read_inputs()` guesses kW-or-W for
`peak_forecast_entity` with `abs(raw) < 50`, which is safe there because
nobody's quarter-hour demand forecast is 50 W. It is NOT safe here: 30 W of
real production at dusk is an ordinary reading, and that heuristic would
publish it as 30 kW - a fabricated number, in the channel whose entire
purpose is to be believed a week later. A sensor whose unit this cannot read
is REFUSED rather than guessed at.
"""
if state is None:
# `hass.state()` answers None for a non-existent entity, a 404 and a
# transport failure alike. All three are "no reading", and HA does not
# consider a non-existent entity an error - see `hass.state()`.
return None, "no state (entity missing, or the read failed)"
raw = str(state.get("state", "")).strip()
if raw.lower() in BAD_STATES:
# ⚠️ THE SAME LIST `hass.number()` REFUSES ON, IMPORTED RATHER THAN
# RESPELLED. A second copy of it is how one path starts treating
# `unavailable` as a number the other one rejects.
return None, f"entity is {raw or 'empty'}"
try:
value = float(raw)
except ValueError:
return None, f"state {raw!r} is not numeric"
unit = str((state.get("attributes") or {}).get(UNIT_KEY) or "").strip()
if not unit:
return None, ("no unit_of_measurement on the entity - it cannot be "
"read in watts")
if unit not in WATTS_PER:
return None, (f"unit {unit!r} is not one of "
f"{', '.join(WATTS_PER)} - it cannot be read in watts")
return value * WATTS_PER[unit], unit