`test_peakguard.py` is flaky on the required `checks / unit (pull_request)`
context. Reproduced, measured and removed - not widened, and nothing skipped:
the file still carries all of SAFETY-07 and SAFETY-25, and gains a check.
TWO MECHANISMS, both the control law's own gain `900 / remaining` applied to a
wall-clock gap this file never meant to have.
1. THE CROSS-TIME PROJECTION (the "one cycle of the intent form..." check).
`_proj3` was a SECOND `PeakTracker.project(b3.p1.averager, datetime.now())`
taken after the real cycle had already returned, and its result was compared
against a floor decided from the FIRST projection - while the comment three
lines above says both forms run "against the same frozen projection".
`excess = 900 x (projected - ceiling) / remaining` moves at `excess /
remaining` W/s, so at a 1500 W floor the 1.5 W tolerance bought exactly
`remaining / 1000` seconds: 333 ms with 880 s left in the quarter and 6 ms
with 10 s left (measured by bisection, probe in the PR). The gap between the
two statements measured 12.7-39.5 ms over 26 instrumented runs, so the check
was decided by WHERE IN THE QUARTER it ran, about `gap_ms / 900` of the time.
FIX: `_recording_decide` keeps the Projection OBJECT the real cycle graded.
Both forms are now decided from it, the clock is out of the comparison, and
the tolerance is EXACT rather than 1.5 W. Measured on a real cycle: the
delivered form re-decided from that object reproduces the controller's own
floor to 0.000000000000 W, and the identity holds to 0.000000000000 W.
It also gains a check - that re-decide now pins `_kw` as main.py's actual
call rather than an approximation of it.
2. THE FIXTURE'S OWN ROOM (the three `wired_over_limit` checks named on the
card: "the real cycle files the peak claim...", "...and the number written to
the inverter is the guard's floor", "the STATUS PAGE row for a floor-limited
guard..."). `range(0, span + 1, 5)` leaves 0-5 s of the open block uncovered
by construction, and `excess` multiplies an uncovered second back up by
`900 / remaining`:
floor ~ want x (1 - uncovered/900) - net_w x uncovered / remaining
Measured on this tree, shipped: at 12 s of remaining a fixture that asked for
a 1500 W floor delivered 613 W (-59 %), and at 2 s the guard did not engage
at all - which fails all three of those checks together. The four-attempt
retry cannot help, because four attempts take ~40 ms and all land in the same
dying quarter.
FIX: one telegram stamped at `now` (which is what a real meter does and what
the docstring already claimed), plus FIXTURE_ROOM_S - the helper waits out
the tail of a quarter it cannot size a fixture in. 24 s is DERIVED from the
1 % accuracy the helper promises, at this file's smallest fixture and the
measured 0.1 s worst-case lag, not picked:
net_w x lag / (remaining x want) <= 0.01 - lag/900
remaining >= 3500 x 0.1 / (1500 x 0.00989) = 23.6 s
Same probe after the fix: -0.3 % at 12 s, -0.5 % at 8 s, still engaged at 2 s.
NO TIMEOUT WAS WIDENED, no check skipped, no xfail. One tolerance was made
STRICTER (1.5 W -> exact) because removing the clock made exactness possible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
GoodWe RS485 Controller — Home Assistant add-on repository
Replaces a GoodWe battery inverter's vendor controller with a local one: holds net grid exchange at zero by emulating the inverter's smart meter over RS485, and runs the monthly battery maintenance cycle the vendor box was doing.
