Equipment Editor

Title

Name of the equipment:
E.g., My boiler.

Equipment type

Type of the device:
Grid, solar panel, battery, or an electrical appliance.

Self-consumption

If solar panels or batteries are installed in the house, you must set this parameter if the equipment is a battery or grid.

Reverse direction

The parameter reverses the power flow for a battery or the grid.

• If the battery indicates charging and, in fact, it is discharging (or vice versa), you have to swap this attribute.

• If the grid indicates power being delivered from the house to the grid, but, in fact, the power is delivered from the grid to the house (or vice versa), you have to swap this attribute.

Power limit

Alarm threshold for Active power

Unit = W (Watt)

Active power

The actual consumed or delivered power.

It has to be assigned for all equipment types:
The grid, solar panels, a battery, and electrical appliances.

Unit = W (Watt) or kW

Energy taken

The total cumulative active energy consumed by equipment.

It has to be assigned to all types of energy-consuming equipment: The grid, batteries, and electrical appliances.

Energy produced

The total cumulative active energy delivered by equipment.

It has to be assigned for all equipment types that can deliver energy:
The grid, solar panels, and a battery.

Device status

Optional.

It maps the KNX object status register of the equipment.
The status is displayed in the plugin:
1 = ok / 0 = failure.