• OpenDTU-OnBattery
  • Important Differences
  • Documentation
  • Project State
  • Project History
  • Acknowledgments

OpenDTU-OnBattery

OpenDTU-OnBattery is a fork of OpenDTU, which adds support for battery chargers, battery management systems (BMS), and power meters on a single ESP32. Its Dynamic Power Limiter can adjust the inverter's power production to the actual houshold consumption. In this way, it is possible to implement a zero export policy.

Important Differences

Generally speaking, OpenDTU-OnBattery and the upstream project are compatible with each other, because OpenDTU-OnBattery mostly only extends the upstream project. However, there are a few notable differences aside from the added functionality:

• OpenDTU-OnBattery, due to its code footprint, cannot offer support for over-the-air (OTA) updates on ESP32 with only 4MB of flash memory. Consult the documentation to learn more.
• Unlike in the upstream project, you must compile the web application yourself when attempting to build your own firmware blob. See the documentation for details.

Documentation

The canonical documentation of OpenDTU-OnBattery is hosted at https://opendtu-onbattery.net.

You may find additional helpful information in the project's community-maintained Github Wiki.

To find out what's new or improved have a look at the releases.

Project State

OpenDTU-OnBattery is actively maintained. Please note that OpenDTU-OnBattery may change significantly during its development. Bug reports, comments, feature requests and pull requests are welcome!

Project History

The original OpenDTU project was started from a discussion on Mikrocontroller.net. The original ambition was to replace the original Hoymiles DTU (Telemetry Gateway) to avoid using Hoymile's cloud. With a lot of reverse engineering, the Hoymiles protocol was decrypted and analyzed.

In the summer of 2022 @helgeerbe bought a Victron MPPT charge controller, and didn't like the idea to set up a separate ESP32 to receive the charger's data. He decided to fork OpenDTU and extend it with battery charger support and a Dynamic Power Limiter.

In early October 2024, the project moved to the newly founded GitHub organisation hoylabs and is since maintained by multiple community members.

Acknowledgments

• Special thanks to Thomas Basler (@tbnobody), the author of the upstream project, for his continued effort!
• Thanks to @helgeerbe for starting OpenDTU-OnBattery, for his dedication to the project, as well as for his trust in the current maintainers of the project, which act as part of the hoylabs GitHub organisation.
• We like to thank all contributors. With your ideas and enhancements, you have made OpenDTU-OnBattery much more than @helgeerbe originally had in mind.