/tags/sunpower/ Recent content in Sunpower on Stuff I Learned Today Hugo en borgman.jeremy@pm.me (Jeremy Borgman) borgman.jeremy@pm.me (Jeremy Borgman) 2022 Jeremy Borgman All rights reserved Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /solar_homeassistant/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000borgman.jeremy@pm.me (Jeremy Borgman) /solar_homeassistant/ <p>This post is still a draft and needs review.</p> <h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1> <p>Someone recently asked me how to set up monitoring for sunpower solar panels in home assistant with the legacy PVS6 monitor. Thankfully when SunStrong acquired Sunpower they created an offical API to support something like this: <a href="https://github.com/SunStrong-Management/pvs-hass">https://github.com/SunStrong-Management/pvs-hass</a>.</p> <p>However if you are new to home assistant this can still be a daunting task. The steps below comprehensively document step by step how to go from a clean HA install to having the monitoring up and running.</p>