FAstAPI is an async framework. Data may be imported and exported, load and save, set and get asynchronously. Prevent interleaving data operations to corrupt the data. In the previous design sync and async data access was intermixed leading to data corruption. The basic data classes DataSequence and DataContainer and the derived classes like Provider and Measurement now are async. Data access is protected by several async locks. To support the async design of the data classes the database interface became async. The energy management is also adapted to the new async design. Optimization is still off-loaded to another thread, but the prepration for the optimization and the post optimization actions now follow the async design. Adapter operations are now also protected by async locks. Tests were adapted to the async design and new tests were created. Besides this major fix several other improvements and fixes are included in this PR. * fix: key_to_dict/list/array only regard data records with key value set. Before the exclusion of no value data records was only done if the dropna flag was set. * fix: test for visual result pdf generation Due to updates in the library the generated charts text was a little bit different. Adapt the test to create the comaprison pdf in the test data durectory and update the reference pdf. * chore: Remove MutableMapping from DataSequence and DataContainer. Mutable Mapping does not fit to the now async design. * chore: Add NoDB database backend This backend implements the full database backend interface but performs no actual persistence. It is intended for configurations where database persistence is disabled (`provider=None`). * chore: Improve measurement data import testing with real world scenarios. Added two new endpoints to support testing. * chore: Add mermaid to supported documentation tools * chore: Add documentation about async design * chore: Add documentation about generic data handling Covers the basics of measurement and prediction time series data handling. * chore: Add empty lines around markdown lists. * chore: sync pre-commit config to updated package versions Signed-off-by: Bobby Noelte <b0661n0e17e@gmail.com>
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POST /optimize Optimization
Introduction
The POST /optimize API endpoint optimizes your energy management system based on various inputs
including electricity prices, battery storage capacity, PV forecast, and temperature data.
The POST /optimize optimization interface is the "classical" interface developed by Andreas at the
start of the projects and used and described in his videos. It allows and requires to define all the
optimization paramters on the endpoint request.
:::{admonition} Warning
:class: warning
The POST /optimize endpoint interface does not regard configurations set for the parameters
passed to the request. You have to set the parameters even if given in the configuration.
:::
:::{admonition} Warning
:class: warning
To prevent automatic optimization from interfering with POST /optimize requests, set ems.mode
to DISABLED in the configuration.
:::
Input Payload
Sample Request
{
"ems": {
"preis_euro_pro_wh_akku": 0.0001,
"einspeiseverguetung_euro_pro_wh": [
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007,
0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007, 0.00007
],
"gesamtlast": [
676.71, 876.19, 527.13, 468.88, 531.38, 517.95, 483.15, 472.28,
1011.68, 995.00, 1053.07, 1063.91, 1320.56, 1132.03, 1163.67,
1176.82, 1216.22, 1103.78, 1129.12, 1178.71, 1050.98, 988.56, 912.38,
704.61, 516.37, 868.05, 694.34, 608.79, 556.31, 488.89, 506.91,
804.89, 1141.98, 1056.97, 992.46, 1155.99, 827.01, 1257.98, 1232.67,
871.26, 860.88, 1158.03, 1222.72, 1221.04, 949.99, 987.01, 733.99,
592.97
],
"pv_prognose_wh": [
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8.05, 352.91, 728.51, 930.28, 1043.25, 1106.74,
1161.69, 6018.82, 5519.07, 3969.88, 3017.96, 1943.07, 1007.17,
319.67, 7.88, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5.04, 335.59, 705.32,
1121.12, 1604.79, 2157.38, 1433.25, 5718.49, 4553.96, 3027.55,
2574.46, 1720.4, 963.4, 383.3, 0, 0, 0
],
"strompreis_euro_pro_wh": [
0.0003384, 0.0003318, 0.0003284, 0.0003283, 0.0003289, 0.0003334,
0.0003290, 0.0003302, 0.0003042, 0.0002430, 0.0002280, 0.0002212,
0.0002093, 0.0001879, 0.0001838, 0.0002004, 0.0002198, 0.0002270,
0.0002997, 0.0003195, 0.0003081, 0.0002969, 0.0002921, 0.0002780,
0.0003384, 0.0003318, 0.0003284, 0.0003283, 0.0003289, 0.0003334,
0.0003290, 0.0003302, 0.0003042, 0.0002430, 0.0002280, 0.0002212,
0.0002093, 0.0001879, 0.0001838, 0.0002004, 0.0002198, 0.0002270,
0.0002997, 0.0003195, 0.0003081, 0.0002969, 0.0002921, 0.0002780
]
},
"pv_akku": {
"device_id": "battery1",
"capacity_wh": 26400,
"max_charge_power_w": 5000,
"initial_soc_percentage": 80,
"min_soc_percentage": 15
},
"inverter": {
"device_id": "inverter1",
"max_power_wh": 10000,
"battery_id": "battery1",
"ac_to_dc_efficiency": 0.95,
"dc_to_ac_efficiency": 0.95,
"max_ac_charge_power_w": 5000
},
"eauto": {
"device_id": "ev1",
"capacity_wh": 60000,
"charging_efficiency": 0.95,
"charge_rates": [0.0, 0.375, 0.5, 0.625, 0.75, 0.875, 1.0],
"discharging_efficiency": 1.0,
"max_charge_power_w": 11040,
"initial_soc_percentage": 54,
"min_soc_percentage": 0
},
"dishwasher": {
"device_id": "dishwasher1",
"consumption_wh": 2000,
"duration_h": 3,
"time_windows": null
},
"temperature_forecast": [
18.3, 17.8, 16.9, 16.2, 15.6, 15.1, 14.6, 14.2, 14.3, 14.8, 15.7, 16.7, 17.4,
18.0, 18.6, 19.2, 19.1, 18.7, 18.5, 17.7, 16.2, 14.6, 13.6, 13.0, 12.6, 12.2,
11.7, 11.6, 11.3, 11.0, 10.7, 10.2, 11.4, 14.4, 16.4, 18.3, 19.5, 20.7, 21.9,
22.7, 23.1, 23.1, 22.8, 21.8, 20.2, 19.1, 18.0, 17.4
],
"start_solution": null
}
Input Parameters
Energy Management System (EMS)
Battery Cost (preis_euro_pro_wh_akku)
- Unit: €/Wh
- Purpose: Represents the residual value of energy stored in the battery
- Impact: Lower values encourage battery depletion, higher values preserve charge at the end of the simulation.
Feed-in Tariff (einspeiseverguetung_euro_pro_wh)
- Unit: €/Wh
- Purpose: Compensation received for feeding excess energy back to the grid
Total Load Forecast (gesamtlast)
- Unit: W
- Time Range: 48 hours (00:00 today to 23:00 tomorrow)
- Format: Array of hourly values
- Note: Exclude optimizable loads (EV charging, battery charging, etc.)
Data Sources
- Standard Load Profile:
GET /v1/prediction/list?key=load_meanfor a standard load profile based on your yearly consumption. - Adjusted Load Profile:
GET /v1/prediction/list?key=load_mean_adjustedfor a combination of a standard load profile based on your yearly consumption incl. data from last 48h.
PV Generation Forecast (pv_prognose_wh)
- Unit: W
- Time Range: 48 hours (00:00 today to 23:00 tomorrow)
- Format: Array of hourly values
- Data Source:
GET /v1/prediction/series?key=pvforecast_ac_power
Electricity Price Forecast (strompreis_euro_pro_wh)
- Unit: €/Wh
- Time Range: 48 hours (00:00 today to 23:00 tomorrow)
- Format: Array of hourly values
- Data Source:
GET /v1/prediction/list?key=elecprice_marketprice_wh
Verify prices against your local tariffs.
Battery Storage System
Configuration
device_id: ID of batterycapacity_wh: Total battery capacity in Whcharging_efficiency: Charging efficiency (0-1)discharging_efficiency: Discharging efficiency (0-1)max_charge_power_w: Maximum charging power in W
State of Charge (SoC)
initial_soc_percentage: Current battery level (%)min_soc_percentage: Minimum allowed SoC (%)max_soc_percentage: Maximum allowed SoC (%)
Inverter
device_id: ID of invertermax_power_wh: Maximum inverter power in Whbattery_id: ID of batteryac_to_dc_efficiency: Efficiency of AC→DC conversion for grid-to-battery AC charging (0-1). Set to0to disable AC charging via inverter. Default1.0(backward compatible, no additional inverter loss — existing batterycharging_efficiencyapplies).dc_to_ac_efficiency: Efficiency of DC→AC conversion for battery discharging to AC load/grid (0-1). Must be > 0. Default1.0(backward compatible).max_ac_charge_power_w: Maximum AC charging power in watts.nullmeans no additional limit (battery's ownmax_charge_power_wapplies). Set to0to disable AC charging. Defaultnull.
Efficiency Model
The inverter efficiency parameters cleanly separate the DC battery efficiency from the AC↔DC inverter conversion efficiency:
- DC charging from PV surplus: PV → Battery (direct DC, only
charging_efficiencyapplies) - AC charging from grid: Grid (AC) → Inverter (
ac_to_dc_efficiency) → Battery (charging_efficiency) - Discharging to AC load/grid: Battery (
discharging_efficiency) → Inverter (dc_to_ac_efficiency) → Load/Grid (AC)
Round-trip efficiency for AC charging and discharging:
η_round_trip = ac_to_dc_efficiency × charging_efficiency × discharging_efficiency × dc_to_ac_efficiency
For profitability, the discharge electricity price must exceed:
buy_price / η_round_trip
Backward compatibility: With default values (ac_to_dc_efficiency=1.0,
dc_to_ac_efficiency=1.0, max_ac_charge_power_w=null), existing configurations work identically.
To model realistic inverter losses, set both efficiencies to a value like 0.95 and adjust
battery efficiencies to reflect pure DC losses only (typically 0.96–0.99 for Li-ion).
AC Charging Break-Even Penalty
The genetic optimizer includes an economic break-even check as a fitness penalty to guide convergence away from unprofitable AC grid charging. For each scheduled AC charging hour the optimizer checks whether the best future discharge price (after accounting for round-trip losses) actually recovers the charging cost.
Free PV energy handling: Energy already stored in the battery from PV generation (zero grid cost) is treated as a free resource that covers the most expensive future hours first. AC grid charging is only evaluated against the remaining uncovered hours.
The penalty magnitude is:
penalty = ac_wh_charged × (break_even_price − best_uncovered_price) × factor
where:
break_even_price = charge_price / η_round_tripbest_uncovered_price= highest future price not already covered by free PV battery energyfactor=optimization.genetic.penalties.ac_charge_break_even(default1.0)
The penalty does not replace the simulation cost — it amplifies the economic loss signal so the algorithm converges faster away from unprofitable charging regions.
To tune the aggressiveness of this penalty, set penalties.ac_charge_break_even in the
optimization configuration. A value of 1.0 corresponds to the exact economic loss in €.
Larger values (e.g. 3.0) make the algorithm more aggressively avoid unprofitable AC charging;
smaller values (e.g. 0.0) disable the penalty entirely.
Electric Vehicle (EV)
device_id: ID of electric vehiclecapacity_wh: Battery capacity in Whcharging_efficiency: Charging efficiency (0-1)discharging_efficiency: Discharging efficiency (0-1)max_charge_power_w: Maximum charging power in Winitial_soc_percentage: Current charge level (%)min_soc_percentage: Minimum allowed SoC (%)max_soc_percentage: Maximum allowed SoC (%)
Temperature Forecast
- Unit: °C
- Time Range: 48 hours (00:00 today to 23:00 tomorrow)
- Format: Array of hourly values
- Data Source:
GET /v1/prediction/list?key=weather_temp_air
Output Format
Sample Response
{
"ac_charge": [0.625, 0, ..., 0.75, 0],
"dc_charge": [1, 1, ..., 1, 1],
"discharge_allowed": [0, 0, 1, ..., 0, 0],
"eautocharge_hours_float": [0.625, 0, ..., 0.75, 0],
"result": {
"Last_Wh_pro_Stunde": [...],
"EAuto_SoC_pro_Stunde": [...],
"Einnahmen_Euro_pro_Stunde": [...],
"Gesamt_Verluste": 1514.96,
"Gesamtbilanz_Euro": 2.51,
"Gesamteinnahmen_Euro": 2.88,
"Gesamtkosten_Euro": 5.39,
"akku_soc_pro_stunde": [...]
}
}
Output Parameters
Battery Control
ac_charge: Grid charging schedule (0.0-1.0)dc_charge: DC charging schedule (0-1)discharge_allowed: Discharge permission (0 or 1)
0 (no charge) 1 (charge with full load)
ac_charge multiplied by the maximum charge power of the battery results in the planned charging
power.
EV Charging
eautocharge_hours_float: EV charging schedule (0.0-1.0)
Results
The result object contains detailed information about the optimization outcome. The length of the
array is between 25 and 48 and starts at the current hour and ends at 23:00 tomorrow.
-
Last_Wh_pro_Stunde: Array of hourly load values in Wh- Shows the total energy consumption per hour
- Includes household load, battery charging/discharging, and EV charging
-
EAuto_SoC_pro_Stunde: Array of hourly EV state of charge values (%)- Shows the projected EV battery level throughout the optimization period
-
Einnahmen_Euro_pro_Stunde: Array of hourly revenue values in Euro -
Gesamt_Verluste: Total energy losses in Wh -
Gesamtbilanz_Euro: Overall financial balance in Euro -
Gesamteinnahmen_Euro: Total revenue in Euro -
Gesamtkosten_Euro: Total costs in Euro -
akku_soc_pro_stunde: Array of hourly battery state of charge values (%)
Timeframe overview
:alt: Timeframe Overview
Timeframe Overview