goodwe-addon/HANDOVER.md

Handover — 2026-08-23

Start here. README.md is what the thing is; this is where it stands, what is known to be broken, and what to do next.

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1. State of the world

The add-on is controlling a real battery right now — the author's own house, a GoodWe GW5000S-BP.

running	local_goodwe_controller 0.2.0, boot: auto, holding grid at zero
installed as	a Local add-on: /addons/goodwe_controller on HA OS at 192.168.2.158
repo	Gitea admin/goodwe-addon (ssh://git@192.168.2.147:2222) — private
tuning	gain 0.6, max_w 5000, slew 1000, deadband 15, step 10, saturation 500/3, heartbeat 10 s
maintenance	disabled, and with no completion history — first cycle is "due" the moment it is enabled
e-stop	fitted at this site, Pi tap armed with --panic

The thing it replaced — a working Home Assistant YAML implementation — is parked at /config/packages_disabled_addon_migration/ on that machine. Rollback is: stop the add-on, move those four files back into /config/packages/, reload automations and helpers, switch input_boolean.goodwe_auto on.

⚠️ Never run both. They write the same setpoint. Two controllers on one actuator is the failure the whole design exists to prevent.

The research record — protocol, register map, why every tuning value is what it is, and a long "ruled out, do not re-investigate" list — lives in the other repo, Documents/goodwe, in NOTES.md. Read it before changing a constant.

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2. Deploying a change

# 1. edit under goodwe_controller/
# 2. BUMP version: in goodwe_controller/config.yaml        <-- not optional
scp -r goodwe_controller root@192.168.2.158:/addons/
ssh root@192.168.2.158 "ha store reload && ha addons update local_goodwe_controller"
ssh root@192.168.2.158 "ha addons logs local_goodwe_controller | tail -20"

⚠️ Supervisor keys the built image by version:. Without a bump it silently reuses the old image and your change appears not to work. This cost two rounds of "the fix doesn't work" in one evening. It applies to client updates too — a client only gets a change when the version increments.

Run the checks before deploying. No framework needed:

cd goodwe_controller
python3 test_control.py && python3 test_maintenance.py && python3 test_arbiter.py

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3. Known broken / unfinished

1. MQTT status entities are not adopted by Home Assistant. The add-on publishes correct discovery and live state — verified on the broker itself (goodwe_ctl/setpoint => 940.0). After the entities were deleted from the registry during development, HA would not re-adopt them, even after clearing the retained topics and reconnecting. Affects observability only; control is untouched. Try again after an HA restart, which is the cheapest next test.
2. The repository is private, so it cannot be used as an add-on repository URL — HA clones anonymously. Either make it public, or keep installing locally as at this site. Decide before the first client.
3. No real maintenance cycle has ever run. The mechanism is proven end-to-end in simulated time and partially on hardware, but a genuine low→full→hold cycle takes hours and has not happened. Do not decommission a client's vendor controller before one has.
4. The HA-side offline alarm is unproven. The Pi's 30 s panic write is the real cover; treat the HA alert as "within a few minutes".
5. Only platform 105 is supported — see §5.

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4. What to do next, in order

1. Peak shaving as a real strategy. This is why the arbiter exists, and it is now purely additive: a claim producer emitting Claim.set("peak", P_PEAK, …) from the quarter-hour forecast, plus a priority. Nothing existing needs to change — the maintenance charge-only limit already cannot bind it. Highest value per unit of work in a capacity-tariff market.
2. Run a full maintenance cycle at the reference site and record what it actually costs in energy and time.
3. Fleet health before more features. This system's signature failure is silent: an entity-id prefix killed two safety alarms for a day, a shebang made every call 401 while looking healthy. One site with the author watching found those. Twenty sites will not.
4. Decide the repository question (§3.2).

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5. The commercial question nobody has answered

A GoodWe "-20" / G2 inverter cannot be driven by this.

Platform comes from characters 6–8 of the serial number. Only ESU EMU ESA BPS BPU EMJ IJL — platform 105, the AA55-era meter bus — are supported. SBP G2 (SPB/SPN) and ES G2 (ESN/ESC) are platform 745, a different protocol. The reference unit is BPS.

That matters more than it first sounds: the SBP G2 is the model GoodWe currently sells to replace a GW5000S-BP. So today's product serves the installed base, not the base being installed. Everything above the firmware — control law, arbiter, maintenance, add-on, field guide — is protocol-agnostic and would carry over; only the register map is platform-specific.

Answering it is an afternoon: put the Pi tap passively on a G2 unit's meter bus with its vendor controller running, and capture. That either hands over the new register map or proves the approach does not transfer. Do this before building more features on top of a shrinking base.

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6. Things that will bite you

Each of these was found the expensive way. They are in the code comments too.

• run.sh must start #!/usr/bin/with-contenv sh. s6-overlay sanitises the environment, so a plain shebang means no SUPERVISOR_TOKEN and every HA call returns 401 — while homeassistant_api: true makes permissions look granted.
• A wrong entity id is not an error anywhere in HA. It just never produces a value, and the automation's own state still reads on.
• HA composes entity ids from the device area and device name. The same firmware yields sensor.goodwe_master_… at one site and sensor.cellar_goodwe_master_… at another.
• input_datetime states parse timezone-naive; subtracting now() raises and kills the whole automation before it records itself as triggered. Use the timestamp attribute.
• Alpine ships paho-mqtt 1.x, which has no CallbackAPIVersion, and musl has no aiohttp wheel — install from apk, not pip.
• The inverter holds its last command forever. It has no meter-timeout. Every failsafe here exists because of that one fact, and anything in doubt commands 0 W rather than holding.