Communicating with Loads

To have loads captured and controlled by the Sunny Home Manager, you must establish a connection between the load and Sunny Home Manager:

• Via radio-controlled sockets/relays as intermediate switches (not directly communicating loads)

  • Capturing the energy consumption of individual home appliances: measuring function of the assigned radio-controlled socket

  • Controlling home appliances: on/off function of the assigned device. Radio-controlled sockets must be in automatic mode.

• Via the standard protocol interfaces (directly communicating loads)

Measuring and switching

If a load is connected to the Sunny Home Manager via a switching device with a measuring function, e.g., a radio-controlled socket, this can measure the energy consumption of the connected load and transmit it to the Sunny Home Manager. For this purpose, the switching device must be assigned to the Sunny Home Manager system.

A radio-controlled socket cannot be used to measure the load's power consumption if it is controlled using a relay or contactor.

The Sunny Home Manager system can switch loads connected to the switching device on and off.

If a load is not assigned to a switching device, the Sunny Home Manager does not receive consumption data from this load and it cannot control this load ( > Assigning a Switching Device).

A load can either be permanently connected to the same switching device or to alternate switching devices. For each change, the load must be assigned to the new switching device.

Since the Sunny Home Manager does not receive any detailed data on loads if they are controlled via switching devices, you will need to make additional settings in the load profiles depending on the respective load type ( > Selecting the Load Type). Thus, the Sunny Home Manager can effectively schedule the loads and help save energy and costs.

Direct communication of devices using data exchange protocols

This connection option is only possible for smart appliances which communicate with the Sunny Home Manager via a data exchange protocol such as EEBus or SEMP ( > Directly Controlling Loads).

Since the load transmits all information about its energy demand and consumption directly to the Sunny Home Manager and exchanges this information with it automatically, you cannot configure a directly communicating load yourself.

An exception are loads that are able to absorb optional energy. With these, the priority and rules for switching on when optional power is actually requested can be set. The settings are already made when you add the device to your Sunny Home Manager system via the configuration wizard ( > Adding a Device with EEBus or SEMP Interface).