Questions about Solar Manager Manager Flux SM-1118-01

The main function of the part is the ("intelligent") optimisation of your consumption: the SolarManager can control a considerable number of devices with their own API's (PV systems, PV batteries, electricity meters, heat pumps, boiler heating units, a few large electrical appliances), "smart switches" like those of Shelly or MyStrom plus charging stations for electric cars.Smart switches" such as those from Shelly or MyStrom plus charging stations for electric cars can be switched on/off depending on the following parameters and thus optimise your own consumption (list of supported devices can be found at solarmanager.ch): - Current generation, - minimum available electrical power for the device to be switched on, - Minimum switch-on time per unit, - Switch-on delay per unit, - priority list of controlled units, - plus other factors, and - Forecast function for the power of the system, e.g. with regard to consumers such as an electric car, to be able to estimate when it should be charged again. The more controllable consumers are connected, the better the optimisation (e.g. if there is little available electricity, a small consumer before a larger one, despite lower priority). Is that worth the 700 CHF? Other conceivable solutions require a lot of personal effort (configuration, programming or configuring logic) and a potentially lower GFAF/WAF (as it is so "nicely" called, one should probably just call it PAF) for operation or use. Personally, I would really like to see a bit more "intelligence", especially with regard to the forecast for the day and the smart control. However, I did not find anything equivalent in my research, the extensive compatibility is quite impressive. The best way to build a SolarManager is with openHAB. But with considerable effort. I briefly played through this variant, but then decided in favour of SolarManager (see above). To be fair, it has to be said that the SolarManager is also aimed at PV specialist companies that sell it to their customers, set it up for their customers and, depending on the case, also maintain several systems. HTH.

I simply integrated the Solarmanager into the home network and then I was able to integrate all the devices via the network. Solarmanager provided a short description for all devices. After contacting support, I also found a description for the integration

In answer to my own question, there is a new product available from Shelly that fulfils this mission: Shelly Pro 3EM