Modbus Plugin for Kostal Smart Energy Meter

Version 1.6.3

This plugin connects your Kostal Smart Energy Meter (https://www.kostal-solar-electric.com/) via ModBus with SmarthomeNG.

  • read out all Smart Meter data

Change history

  • support for pymodbus 2 dropped

Requirements needed software

  • Python >= 3.8

  • pip install pymodbus

  • SmarthomeNG >= 1.8.0

Configuration

1) /smarthome/etc/plugin.yaml

Enable the plugin in plugin.yaml, type in the Smart Meters IP address and configure the ModBus Port and update cycle(seconds).

Ksemmodbus:
    plugin_name: ksemmodbus
    ksem_ip: 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX'
    modbus_port: '502'
    update_cycle: '20'

2) /smarthome/items/kostal.yaml

Create an item based on the template files/kostal_item_template.yaml

Examples

Thats it! Now you can start using the plugin within SmartVisu. For example:

Get data from Energy Meter:

<p>Active Power - : {{basic.value('KSEM_Beszug','Kostal.ksem.ksem_0','W')}} </p>
<p>Active Power + : {{basic.value('KSEM_Einspeisen','Kostal.ksem.ksem_2','W')}} </p>

The following data are stored in the respective items:

Addr (dec)

Description

Format

Unit

ksem_0

Active power+

U32

W

ksem_2

Active power-

U32

W

ksem_4

Reactive power+

U32

var

ksem_6

Reactive power-

U32

var

ksem_16

Apparent power+

U32

VA

ksem_18

Apparent power-

U32

VA

ksem_24

Power factor

Float

-

ksem_512

Active energy+

U64

Wh

ksem_516

Active energy-

U64

Wh

ksem_520

Reactive energy+

U64

varh

ksem_524

Reactive energy-

U64

varh

ksem_544

Apparent energy+

U64

VAh

ksem_548

Apparent energy-

U64

VAh