glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5
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Four follow-ups on the reviewed and approved TEL-05 work. Additive; no shipped behaviour changes except the two failure paths below. 1. unchanged_s had no operator surface. DOCS.md told a reader "the transport tracks it as unchanged_s" and there was nowhere to look: main.py built the transport, scheduled run(), and never read the object again. The status page now shows it on the healthy P1 line. Still NOT thresholded and NOT folded into the age - that refusal was reviewed and upheld, because at the converged -10 W this controller aims for a 1 Wh register needs ~6 minutes to move, so any limit false-trips at the target operating point. The whole argument for leaving it to a human requires the human being able to see it. 2. The "equivalent mutant" note on the content_type guard was wrong, and the comment is downgraded to say so. web.Response(text=...) defaults to text/plain, so the fake meter CAN serve valid JSON under the wrong mimetype. Test added; shipped behaviour was already correct. 3. A timed-out poll logged an empty reason: str(asyncio.TimeoutError()) is "", so the status page read "last error:" and then nothing, on a hung meter, at the moment the battery had just gone to 0 W. Falls back to the class name. Note str(err), not `err or ...` - an exception object is always truthy. 4. submit() sat outside the try in poll_once() and run() had no except, so a raise would kill the poll task permanently and SILENTLY - safe (the age climbs, the controller commands 0 W) but indistinguishable from a dead meter. Both wrapped; poll_s is already the retry cadence, so no backoff. Also a comment at the parse_homewizard range(phases) slice: a 3-phase meter configured as 1-phase understates the capacity-tariff figure. Filed separately, not fixed here. 242 checks in test_p1.py (236 before, 6 new). test_control 55, test_arbiter 18, test_maintenance 21, all untouched and green. Each new check proved non-vacuous: six mutations, six named reds, no suite aborts, sources restored byte-identical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Du77usMj8XNKNFZGmUiWDa
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
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. 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.