Fix service crash

What's Changed

Bug fixes

• Extra debug on service call failure by @springfall2008 in #1792
• Fix service crash by @springfall2008 in #1795
• Bump version to .16 by @springfall2008 in #1797

Unit levels tests

• Car charging smart unit tests by @springfall2008 in #1791

Full Changelog: v8.8.15...v8.8.16

Further tweaks to SOC Keep handling & export control

What's Changed

Changes

Changed the way best_soc_keep works to gradually fade in the keep metric over a 4 hour period rather than ignore the keep for 4 hours and then fade in over 2 hours.

Changed the export logic to only stop when the SOC is at or below the target rather than based on going below the target.

• Try to export everything left if allowed by @springfall2008 in #1790

### Bug fixes

• Fix issue with battery_scaling and soc_percent by @springfall2008 in #1789

Full Changelog: v8.8.14...v8.8.15

Change to best_soc_keep handling

What's Changed

Features

• New control input_number.predbat_best_soc_keep_weight in expert mode allows you to control how strongly best_soc_keep should be kept to
• Metric keep is not based on the load but on time and amount below the keep threshold.

• Change method of metric keep by @springfall2008 in #1786

Bug fixes

• Bug related to freeze only mode calcs by @springfall2008 in #1785
• Fixed issue where service API calls were not repeated when the charge start/end times change

Testing and tidy up

• Unit testing of inverter started by @springfall2008 in #1782
• Keep step data for debug by @springfall2008 in #1784
• Tidy up some code, debug improvements by @springfall2008 in #1788

Full Changelog: v8.8.13...v8.8.14

Fix crash with Solis button push

What's Changed

• fix button push crash by @springfall2008 in #1780

Full Changelog: v8.8.12...v8.8.13

Web improvements - ability to download debug info from Web UI

What's Changed

Features

• Web download debug feature by @springfall2008 in #1777

Debug data can now be downloaded from Dashboard tab in Web UI:

Fixes

• Update customisation.md by @springfall2008 in #1774
• Catch some extra error conditions by @springfall2008 in #1776

Full Changelog: v8.8.11...v8.8.12

Minor renames, renamed a control, iboost minimum time

What's Changed

Features

• Change name of switch.predbat_calculate_export_on_low_import to switch.predbat_calculate_export_on_high_import by @springfall2008 in #1767

Switch name has changed, and the default is now True (not False) - the functionality is untouched as it was previously named wrongly.

• iBoost smart min length feature by @springfall2008 in #1771

You can now change input_number.predbat_iboost_smart_min_length to configure the minimum length of a Smart iBoost slot. This will have no impact on Solar/Battery Charging iBoost and only impacts energy rate based iBoost.

Bug fixes

• Ignore planned IO slots when car is unplugged and option is set by @springfall2008 in #1768

If switch.predbat_octopus_intelligent_ignore_unplugged is turned on then all future additional Octopus Intelligent slots will be ignored if car 0 is not plugged in. This means only the low overnight rate will be recognised and not any charging slots reported.

• Fix for issues with charge freeze disabled by @springfall2008 in #1765

If switch.predbat_set_charge_freeze was turned off (or forced off as your inverter doesn't support it) Predbat still made some freeze charge calculations, this has been fixed.

• Catch crash with no button setting and press_and_poll_button on by @springfall2008 in #1769

If the inverter had button push enabled but the button was not defined Predbat would previous crash, now this is just ignored.

• Fix device class for generated entities by @springfall2008 in #1773

Unit testing

• Tidy up run_single_debug by @springfall2008 in #177

Improved reproduction of user plans from YAML
Added an iBoost Smart unit test

Full Changelog: v8.8.10...v8.8.11

Predheat improvements, Predbat minor improvements

What's Changed

Predbat improvements

• HTML plan improvements by @springfall2008 in #1740

In plan_debug mode the XLoad column shows data being imported from outside Predbat (e.g. Predheat/PredAI).

• Rename secondary order slots and split by import/export @springfall2008 in #1757

switch.predbat_calculate_secondary_order_slots is replaced by two new options:

switch.calculate_import_low_export

Defaults to Enabled, for multiple same priced import slots then export rate will be taken into acount

calculate_export_low_import

Defaults to Disabled, for multiple same priced export slots then then they will be sorted only by time (latest possible export).

Predheat improvements

• Predheat weather comp by @Meatballs1 in #1752

Predheat now can take a weather compensation table to adjust flow temperature predictions.

• Fix heat energy to be energy in not out by @springfall2008 in #1751

The maximum and minimum heat energy was based on input energy, this has been changed to be maximum output energy. E.g. a 7kw max will mean the heating can produce up to 7kw of heat.

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with manual api load_scaling crash by @springfall2008 in #1741
• Weather comp fixes by @springfall2008 in #1754
• Update customisation.md by @springfall2008 in #1755
• Fix predheat crash by @springfall2008 in #1758
• Update FUNDING.yml by @springfall2008 in #1759
• Update docs to reflect binary_sensor batpred_discharging renamed to batpred_exporting by @raldred in #1756

Full Changelog: v8.8.9...v8.8.10

Improvements to Predheat

What's Changed

Predheat now considers the min and max power values as the output power of your system and not the input power as previously. This means a 7kw heat pump should have a max power of 7000.

Predheat now accepts delta_correction, gas_efficiency and heat_pump_efficiency values in multiples of 1 degree. If there are gaps e.g. data in multiples of 5 then they will be interpolated.

• Fixes for Predheat, max power is now output power not input, interpolate tables by @springfall2008 in #1737
• Predheat typo for gas mode by @springfall2008 in #1738

Full Changelog: v8.8.8...v8.8.9

Put back old metric_keep method due to issue

What's Changed

Some users had a totally flat battery due to the change in metric keep method, putting it back for now

• Restore old metric keep method by @springfall2008 in #1736
  #1728

Full Changelog: v8.8.7...v8.8.8

Fix bug with metric_min_improvement_discharge

What's Changed

Bugs

Min improvement discharge was being rounded to an integer, this caused a value of 0.1 to be read as 0 and hence lots of silly exports.

• Bug with metric_min_improvement_discharge being changed to integer by @springfall2008 in #1733

Documentation

• Rename solar_assistant.yaml to solar_assistant_growatt.yaml by @springfall2008 in #1735
• Update bug_report.md by @springfall2008 in #1734

Full Changelog: v8.8.6...v8.8.7