continual_publish service

.gitignore

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ secrets_emhass.yaml
 .vscode/tasks.json
 *.html
 *.pkl
-data/actionLogs.txt
 **/app
 
 
@@ -41,6 +40,10 @@ share/python-wheels/
 *.egg
 MANIFEST
 
+# Local session data 
+data/actionLogs.txt
+data/entities/*.json
+
 # PyInstaller
 #  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
 #  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
         "OPTIONS_PATH": "/workspaces/emhass/options.json",
         "SECRETS_PATH": "/workspaces/emhass/secrets_emhass.yaml",
         "DATA_PATH": "/workspaces/emhass/data/",
+        "LOGGING_LEVEL": "DEBUG"
       }
     },
     {
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
         "LAT": "45.83", //optional change
         "LON": "6.86", //optional change
         "ALT": "4807.8", //optional change
+        "LOGGING_LEVEL": "DEBUG" //optional change
       },
     }
   ]

config_emhass.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ retrieve_hass_conf:
   - 'sensor.power_photovoltaics'
   - 'sensor.power_load_no_var_loads'
   method_ts_round: 'nearest' # Set the method for timestamp rounding, options are: first, last and nearest
+  continual_publish: False # Save published sensor data and check for state change every freq minutes
 
 optim_conf:
   set_use_battery: False # consider a battery storage

docs/config.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ These are the parameters that we will need to define to retrieve data from Home
 	- 'sensor.power_photovoltaics'
 	- 'sensor.power_load_no_var_loads'
 - `method_ts_round`: Set the method for timestamp rounding, options are: first, last and nearest.
+- `continual_publish`: set to True to save entities to .json after optimization run. Then automatically republish the saved entities *(with updated current state value)* every freq minutes. *entity data saved to data_path/entities.*
 
 A second part of this section is given by some privacy-sensitive parameters that should be included in a `secrets_emhass.yaml` file alongside the `config_emhass.yaml` file.
 

docs/differences.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ See bellow for a list of associations between the parameters from `config_emhass
 | retrieve_hass_conf |  load_negative |  load_negative | |
 | retrieve_hass_conf |  set_zero_min |  set_zero_min | |
 | retrieve_hass_conf |  method_ts_round |  method_ts_round | |
+| retrieve_hass_conf |  continual_publish |  continual_publish | |
 | params_secrets |  solcast_api_key |  optional_solcast_api_key | |
 | params_secrets |  solcast_rooftop_id |  optional_solcast_rooftop_id | |
 | params_secrets |  solar_forecast_kwp |  optional_solar_forecast_kwp | |

options.json

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   "optimization_time_step": 30,
   "historic_days_to_retrieve": 2,
   "method_ts_round": "nearest",
+  "continual_publish": false,
   "optional_solcast_api_key": "empty",
   "optional_solcast_rooftop_id": "empty",
   "optional_solar_forecast_kwp": 5,