TEL-14: PV sign declared per entity (pv_invert_entities)
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Some PV entities (kWh meters, ESPHome clamps in the PV circuit) read positive
for consumption and negative for production. `pv_invert_entities` lists the
ones to flip; the flip is applied per member inside pv.total(), before the sum,
so the MQTT `pv` row and the status page carry the corrected figure. Default []
is byte-identical to 0.12.0.

Shape measured in supervisor_shape_probe.py section H (Supervisor 2026.08.0):
a parallel list validates the 0.12.0 blob unchanged and renders as its own
translated repeatable field; dicts on pv_entities refuse 0.12.0's stored
strings; a prefix is invisible syntax; a global bool cannot describe a mixed
roster. Status page marks flipped entities and cautions per entity below
-50 W, saying ADD or REMOVE. Telemetry only: control documents unchanged.

Record: DECISIONS/TEL-14-pv-sign.md (reverses TEL-11 section 2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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glenn schrooyen
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@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ either direction, and the check is mutation-tested both ways.
| `setpoint_entity` | yes | The ESPHome `number.*_goodwe_setpoint_w` |
| `pv_entity` | | Optional. **One** solar inverter's power sensor, `+` = producing. Measurement only — it changes no control behaviour. See [PV production](#pv-production-pv_entity-tel-11) |
| `pv_entities` | | Optional. **Several** solar inverters, one row each — use this instead of `pv_entity` when your roof has more than one. Setting it **ignores** `pv_entity`. See [Several PV inverters](#several-pv-inverters-pv_entities-tel-12) |
| `pv_invert_entities` | | Optional. The PV entities above that read **negative** while producing; each one's sign is flipped. See [The sign](#the-sign-and-pv_invert_entities-tel-14) |
Use the ESP32's readings rather than the inverter's cloud or dongle sensors:
those serve cached values, and a stale reading here ends the maintenance charge
@@ -456,21 +457,15 @@ Only the third is a software defect, and **none of them can be told apart
without a record of production.** This entity is that record. The attribution
itself is OPT-10's, with a week of history behind it.
#### The sign, and why there is no `pv_invert`
#### The sign, and `pv_invert_entities` (TEL-14)
**Positive must mean producing.** That is the same convention as the two sign
rules the add-on already ships — `meter_entity` is positive when **importing**
and `batt_entity` is positive when **discharging**, both of which are "power
arriving at the house" — and production arrives there too.
`meter_invert` and `batt_invert` exist because those two quantities are
**bipolar and are read by the control path**: a reversed battery sensor is a
perfectly plausible number that the per-inverter sign failsafe then acts on.
Production is unipolar and is read by **nothing**, so a reversed sensor here
cannot mislead a decision — and it announces itself immediately as −4 kW at
noon in the very history this entity creates. A flag would only hide it, so
there is not one. If your sensor really is inverted, fix it where it is
produced.
**Positive must mean producing.** Some sensors — typically a kWh meter or an
ESPHome power clamp in the PV circuit — read negative while producing and a few
watts positive at night: list each of those in `pv_invert_entities`, spelled as
in `pv_entity`/`pv_entities`, and its sign is flipped before the sum; the status
page marks it `[sign inverted]` and cautions on any entity reading below −50 W.
History recorded before you set it keeps the old sign. See
`DECISIONS/TEL-14-pv-sign.md`.
#### The unit is read off the entity