Solcast Solar

Home Assistant(https://www.home-assistant.io/) Component

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This custom component integrates the Solcast API into Home Assistant.

Modified from the great works of

  • dannerph/homeassistant-solcast
  • cjtapper/solcast-py
  • home-assistant-libs/forecast_solar

Basic Installation/Configuration Instructions:

Add a new HA Integration selecting ‘Solcast PV Solar’

Setup the Recorder to record data.. something like

recorder:
  purge_keep_days: 31
  include:
    entity_globs:
      - sensor.solcast*

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Getting a Solcast API Key:

Sign up for an API key (https://solcast.com/)

Create a Rooftop entity on the Solcast website. This will generate a rooftop_id (resource id) Copy the id and api for this integration to work.

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