Packaged as a Home Assistant add-on, with a field guide

Turns the reference RS485 controller into something a technician can install
at a client site: a typed config form instead of YAML, an ingress UI that
names misconfiguration in words, and persistent state that cannot be broken by
a timezone.

Why an add-on rather than YAML packages or blueprints:

- Blueprints cannot create helpers, and the maintenance cycle is a state
  machine whose phase and completion date must survive restarts.
- YAML packages need filesystem access, a configuration.yaml edit and a
  restart - none of which belong in a client install.
- Add-ons authenticate with SUPERVISOR_TOKEN, so there is no long-lived token
  to generate, store or leak on someone else's machine.
- Requires HA OS/Supervised. Container and Core installs cannot run add-ons at
  all, which is a market decision, not an oversight.

The control law and the maintenance machine are pure functions with no Home
Assistant imports, and both ship with runnable checks (22 and 22 assertions).
Every assertion corresponds to a rule whose absence caused an observed failure
on hardware - the saturation duration term, the clamp-before-slew ordering, the
deadband, the sign convention.

One behaviour deliberately differs from the implementation it replaces: when
its inputs go missing this commands 0 W rather than replaying the last
setpoint. The reference version kept replaying, which the hardware watchdog
cannot catch - from the ESP32's side, Home Assistant is still talking to it.

Includes the ESPHome firmware (now parameterised: node name, inverter rating,
watchdog timeout) and the optional RS485 e-stop. FIELD-GUIDE.md carries the
commissioning gates, all judged on the wire rather than on how Home Assistant
looks, plus the written statement a site without an e-stop needs signed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016NckgXecasQb2eSsPYNSW6

goodwe_controller/config.yaml

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+name: GoodWe RS485 Controller
+version: "0.1.0"
+slug: goodwe_controller
+description: >-
+  Drives a GoodWe ES/BP battery inverter over RS485 by emulating its smart
+  meter, holding net grid exchange at zero and running a monthly battery
+  maintenance cycle.
+url: https://github.com/REPLACE-ME/goodwe-addon
+arch:
+  - aarch64
+  - amd64
+  - armv7
+init: false
+startup: application
+boot: auto
+
+# Needed to read the meter and to write the ESPHome setpoint number.
+homeassistant_api: true
+hassio_api: true
+
+# Own diagnostics/operations UI inside HA. This is what a field tech and a
+# remote supporter both look at, so it is not optional.
+ingress: true
+ingress_port: 8099
+panel_icon: mdi:battery-sync
+panel_title: GoodWe
+
+# Optional: publish status entities by MQTT discovery. `want` rather than
+# `need` - the add-on runs fine with no broker, it just publishes nothing.
+services:
+  - mqtt:want
+
+options:
+  # --- sources (required) ---------------------------------------------------
+  meter_entity: sensor.p1_meter_active_power
+  meter_invert: false
+  soc_entity: ""
+  batt_entity: ""
+  batt_invert: false
+  setpoint_entity: ""
+
+  # --- control ---------------------------------------------------------------
+  max_w: 2000
+  gain: 0.6
+  slew_w: 1000
+  deadband_w: 15
+  step_w: 10
+  saturation_w: 500
+  saturation_cycles: 3
+  heartbeat_s: 10
+  stale_input_s: 15
+  auto_start: false
+
+  # --- maintenance -----------------------------------------------------------
+  maintenance_enabled: false
+  maintenance_interval_days: 28
+  maintenance_start_hour: 10
+  maintenance_discharge_w: 2500
+  maintenance_charge_w: 2500
+  maintenance_soc_floor: 11
+  maintenance_soc_target: 99
+  maintenance_hold_min: 120
+
+  # --- tariff / capacity tariff (all optional) ------------------------------
+  peak_forecast_entity: ""
+  peak_cap_w: 3500
+  price_now_entity: ""
+  price_avg_entity: ""
+
+  # --- site ------------------------------------------------------------------
+  estop_fitted: false
+  log_level: info
+
+schema:
+  meter_entity: str
+  meter_invert: bool
+  soc_entity: str
+  batt_entity: str
+  batt_invert: bool
+  setpoint_entity: str
+
+  max_w: int(100,5000)
+  gain: float(0.05,1.0)
+  slew_w: int(50,5000)
+  deadband_w: int(0,500)
+  step_w: int(1,100)
+  saturation_w: int(100,2000)
+  saturation_cycles: int(1,10)
+  heartbeat_s: int(2,25)
+  stale_input_s: int(5,120)
+  auto_start: bool
+
+  maintenance_enabled: bool
+  maintenance_interval_days: int(1,90)
+  maintenance_start_hour: int(0,23)
+  maintenance_discharge_w: int(500,5000)
+  maintenance_charge_w: int(500,5000)
+  maintenance_soc_floor: int(5,30)
+  maintenance_soc_target: int(50,100)
+  maintenance_hold_min: int(5,480)
+
+  peak_forecast_entity: str?
+  peak_cap_w: int(500,15000)
+  price_now_entity: str?
+  price_avg_entity: str?
+
+  estop_fitted: bool
+  log_level: list(trace|debug|info|warning|error)