Charge_start_time error

[Inguanez]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to convince Predbat to play ball with a Luxpower inverter. I'm new to HA but I've read the documentation thoroughly and got as far as I can. I am getting the following error in the log file:

"Error: Inverter 0 unable to read charge window time as charge_start_time or charge_end_time is None"

This is what I have in apps.yaml relating to the inverter, I have left it alone so far:
num_inverters: 1
inverter_type: LuxPower
inverter:
name: "LuxPower"
has_rest_api: False
has_mqtt_api: False
has_service_api: True
output_charge_control: "current"
current_dp: 0
has_charge_enable_time: False
has_discharge_enable_time: False
has_target_soc: True
has_reserve_soc: False
has_timed_pause: False
charge_time_format: "HH:MM:SS"
charge_time_entity_is_option: False
soc_units: "%"
num_load_entities: 1
has_ge_inverter_mode: False
time_button_press: False
clock_time_format: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
write_and_poll_sleep: 10
has_time_window: False
support_charge_freeze: False
support_discharge_freeze: False

charge_start_service:
service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: "switch.lux_ac_charge_enable"
charge_stop_service:
service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: "switch.lux_ac_charge_enable"
discharge_start_service:
service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: "switch.lux_force_discharge_enable"
discharge_stop_service:
service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: "switch.lux_force_discharge_enable"

all four of the above entities are on/off switches which enable the charge/discharge schedules, they do not define the times. They are also all enabled and visible in HA.
Charge and Discharge has 3 time slots for each which you can define in the Luxpower app. These have appeared as the following entities:
time.lux_ac_charge_start1
time.lux_ac_charge_end1
time.lux_force_charge_start1
time.lux_force_charge_end1
time.lux_force_discharge_start1
time.lux_force_discharge_end1
(etc, up to 3)

There are also a matching set of entities starting with number.lux_ac_charge_start1 etc.

I'm sure this is a simple setting to change somewhere.. could someone point me in the right direction please?
(happy to share my apps.yaml if that helps)
Thanks!

[gcoan]

The error you're getting indicates that Predbat can't read or set the charge start time

In the sample luxpower apps.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/springfall2008/batpred/main/templates/luxpower.yaml

it has

  charge_start_time:
    - input_text.lux_batpred_charge_start
  charge_end_time:
    - input_text.lux_batpred_charge_end

You probably need to change these to time.lux_ac_charge_start1 and time.lux_ac_charge_end1 if these are what your integration provides

[Inguanez]

That's done it - thank you very much Geoffrey!

[gcoan]

what integration are you using for luxpower, I think the documentation link points to something that doesn't exist any more