{"id":14018,"date":"2025-08-18T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/08\/18\/tutorial-compare-your-solar-forecasts-easy-home-assistant-blueprint\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:58:31","slug":"tutorial-compare-your-solar-forecasts-easy-home-assistant-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/08\/18\/tutorial-compare-your-solar-forecasts-easy-home-assistant-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: Compare Your Solar Forecasts! (Easy Home Assistant Blueprint)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2xuYMzr5Xj0?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Remember my solar forecast comparison video a few weeks ago? (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SAwSA6C4-Qw)\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SAwSA6C4-Qw)<\/a> Well @GaryDoesSolar asked me if it was possible to make comparing solar forecasts easier for anyone who wanted to do so. I had a good think and came up with a Blueprint for Home Assistant and in this video I\u2019ll go over everything you need to know and do in order to configure it yourself. There\u2019s an article to go along with this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaktothegeek.co.uk\/2025\/08\/tutorial-compare-your-solar-forecasts\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.speaktothegeek.co.uk\/2025\/08\/tutorial-compare-your-solar-forecasts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blueprint URL:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sOckhamSter\/homeassistant-blueprints\/blob\/main\/solar_forecast_comparison.yaml\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/sOckhamSter\/homeassistant-blueprints\/blob\/main\/solar_forecast_comparison.yaml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allowlist Configuration for CSV File:<br \/>homeassistant:<br \/>  allowlist_external_dirs:<br \/>    &#8211; \/config\/solarforecasts\/<\/p>\n<p>File Name for CSV File:<br \/>  \/config\/solarforecasts\/solarforecasts.csv<\/p>\n<p>Forecast.Solar integration :<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/integrations\/forecast_solar\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/integrations\/forecast_solar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solcast PV Forecast integration:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/BJReplay\/ha-solcast-solar\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/BJReplay\/ha-solcast-solar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open-Meteo Solar Forecast integration:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rany2\/ha-open-meteo-solar-forecast\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/rany2\/ha-open-meteo-solar-forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HACS (the \u2018App Store\u2019 for Home Assistant)<br \/>  Https:\/\/hacs.xyz<\/p>\n<p>Tutorial: Install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wLgP4mu00MM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/wLgP4mu00MM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary&#8217;s Solarazma Suite:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarazma.com\/suite\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.solarazma.com\/suite\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SolarEdge Tutorial:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z6JdEw9aT8s\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/z6JdEw9aT8s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GivEnergy GivTCP Tutorial:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d06Mqeplvns\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/d06Mqeplvns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buy me a coffee:<br \/>  \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/speaktothegeek\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/speaktothegeek<\/a><br \/>  \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/speaktothegeek\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/speaktothegeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join this channel to get access to perks:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC25zb7Sojh4KUv5CsFYH-6Q\/join\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC25zb7Sojh4KUv5CsFYH-6Q\/join<\/a><br \/>Or join as a patron:<br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/SpeaktotheGeek\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/SpeaktotheGeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an Amazon Associate and member of the eBay Partner Network I earn from qualifying purchases. Most links above are affiliate links and I may earn a small commission from any purchases you make if you use them.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>00:00 Introduction<br \/>00:51 Why not make this available on the web?<br \/>04:04 Pre-requisites<br \/>05:59 Home Assistant Demo<br \/>07:15 Create Text Helpers<br \/>09:02 Install File editor add-on<br \/>09:31 Create folder for CSV output file<br \/>11:25 Create CSV file entity<br \/>12:13 Import the blueprint<br \/>12:44 Create the automation<br \/>14:57 Demo the automation (do not try at home!)<br \/>17:55 Summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my solar forecast comparison video a few weeks ago? (https:\/\/youtu.be\/SAwSA6C4-Qw) Well @GaryDoesSolar asked me if it was possible to make comparing solar forecasts easier for anyone who wanted to do so. I had a good think and came up with a Blueprint for Home Assistant and in this video I\u2019ll go over everything you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":14019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48195,39252,48193,9461,48192,32,770,48194],"tags":[48191,39225,48189,9445,48188,5,755,48190],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forecast-solar","category-home-assistant","category-openmeteo","category-smart-home","category-solar-forecast","category-solar-panels","category-solar-pv","category-solcast","tag-forecast-solar","tag-home-assistant","tag-openmeteo","tag-smart-home","tag-solar-forecast","tag-solar-panels","tag-solar-pv","tag-solcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}