Aikion is an AI-powered energy management platform. The app for Homey automatically optimize solar, battery and EV chargers to vastly improve the savings and earnings of your home energy solution.
Goal
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Cut your energy costs without hassle. Aikion forecasts your solar production, learns your home's consumption pattern, follows hourly spot prices, and schedules your battery and EV charging so you import less energy, and at a lower cost. The energy you do sell will be sold at a higher value.
Features
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- Hourly battery schedule based on spot prices and a physics-based
solar forecast influenced by weather reports
- Peak shaving for loweriong grid power fees
- Smart EV charging that prioritises surplus solar
- Self-consumption mode when profitable
- Live overview in Homey and in our web app - high resolution history in our web app
- Supported hardware: Sungrow hybrid inverters and batteries,
Deye HV/LV inverters with batteries, Garo EV chargers and energy meters
Simple configuration
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The app requires you to enter a couple of details of your plant - such as number of solar panels, the location of your home. Pair your devices and that's it! Aikion takes over from there and picks the right mode every 10 seconds on its own. Open the Aikion web app to set your subscription, grid fuse limit and preferences, or to override the schedule when you need to.
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When...
Aikion Controller
Run mode changed
Aikion Controller
Device compliance error
Aikion Controller
Grid congestion limit reached
Aikion Controller
Cloud connection status changed
i
Triggered when the controller connects to or disconnects from the Aikion cloud (realtime server). The 'Connected' token is true when connected, false when disconnected.
Aikion Controller
Write to device failed
i
Triggered when Aikion exhausts retries trying to write a value to a connected inverter or charger. The same trigger is rate-limited to once every 30 minutes per device + register.
Charger Box - GLBDC
The electric current changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
The power meter changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
The power changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
The temperature changes
Charger Box - GLBDC
Started charging
Charger Box - GLBDC
Stopped charging
Charger Box - GLBDC
The EV charger charging state changed ...
Charger Box - GLBDC
Charger status changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
Availability mode changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
Current limit changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
Charging power changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
L1 charge current changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
L2 charge current changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
L3 charge current changed
Charger Box - GLBDC
Charged this session changed
Deye Battery
The battery level changed
Deye Battery
The voltage changed
Deye Battery
The electric current changed
Deye Battery
The power changed
Deye Battery
The temperature changes
Deye Battery
Battery power changed
i
Triggered when the battery power changes. Positive = charging, negative = discharging.
Deye Battery
Battery SoC changed
i
Triggered when the battery state of charge changes
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
The power changed
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
The power meter changed
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Export limit changed
i
Triggered when the grid export limit changes
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Solar power changed
i
Triggered when the solar power changes
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
The power changed
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
The power meter changed
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Export limit changed
i
Triggered when the grid export limit changes
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Solar power changed
i
Triggered when the solar power changes
Deye Smart Meter
The power changed
Deye Smart Meter
The frequency changed
Deye Smart Meter
Grid power changed
i
Triggered when the grid power changes. Positive = importing, negative = exporting.
Deye Smart Meter
Load power changed
i
Triggered when the load power changes
Huawei Battery (LUNA)
The battery level changed
Huawei Battery (LUNA)
The power changed
Huawei Battery (LUNA)
The temperature changes
Huawei Smart Meter
The power changed
Huawei Smart Meter
The frequency changed
Huawei SUN2000/SUN5000 Hybrid Inverter
The power changed
Huawei SUN2000/SUN5000 Hybrid Inverter
The power meter changed
OCPP Charger
The power changed
OCPP Charger
The electric current changed
OCPP Charger
The power meter changed
OCPP Charger
Started charging
OCPP Charger
Stopped charging
OCPP Charger
The EV charger charging state changed ...
OCPP Charger
The temperature changes
Smart Meter - GNM3D-RS485
The power meter changed
Sungrow Battery
The power changed
Sungrow Battery
The electric current changed
Sungrow Battery
The voltage changed
Sungrow Battery
The battery level changed
Sungrow Battery
The temperature changes
Sungrow Battery
Battery power changed
i
Triggered when the battery power changes. Positive = charging, negative = discharging.
Sungrow Battery
Battery SoC changed
i
Triggered when the battery state of charge changes
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
The power changed
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
The power meter changed
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
The operational state changed to ...
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Solar power changed
i
Triggered when the solar power changes
Sungrow Smart Meter
The frequency changed
Sungrow Smart Meter
The power changed
Sungrow Smart Meter
Grid power changed
i
Triggered when the grid power changes. Positive = importing, negative = exporting.
Sungrow Smart Meter
Load power changed
i
Triggered when the load power changes
And...
Aikion Controller
Run mode is Mode
Aikion Controller
Automation is enabled
Aikion Controller
Congestion period is active
Charger Box - GLBDC
Is charging
Charger Box - GLBDC
The EV charger charging state is ...
Charger Box - GLBDC
Charger status is Status
Charger Box - GLBDC
Charger mode is Mode
OCPP Charger
Is charging
OCPP Charger
The EV charger charging state is ...
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
The operational state is ...
Then...
Charger Box - GLBDC
Start charging
Charger Box - GLBDC
Stop charging
Charger Box - GLBDC
Set state to Mode
Charger Box - GLBDC
Set current limit to Current limit A
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 5000 W as grid export limit
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 100 A as max charge current
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 100 A as max discharge current
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set ... as EMS mode
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as max SoC
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as min SoC
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as shutdown SoC
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set phase balancing Enabled
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set grid peak shaving Enabled
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 5000 W as grid peak shaving power
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set combined EMS mode to ... at Power (W) W
Deye High Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set battery power to 5000 W for time slot ...
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 5000 W as grid export limit
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 100 A as max charge current
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 100 A as max discharge current
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set ... as EMS mode
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as max SoC
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as min SoC
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set % % as shutdown SoC
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set phase balancing Enabled
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set grid peak shaving Enabled
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set 5000 W as grid peak shaving power
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set combined EMS mode to ... at Power (W) W
Deye Low Voltage Hybrid 3Phase
Set battery power to 5000 W for time slot ...
Huawei SUN2000/SUN5000 Hybrid Inverter
Set 5000 W as grid export limit
Huawei SUN2000/SUN5000 Hybrid Inverter
Set combined EMS mode to ... at Power (W) W
OCPP Charger
Start charging
OCPP Charger
Stop charging
Sungrow Battery
Set % % as max SoC
Sungrow Battery
Set % % as min SoC
Sungrow Battery
Set % % as reserved SoC for backup
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set compulsory mode ... with 1.02 kW
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set 1.02 kW as grid export limit
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set 9.4 kW as max charge power
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set 9.2 kW as max discharge power
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set powered up Powered up
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter
Set ... as EMS mode
Support
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What’s new
Version 2.4.0 — • New: Huawei — total solar production is now reported, in line with the other brands.
• Fix: Sungrow — correct battery capacity with batteries from other manufacturers, such as BYD, which could be shown as 655 kWh.
• Fix: main fuse protection now limits charging as well, including during manual control.
• Fix: Deye — battery current on systems with a single low-voltage battery showed about half the real value.
• Fix: Deye — more stable connection to the inverter logger, especially at startup.
• Fix: Huawei — the fail-safe supervision of forced charging and discharging is now always configured.
• Fix: notifications about failed commands now show a readable error and which inverter it came from.
• Improved: the app reacts to changes in consumption and solar production as soon as fresh sensor values arrive.
• Improved: lighter and faster sensor polling for Huawei.