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Hi @Matt Knight, super cool! I don’t have a macbook; but if I’d ever get one.. :-)

That’s funny. Just last night, I decided to put some water tank and SOC metrics in the Menu Bar instead. I guess I am “old school”? :D

I think just need some fancy Unicode glyphs now...

That looks great. If it is easy for you, I would love if you could post the code.

Thanks to MQTT, Homebridge on a raspberry pi, and the mqttthing homebridge plugin, I have integration with Siri and homekit. I can now turn the inverter on/off via Siri/homekit and see the current battery level and voltage.

Here's my homebridge config for anyone interested. It works really well! The only snag is Homekit doesn't really support 'battery level' and 'voltage' as things, so you have to use humidity or temperature.

Cool features:

- You can use it from any homekit device on your network e.g. iPhone/laptop/ipad

- If you have a iPad, apple TV or homepod as a homekit base, you can control and see values remotely!

- Add basic home automation e.g. check at 1pm if the battery is full, turn on the hot water heater.

{
    "bridge": {
        "name": "PiHomebridge3",
        "username": "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF",
        "port": 51826,
        "pin": "031-45-156"
    },
    "accessories": [
        {
            "accessory": "mqttthing",
            "type": "humiditySensor",
            "name": "Battery",
            "url": "http://ccgx.local:1883",
            "mqttOptions": {
                "keepalive": 30
            },
            "topics": {
                "getCurrentRelativeHumidity": {
                    "topic": "N/a0f6fd6b4064/battery/258/Soc",
                    "apply": "return (message!='') ? JSON.parse(message).value.toFixed(0) : 0;"
                }
            },
            "logMqtt": false
        },
        {
            "accessory": "mqttthing",
            "type": "temperatureSensor",
            "name": "Voltage",
            "url": "http://ccgx.local:1883",
            "mqttOptions": {
                "keepalive": 30
            },
            "topics": {
                "getCurrentTemperature": {
                    "topic": "N/a0f6fd6b4064/battery/258/Dc/0/Voltage",
                    "apply": "return (message!='') ? JSON.parse(message).value.toFixed(1) : 0;"
                }
            },
            "logMqtt": false
        },
        {
            "accessory": "mqttthing",
            "type": "switch",
            "name": "Inverter",
            "url": "http://ccgx.local:1883",
            "mqttOptions": {
                "keepalive": 30
            },
            "topics": {
                "setOn": "W/a0f6fd6b4064/vebus/257/Mode",
                "getOn": "N/a0f6fd6b4064/vebus/257/Mode"
            },
            "onValue": "{\"value\": 3}",
            "offValue": "{\"value\": 4}",
            "logMqtt": false
        }
    ],