repository.yaml add-on repository metadata
goodwe_controller/ the add-on
config.yaml manifest + options schema (the per-site config form)
app/ the controller
control.py the control law — pure functions, no I/O
maintenance.py the monthly cycle state machine
hass.py Supervisor/Core API access
store.py persistent state in /data
mqtt.py optional status entities
web.py ingress UI
main.py orchestration, heartbeat, failsafe behaviour
test_control.py runnable checks — no framework needed
test_maintenance.py runnable checks — walks a full cycle in fake time
DOCS.md the add-on's documentation tab
MUTATION.md how to run a mutation so the result means something
tools/mutation_run.sh the mutation harness - purges bytecode, then grades
firmware/goodwe-master.yaml ESPHome config for the T-CAN485
estop/rs485_log.py optional RS485 e-stop / bus witness
docs/GoodWe-RS485-Field-Guide.pdf the guide techs carry (10pp, A4)
docs/build_guide.py its single source - rebuilds the HTML and PDF
FIELD-GUIDE.md how to edit and rebuild the guide
Picking this up after a break? Read HANDOVER.md first — current state,
what is known broken, and what to do next.
Install
Settings → Add-ons → Add-on store → ⋮ → Repositories → add
https://gittea.kammenstraatha.duckdns.org/admin/goodwe-addon
then install GoodWe RS485 Controller.
⚠️ The repository must be PUBLIC for this to work. Home Assistant clones it
anonymously; against a private repo the store shows nothing and gives no useful
error. If it must stay private, install locally instead: copy
goodwe_controller/ into the machine's /addons/ folder, then
ha store reload — it appears as a Local add-on.
⚠️ Bump version: in goodwe_controller/config.yaml for every change.
Supervisor keys the built image by that version, so without a bump it silently
reuses the old image and your fix appears not to work — on your bench and on
every client's machine.
Requires Home Assistant OS or Supervised. Add-ons cannot be installed on HA Container or Core.
Read this first
The inverter holds its last command forever. It has no meter-timeout of its own — a controller that dies mid-command leaves the battery running until a human intervenes. Measured on real hardware: 5 kW of discharge held for 113 seconds after a controller went silent.
Three layers exist because of that, and only the third covers the Home Assistant machine itself dying:
- ESP32 watchdog — no fresh setpoint for ~30 s → command 0 W, and keep commanding it.
- Wind-down before firmware updates — 0 W written before the update starts.
- RS485 e-stop (optional) — writes 0 W after 30 s of total bus silence.
Sites sold without the e-stop must have the acknowledgement in FIELD-GUIDE.md
§10 signed.
Development
The control law and the maintenance machine are pure Python with no Home Assistant imports, so they run anywhere:
cd goodwe_controller
python3 test_control.py
python3 test_maintenance.py
Both must pass before shipping any change. To prove a check bites - the way
almost every claim in this repository was established - mutate the module and
run tools/mutation_run.sh, which clears __pycache__ first. It is not
optional: a same-size edit reverted inside one second leaves CPython reusing the
old bytecode, and the run grades code that is not there. goodwe_controller/MUTATION.md
has the mechanism, the measurement, and what the flags do not do. They are not unit-test theatre —
each assertion corresponds to a rule whose absence produced an observed failure
on real hardware, and the comments in control.py say which.
Compatibility
Check the serial number, not the model name. Characters 6-8 of the serial are the platform tag:
| tag | platform | verdict |
|---|---|---|
ESU EMU ESA BPS BPU EMJ IJL |
105 — ES/EM/BP, AA55-era meter bus | supported |
SPB SPN |
745 — SBP G2 (GW…-SBP-20) |
no |
ESN ESC |
745 — ES G2 (GW…-ES-20) |
no |
ETU EHU BTU … |
205/745/753 — ET/EH/BT hybrids | no |
SDT DST MSU NSU … |
PV-only inverters — no battery to control | no |
A "-20" or "G2" suffix means a different platform with a different meter
protocol. The tags come from the goodwe library's PLATFORM_105_MODELS, which
is also what Home Assistant's own integration uses to pick a protocol.
- GoodWe ES / BP family inverters (AA55 / RS485 meter-bus generation)
- The protocol is reverse-engineered. There is no vendor contract, and a firmware change on GoodWe's side could break every installation at once. Say so when you sell it.