Forecast.Solar in Home Assistant
forecast_solar
part of Home Assistant since 2021.7
Forecast.Solar is an official Home Assistant integration for Energy. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 64,867 (9.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Energy
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @klaasnicolaas, @frenck
- Python packages
forecast-solar==5.0.1
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Forecast.Solar.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Predictive solar heating offset
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Forecast.Solar in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #168378
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration