good afternoon youtube checking out the diversion load today we've got about 425 watts or so
on line one and you can see here we're pumping roughly that same amount of power in on line
two pulling it out on line one giving a net power to the whole house of about 10 watts
and we're burning up about 140 right now so with this system every 15 seconds the power changes the
computations run the diversion load changes and it's really hard to keep track of what's going on
and see what the thing actually looks like running yeah so this this is my synology nas so i've tried
a couple of things one is i tried loading up home assistant and then the influx db and grafana
graphing packages by a docker and i could get home assistant to run but i guess one of the issues on
the docker version of home assistant is that what's called the supervisor is not installed
which means you have to go and manually install these other packages that you want to add or i
guess they call them integrations that makes it a little bit tricky because you have to set
everything up manually you pick your package there and then you go in and you edit settings change
things around there and then start the docker container running and then you try and see if home
assistant can talk to influx and i was getting all sorts of problems there it was kind of a really
steep learning curve so the other thing i try is i think they call it the home assistant core
but that basically gives you the same functionality as the docker version it's a little
bit different but it's missing this supervisor package again all the integrations have to be
added manually so i was just having trouble with that several years ago when i picked up this new
synology nas one of the things i wanted to be able to do with it was run this virtual machine manager
because my old ds-1513 plus had just a two core processor and four gigs of memory max synology
didn't enable the virtual machine manager on that particular box and you really probably wouldn't
want to run it anyway because you have to dedicate at least one cpu core to that virtual machines and
then you really want to give it two gigs minimum of memory so you would take your four gigabytes
of system memory and you'd also cut that in half one of the things when i selected this 1618 plus
model it's got four cores and i loaded it up with 32 gigs of memory so that i could have a virtual
machine running or maybe even two and so this virtual machine is really neat i set it up for
home assistant to run natively i gave it a 32 gig disk and then it's got a network it's basically
a processor running and then you load the home assistant virtual machine image and you've got
then the full home assistant plus the supervisor package and so that's up here so here i've got
home assistant running got the supervisor down here if you run the docker or the native synology
version you don't get this here and this makes it really easy to add packages you just go to
the store click on influx which is the database package and then grafana which is the graphics
package you click on them install them and then you just have to do a little bit of configuration
and get them up and running so that was really easy and then here's the influx database
so what i can do is i can come in here to my home assistant database and i can go down to the watts
measurement here's my home energy monitor from my vera controller
and then i can click on the current power at or the value there but anyway that is
influx and what it does is it basically grabs all the data off of the vera so every time
anything changes you can see here at 12 14 and 30 seconds there was a reading and then at 12
14 and 50 seconds there was a reading and 12 15 and zero seconds there was a reading
so it's just capturing all of these changes in anything that's going on on the vera controller
get pulled into this home assistant database and then i can come over here to grafana and
here's my home power so what i have here is this is my home power and this is just monitoring that
home energy monitor that i have set up so it's got total power in green so that's the green line here
line one is the yellow line and then line two power so that's corresponding to clamp one and
clamp two on the home energy monitor and you can see here this is the last six hours so starting
out this morning what do we have here 300 watts of power and then the little blips here are the
refrigerator kicking on yeah i think here i was running the stove so the stove element was cycling
on and off there here's my grid tie power it's a little bit off the screen but it's coming up here
peaks a little over 300 watts and so over the period of time here here the power is 130 down to
looks like about 80 watts there's maybe 70 pretty soon here about 11 o'clock in the morning
there there was enough power between the grid tie and then the hybrid inverter that it kicked
on here and you can see the sharing logic here yeah so the line one power up here was up here
about 120 watts and then down here the line two power was essentially the negative of that
minus 120 watts and then i just for testing here i turned on some more things i think this was my
microwave here and then this was my coffee machine running here and you can see i've turned on a
couple of things just to get the load up here so we could see it but you can see how the blue which
is the negative power is pretty much mirroring the yellow which is the the actual load in the house
and then here's the diversion load watts it clicked on just a little bit right there a little
bit right there it came up here and then that's when i turned on some other things i turned on
a couple of pcs just for some extra load here but you can see how that's working and we're
we're still burning up a little bit there's a little bit right there a little bit right there
it's usually when things change so here's when the refrigerator was running and then it turned off
and then the diversion load turned on the blue is essentially the diversion load
code but this power here is not being used up by the diversion load it's being used up by
loads in the house i have to come in and shave off little peaks of power
yeah so it's about 6 p.m that's about the end of the solar power coming in right around 5 30
when we last had zero power and then the green line here went up now it's pretty much
climbing we're still getting a little bit of grid tie power coming in about a hundred watts
so this grid tie actually has two solar panels there's one solar panel that faces south east and
then there's another one that faces southwest and they're both 270 watt panels in parallel
so i actually get quite a broad power band off of those all the way from about 6 30 in the morning
till about 7 30 at night although i only get peak of 325 watts i never get 540 watts combined but i
get that power spread out quite a bit during the day so hopefully this graffana panel or chart
helped visualize what this system is doing the blue is all power that i was basically recycling
so to speak and then the green down here this was the power i was dissipating and i think i recycled
a lot more power here than i dissipated this big chunks of this here i was not dissipating any
power i was using it all so yeah if you have any questions about that if you need any details on
any of these things post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching you