Anker P1 Home Assistant integrates locally without the Anker cloud

A new custom integration allows you toconnectAnker P1 Energy Tracker to Home Assistant directly through your local network, without using an Anker cloud account and without requiring an Internet connection. The project, presented incommunityof Home Assistant, reads the device's raw DSMR data and provides measurements relating to energy consumption, production and exchange. This is still a recent solution, for which the developer is collecting feedback from users with different counters.

How Anker P1 Home Assistant works on your local network

The Anker P1 Home Assistant integration communicates directly with your device over your local network. According to the description published by the author, the link allows you to read the raw DSMR data without going through Anker's cloud services. The absence of the requirement for a cloud account and an Internet connection is one of the distinctive aspects of the project.

Local communication concerns the acquisition of energy information from the tracker. The presentation does not specify further details on connection protocols, network requirements or association procedures: it is therefore not possible to reconstruct more precise configuration steps based solely on published information.

Which energy measurements are supported

Reported measurements include real-time consumption and production, as well as imported and exported energy. L1, L2 and L3 phase values ​​are also supported, to include per-phase readings when available through the device and meter used.

The description also mentions gas, water and other M-Bus meters. Among the possibilities indicated are the adjustment of the frequency of interrogation of the device and the reading of Anker diagnostic meters. However, there are no examples of dashboards, entity lists or checks on specific meter models: the declared support does not equate to compatibility already verified with each installation.

Installation via HACS and project status

The project can be installed through HACS by adding the custom GitHub repository namedchill-uk/anker-solix-p1-ha. The community report indicates this deployment mode, but does not detail subsequent configuration screens or any additional prerequisites.

The author underlines that the integration is still new and invites those who use different meters to share feedback and reports. This element is important to correctly interpret the status of the project: the listed functions represent what was declared in the initial presentation, while the experience on different meters is still the subject of gathering feedback.