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The clamp already existed; the alarm did not, and specs 10.3 records a silently clipped integrator that reached 14,768 W while every dashboard read a legal 5000 W. OUTPUT_CLAMP now alarms on every engagement, with its own reason code, notification_id, status row and counter, distinct from ordinary saturation. Clamp lives in write_setpoint(), the one path every write takes; the alarm runs after it, out of the write path. Not a trip: the clamped value is written and the loop keeps running. Reviewed over two rounds. Round one held the PR on three findings: clamp_to_rating() returned early from the max_w stage so the device bound was never applied when the first stage engaged (the bigger the overshoot, the less the guard did), and two checks that could not fail - range(CLEAR_CYCLES - 1) issued zero clean cycles at CLEAR_CYCLES=1, and REASSERT_S + 9 passed for any value including an hour of silence. All three fixed in4e66583and verified independently: both clamp stages now run on symmetric, asymmetric and wider-device ratings with no escapes; the 492-point sweep was shown to bite where the witness values cannot (a positive-side-only device bound gives 181 escapes with both witnesses passing, and a single-grid-point hole gives 1); and the rewritten checks pin the requirement rather than the constant - CLEAR_CYCLES red at 1 and at 51, REASSERT_S red at <=5 and at >=300. Author's six mutations all reproduced red, including the cross-suite one where removing the event-log coalescing turns test_freeze red - this guard's log had been evicting SAFETY-18's METER FROZEN? row. Headline claim reproduced: keying the alarm on Decision.reason instead of the i_clamped/clamped booleans takes the 10.3 replay from 2 engagements to 0. AC2 verified with an independent saturation-without-clamping scenario: sat_count 10 at 21.6% of the rating, zero clamp engagements. Two reviewer mutations survive, both recorded and neither blocking: describe() dropping the bound name (the bound field itself is pinned), and abs() on limit_w (unreachable under the int(100,5000) schema). First merge in this repository to pass through CI-01's gate rather than around it:46383c5merged release/1.0 in so the required context could run at all, and checks / unit (pull_request) reports success in 2m32s. Note for TEST-06 (#14), which rebases behind this: it conflicts in BOTH app/main.py and test_freeze.py, and its 8 red assertions are its own service-keyed notification counting - keying those four call sites on notification_id turns the whole suite green against this app/ with no change here.
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.