Enphase requires donation to monitor both ways

Questions
#1

I just wonder why enphase users are obliged to donate and set up a second system to monitor production and consumption, when other users get this functionality for free? This does not seem equitable.

I guess there might also be no motivation for the site owners to improve things for enphase owners, when the current set up obliges this group of users to pay for what others get for free.

Is there any plan at all to set up bidirectional monitoring for us without having to set up a secondary system on the form?

Maybe everyone who uses the web site ought to be obliged to donate. At least that would be fair and equitable.

Thanks for considering this issue

#2

I have donated by the way, and have no issue with that aspect, just the inequality of the situation.

#5

I was more than happy to make a donation to cover any cost pvoutput incurred subscribing to the Enphase API to support not only my good self but a relatively small number of discrete Enphase users. To impose a donation on persons who do not avail themselves of that API functionality would in my view go as far as to create an inequality in equal measure.

#6

I, also, was quite happy to make a donation, and I do hope that this helps PVoutput to continue what is an excellent service for Enphase users. However, it still seems a bit unfair to me that users of other systems get similar API functionality for free. I wonder if there is some reason why this is the case, such as Enphase charging PVoutput to use their API, more computing power or resources being required, etc. It would be nice to know the reason, but, if not, I’m still very happy with the PVoutput service, which is powerful, versatile, and better by far than any similar service I have come across.

#7

I agree pvoutput is powerful, versatile and better than the MyEnlighten Interface in most cases. The problem that I currently having due to stability issues with the MyEnlighten ‘Monthly Net Energy Reports - continually missing data attributes like battery charge and discharge values’. Have you looked into how to get battery performance data? According to pvoutput this data is not supported by the Enphase API.