Adjusting the poll time to my solar edge inverter.

[dbassy]

Hi,

Thanks for the great work on the SolarEdge Modbus Multi integration — I’ve been using it with Home Assistant and have it up and running successfully. I've been using power flow cards, sankey power flow cards and Sunsynk Power Flow Card for near live power monitoring.

I’m now looking to optimise the polling frequency for different types of data. For example, I’d like to poll live power output every few seconds for near real-time updates, but only poll energy totals every few minutes since they change much more slowly.

Would it be possible to implement support for configurable polling intervals per sensor or data type?

Here’s a suggested breakdown:

Type of Data	Suggested Poll Rate
Power output (W)	Every 5–15 seconds
Voltage/Current	Every 10–30 seconds
Energy totals	Every 1–5 minutes
Inverter status	Every 10–60 seconds

This would help reduce unnecessary load on the inverter and also limit the volume of historical data stored in Home Assistant.

Let me know your thoughts or if this would be feasible to add.

Thanks again!

[WillCodeForCats]

Data blocks are polled from the inverter in a single read transactions (inverter is one read, meter is one read, etc.as long as the modbus addresses are contiguous), so splitting reads would actually increase the number of modbus transactions, not reduce them.

This sounds like something that would be suggestion for HA Core to only allow entities to update the database every X time interval.