Solar Assistant MQTT - How to use it with Node Red?

[wattmatters]

@craigcurtin

OK but you would know its IP address as you set it up when you setup the MQTT broker - so use the IP address in the command

ssh pi@IP Address of SA

I know the local IP address, I now have this:

@craigcurtin

As to why the settings are not sticking i am guess that your automations in HA are over riding them

Nah, there is no HA automation which would over ride it instantly.

@craigcurtin

Are you sure you do not have some timed profile or some such set in Solar Assistant that is automatically setting the system back after you make a change ?

There is no such user setting in SA. It was one thought I had, some kind of default maximum number of changes within a certain time limit, but I tried waiting for a while. Sometimes after a wait it worked, sometimes it didn't.

@craigcurtin

As i said before i would monitor all the messages to and from SA and then make the change from HA and see what it is sending and receiving in MQTT so get an idea of what is going on.

I'll try. But if I take the computer's focus away from the NR screen, when I return it restarts NR and wipes anything which was appearing in the debug pane.