TWO Critical Alarms Every Off-Grid Solar System Needs | Home Assistant

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Protect your off-grid solar battery bank from unexpected drainage!

In this episode of our Smart Off-Grid Home series, we show you how to set up two critical alarms in Home Assistant using Solar Assistant data. These automated alerts are designed to pierce through your phone's silent mode to wake you up in the middle of the night if something goes desperately wrong.

What you’ll learn in this video:

How to import and use our critical phone alarm blueprint script in Home Assistant via YAML.

Setting up a Battery State of Charge (SoC) threshold alarm to trigger when your battery drops below 25%.

Preventing "artificial" drops caused by heavy appliance inrush loads using automated delays.

Creating an overnight excessive power drain alert to catch hidden leaks (like a faulty water pump or plumbing issue running continuously between 11 PM and 6 AM).

How to test your scripts locally without relying on external cloud networks.

This is part of our ongoing Smart Off-Grid Home series, where we're using Home Assistant and Solar Assistant to automate and manage our off-grid solar system.

COMING UP:

We'll be looking at generator automation, including automatic generator start and stop, generator alarms and what happens if the generator runs out of fuel.

Further episodes will cover power dumping, load shedding and automatically using surplus solar energy for things such as hot water, heating and air conditioning.

If you're running an off-grid solar system, building a solar battery backup system, or interested in Home Assistant automation for off-grid living, subscribe and follow along with the series.

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