Automatic Battery Charging with Solcast Solar Forecast and Home Assistant - Part 1

Part 1 of a video guide series on how to set up your Solar PV with Battery Storage System to automatically charge from the grid overnight using Solcast Solar Forecasting. This video focuses on the reasons, tariffs and theory behind automatic charging and gives an introduction to Solcast and a functioning Home Assistant dashboard. Links described in the video are here: £50 incentive to sign up to Octopus Energy: https://share.octopus.energy/stone-ly... Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/ Solcast Solar Forecasting Toolkit: https://toolkit.solcast.com.au/ MODBUS Interface Build Instructions: https://github.com/Jumpy07/Solis---So... 12v 1A Power Supply: https://amzn.to/3nLUjLa Project Box/Junction Box (110x180x100 minimum): https://amzn.to/41dtWeE Cable Glands: https://amzn.to/3B5Ptv8 Soldering Kit - Iron, Solder, Multimeter etc: https://amzn.to/3VNvrPF Exceedconn EC04681-2023-BF for Solis/Ginlong Inverter RS-485 port: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1956689899... Isolated RS-485 Hub (Must be the two masters one slave version): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10050... Elfin-EW11 Whole Kit or 4-pin input version: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32916... Odroid XU4Q: https://www.odroid.co.uk/index.php?ro... Odroid N2+ 4GB: https://www.odroid.co.uk/index.php?ro... Case for Odroid N2+ (KKSB cases are the best) https://amzn.to/3pqBVYs Raspberry Pi4 Model B: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/... Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:11 - Our System 09:22 - Shading 11:51 - Octopus Tariffs 17:42 - Old Charge Procedure - Manual & App 20:19 - Solcast 22:55 - Home Assistant 24:44 - Decision Logic 27:52 - Calculation Timeline 36:45 - Configuration & Devices 42:22 - Outro