Transform Your Solar Investment With Automated Energy Management

Energy Manager currently supports Sungrow, Sigenergy, AlphaESS, GoodWe (EH/ET), Fronius or SolarEdge solar inverter and battery systems.

A dedicated Home Assistant OS installation is required, running on supported hardware such as Home Assistant Green, Yellow, Raspberry Pi, or an equivalent system.

It is crucial that your inverter model is supported by Energy Manager and that it includes a Smart Meter for accurate power monitoring and reporting, if not built into the inverter already. For example, Sungrow inverters require the DTSU666, or similar Smart Meter, or else accurate energy readings are not possible.

If your hardware is not listed above, Energy Manager is not compatible.

Home Assistant is a widely used, open-source home automation platform that runs on Linux-based systems such as Home Assistant Green, Yellow, Raspberry Pi, or a dedicated PC.

Energy Manager is designed to run on a dedicated Home Assistant OS installation that operates continuously and is accessed via a web interface.

Energy Manager is designed for users who are already comfortable installing and operating Home Assistant.

A pre-configured Home Assistant backup is provided, which you restore onto a clean, dedicated Home Assistant OS installation. Restoring this backup will overwrite any existing data on that device.

Not necessarily. Energy Manager directly supports specific providers and also lets Premium users create a DIY electricity plan for most other retailers:

• Amber Electric / LocalVolts: wholesale-exposed dynamic pricing (supports free tier monitoring + curtailing, with Premium unlocking automation and optimisation).
• Flow Power & Globird: retail-optimised bill reduction using AEMO wholesale pricing on Energy Manager servers (Premium-only, 30-day free trial).
• Most other electricity providers: create a DIY plan using the import, free-energy and export periods, rates and applicable export limits offered by your retailer (Premium-only, 30-day free trial).

Compatibility depends on whether your retailer’s plan can be represented using the available DIY plan settings.

No. Flow Power, Globird and DIY electricity plans are Premium-only (includes a 30-day free trial). The free plan features (monitoring + negative feed-in price curtailing) apply to Amber Electric / LocalVolts only.

Energy Manager can be used with Amber Electric, but Amber SmartShift must not be allowed to control your inverter or battery system.

Energy Manager requires exclusive control to function correctly.

The energymanager.com.au API key enables communication between your local Home Assistant device and our platform. For the Free plan, this allows us to provide personalised insights and enable certain dashboard features. For the Premium plan, it's essential for the advanced automated trading algorithms, price spike anticipation, and other smart features that are processed and managed by our servers.

We receive information about how your solar inverter is performing, including, but not limited to, your current power import from the grid, export to the grid, power load, solar generation, buy and sell pricing, etc. We also obtain weather information from the BOM integration. This information is required to allow the system to make power decisions for you, customised for your setup and geographic location. The system will also keep a high level summary of your typical power consumption activity to predict upcoming usage, again, to help with the decisions that the system will make on your behalf.

No. You should not grant anyone, except perhaps your installer and people you really trust, access to your solar account. Depending on the access that is granted, this may give them direct access to make changes to your system. Energy Manager will send commands back to your Home Assistant device, but the Energy Manager servers do not have access to your solar account and have no access to your network.

No, we have no requirement to install any device in your inverter or to visit your residence.

Once you have signed up, confirmed your email, received your free API key, and successfully set up your Home Assistant device and successfully used our free services, you will be able to upgrade to the Premium plan from your user dashboard on energymanager.com.au. Billing is handled via Stripe on a recurring monthly basis and cancellation is hassle-free and actioned through the website dashboard.

Premium plan savings vary based on your energy usage, battery capacity, local market conditions and electricity plan. For Amber Electric / LocalVolts, savings can come from automated charge/discharge/export strategies during wholesale volatility. For Flow Power, the optimisation is focused on PEA outcomes and bill reduction (not arbitrage), including Happy Hour exporting and cheapest-price charging. For Globird, optimisations are based around Super Sell and Free Buy periods. For DIY plans, optimisation follows the import, free-energy and export periods, rates and limits you configure from your retailer’s offer.

The free plan can still save you money by automatically curtailing your excess energy if export prices are negative (Amber Electric / LocalVolts only, device dependent).

Yes—for Amber Electric / LocalVolts. The free plan includes monitoring features, solar forecasting, negative feed-in price curtailing (device dependent), and manual controls with no time restrictions. You only pay if you want automation and optimisation in the Premium plan.

Flow Power, Globird and DIY electricity plans are Premium-only (includes a 30-day free trial) because the value comes from the full optimisation package, not a single standalone feature.

No. Energy Manager requires a clean, dedicated Home Assistant OS installation.

Running Energy Manager within an existing Home Assistant setup that contains other integrations or automations is not supported, as it can cause conflicts and unpredictable behaviour.

During network outages, Energy Manager continues operating using the most recent available data and falls back to safe self-consumption behaviour until connectivity is restored.

Energy Manager API services are fully redundant for premium subscribers.

If one server becomes unavailable, automatic routing to another server should occur.

Comprehensive documentation and setup guides are provided.

Energy Manager is a self-managed system and assumes users are comfortable reviewing logs, configuration, and system behaviour independently.

Premium users can submit support tickets for confirmed issues related to Energy Manager functionality.

Community based support is available in our Discord server.