This PR adds three native PV power forecast providers, giving operators more
cloud forecast sources to choose from via pvforecast.provider, alongside the
existing PVForecastAkkudoktor, PVForecastVrm and PVForecastImport:
PVForecastPVNode — native 15-minute forecasts from the pvnode.com
V2 API. Saved-site mode (GET /v2/forecast/{site_id}) where the operator enters their API key +
site id, or inline mode (POST /v2/forecast/inline) using the configured planes.
PVForecastForecastSolar — the free Forecast.Solar API (no key
required for the public endpoint). Multi-plane systems issue one request per plane and the
instantaneous powers are summed per timestamp.
PVForecastSolcast — the Solcast rooftop-site API (API key + resource id).
Implementation notes
All three populate the existing pvforecast_ac_power (and mirror pvforecast_dc_power)
prediction keys, so they slot into the optimizer unchanged.
Timezone handling: pvnode and Forecast.Solar return site-local wall-clock timestamps with an
IANA timezone field, which are resolved to absolute instants before resampling; Solcast returns
UTC period_end and is normalised to the period start.
Each provider follows the existing provider pattern (provider_id(), _request_forecast() with
@cache_in_file, _update_data()), is registered in pvforecast.py and prediction.py, and is
upstream-neutral.
Validation
27 unit tests (timezone resolution, null/zero handling, kW→W and period-start conversion,
azimuth conversion, multi-plane summation, request URL/auth, HTTP-error handling).
ruff check (F/D/S/bandit) and ruff format clean.
Each provider was additionally validated against its live API with a real plant, confirming
the response shapes (pvnode: 288 native 15-min slots; Forecast.Solar: instantaneous watts;
Solcast: kW estimates with period_end/PT30M).
Documentation
Provider descriptions and configuration examples added to docs/akkudoktoreos/prediction.md.
CHANGELOG.md entry under Unreleased.
Regenerated docs/_generated/configpvforecast.md and configexample.md.
Notes for reviewers
Forecast.Solar's free endpoint is rate-limited (12 req/hour) and Solcast's free tier limits daily
calls; both providers rely on the standard 1-hour cache_in_file TTL to stay within budget.
Authors:
The code is created by Christin. Only minor adaptions by Bobby.
Signed-off-by: Christin <info@bikinibottom.capital>
Signed-off-by: Bobby Noelte <b0661n0e17e@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Christin <info@bikinibottom.capital>
