I can’t wait that long lol!! I gotta know. Any ETA on the annoucement?
What's on Your SOLIX Wish List?
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Nope … we’ll announce on Jan. 9!
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I choose not to like your post lol
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It’s not smart enough. There’s no communication between energy generating and energy consumption.
Time of use is “dumb” in that it is only local rather than regional.
Two example scenarios:
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you’re in UK southern England it’s 6pm. The UK Met Office predicts that it’s about to get windy on Scotland at night in a few hours peaking 2am. So a forecast excess of renewables. Your Anker Solix is told at 7pm to stop drawing from the grid and then at 2am begins recharging.
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you’re in USA California. A weather front is entering northern California, the temperature is about to dip. It’s still sunny in SoCal, so your Anker Solix is told by the grid to begin fuel heating the house.
The point is the grid and the Solix and the home communicate.
I renovated our thermal solar system (Hot water) this year
After 25 years of usage a hairline showed up in the inner!!! kettle of the boiler.
No chance to repair.
It was a all in one system.
Was innovative in those times.
But now its not.
I have a separate kettle and a control system incl. the pump.
More simple, but works fine.
I could use the 25 years old panels on the roof, so it was quite easy to swap
I could install solar panels etc.
But there are no more subsidies from the government here .
(Germany got absolutely bankrupt due government “skills”)
I will not do.
In the winter there is no input from those panels and the price guaranteed for the supply in the
public net can be altered easily.
And I can not use such “green modern heat pumps”
(no floor heating)
I am old and the house is old.
So any investment doesn’t make sense.
NO MORE CHANGES.
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That’s interesting. I thought of it this way: My utility company, Xcel, increases charges more per kWh from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. every day except weekends. I’ll pay more for the power use during those hours.
If I set up my SOLIX F3800 to charge during the overnight hours when rates are less, I can use the stored electricity from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and pay less overall.
I think we’re talking about two different definitions of TOU, so I wonder if any organization has come up with “smart TOU.” That’s truly needed in many parts of the world.
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Would love to see max & min charge settings as per Ecoflow & Bluetti devices, ie charge from 20% and shut off charging at 80%
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Agreed! This would be great for using the UPS function, where the unit is plugged into AC power continuously.
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I almost went with EcoFlow because they have the min/max charge setting when unit is plugged into AC power continuously, or at least most of the time. But Anker is just better, and has faster switching time. My main use for my Anker power station will be to protect some expensive sensitive network and security gear with PoE all over the place. So it will be in UPS mode most of the time.
I hope Anker adds the “battery protection” feature - maybe with a firmware update - so that max charge can be set to 80% to protect the batteries from being at 100% charge continuously.
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I’d also like to see some statistics of power usage by each port. Clicking on the port in the app revealing a graph of energy consumption over time would be great. Would certainly help manage which devices you plug in and help plan your device usage when camping off grid. I work in the IoT space with remote monitoring of assets and their controllers and channels, assets such as refrigeration systems, HVAC, Lighting etc and understand how big data and telemetry is invaluable in driving decisions on energy management. I just feel a little underwhelmed by the historic data available in the Anker app.
Just bought an F2600. I perhaps naively assumed that there would be a Home Assistant integration for it, especially since it has wifi, but it turns out there is not (only for the European Solix E1600 unit). So, my wish list is for some sort of interface through which we can retrieve data about our Solix units. Anker doesn’t need to write the Home Assistant integration, just provide some minimum documentation on accessing the data via our Anker account, like the Anker app does. The Home Assistant community will do the rest.
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Setup here: solarbank 2 pro, anker smart meter, solar panels
features:
- how about an api to ready only query the devices, I’d like to incorporate it in my domotica
- integration with shelly em3 pro (that can be queried and incorporated)
- a 3 phase design like the solarbank 2 pro, 16/25A 3 phase/380v limited instead of ~3.5 A @ 230v
- a scale design: how to start with A, extend to, increase to… etc. It looks like stuff can be integrated, but how ?
- a localized functionality, not somewhere in the cloud, how about a docker image to run one’s ecosystem ?
- solid state batteries !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZRPItAsfA
All I want for Christmas is a new Anker App for my F2000 / everfrost.
Yes! Sell me a solix coordinator/bridge - anything! To get the 767/F2000 online. The software side is just brutal right now when compared to other solar stations.
Most certainly the long awaited for Solix powerbank2 upgrade from 800 to 1000W main output for users living in France. Every Youtuber in the country confirmed that Anker acknowleged this uprgrade would happen. Athough I now own an Anker Solix2 system because it was in stock and quickly available, I rather chose to advise friends to order a Zendure2000 system mainly for its ablilty to output 1200W
just got a c1000.
I would like to see
- The app for controlling it available on wi-fi (not bluetooth).
reason: there are people who dont or try not to use mobile phones (for reasons of security/privacy). - If you have to use a mobile/bluetooth: there should be a link on the anker website for the app, you should not HAVE TO use google play store. (once again for privacy/security reasons).
Time of use charging for the standalone F3800 and availability of the Smart Home Panel for Canadian customers!
It would really help selling any kind of Anker Solix products if they would provide an official Api for seamless integration into smart home power automation.
Many users have different products already and they need to interact in some customizable way to cover various use cases any user may have. There are various smart home platforms that can do the orchestration and automation as long as they get an interface to monitor and control the power devices.
For me this capability is a buying decision factor.
On my wish list: a firmware configuration option, configurable from the app over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, stored in the device’s EEPROM/flash memory, which is basically a checkbox: “AC outputs always on (when available)”.
This feature could be off by default. But when turned on, the AC outputs would be on whenever there is sufficient charge to do so. Without requiring a physical button press!
This would make it so that the devices would be truly useful as an unattended UPS battery backup. For example, I’d like to use a C1000 in my basement as a battery backup for my sump pump. Right now I can’t because if I go away for a week, if there’s a power outage and the battery depletes, it won’t turn the AC outputs back on when power returns. But with my proposed feature enabled, it’d be perfect!
Thanks so much! 
Support to read / control with home assistant.
The idea is to charge it when sun shines, so own energy will be used.
Whats needed:
Control charge without interrupt power (use it as ups / accu power)
When battery is back to 20 % switch power as passtrue, wait charging till there is enough sun from solarpanels on the roof. (Not the small portable ik one)
Example: The idea here is to run the nas system and camera recording as much as possible independent from the grit.
I am sure there many other possibilities to make more advantage of the anker c1000 other then only backup or emergency power.
Yes I am aware thats this is not a powergrid converter, the output is not connect to the grid. Just a few devices run direct connected to the box.
Just some idea.
Ty.