Automate your solar battery with full control and 100% transparency

SoCrates automates around live AEMO or Amber prices, weather, forecasts, and battery conditions while keeping live battery flow, charge or discharge ETA, and the rule reason readable on the dashboard. Set the rules. Inspect the logic. Stay in control.

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Free for first 1000  ·  No credit card  ·  No hardware changes

Works with Tesla Powerwall Beta Beta Testing
AEMO Pricing / Manual Tariffs  +  Amber Electric  +  Tesla EV Integration
How it works

Up and running in 5 minutes

No coding. No hardware changes. Three quick steps.

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Connect your inverter

Paste your inverter API key and device serial. SoCrates verifies the connection instantly; no cables required.

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Set your rules

Set charge, discharge, or export rules with simple conditions: live pricing, tariffs, battery level, time, and solar forecast. Start from a template or build your own.

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Save automatically

Rules run on the cloud cadence you configure and send commands automatically. Check in anytime, or just watch your bill drop.

Features

Everything you need to automate your energy

Automation Engine

Rules evaluate on the cloud cadence you choose. Combine price signals, battery SoC, time of day, solar, weather, and optional import/export caps. First matching rule fires with a full decision log, plus cooldown guardrails that prevent overlapping retriggers.

Price & Weather

Blend live AEMO regional prices, Amber retail prices, or manual tariffs with forward price outlooks and multi-day weather forecasts. Act before spikes, negative-price windows, or curtailment events.

Automation Lab

Test any rule before going live. Simulate spikes, low SoC, or cloudy days and see exactly which rule fires and why, without touching your inverter.

Backtests & Optimiser

Replay recent history against passive self-use, current rules, candidates, or manual tariff plans. Then score bounded rule variants before applying changes.

Solar Curtailment Monitor

Automatically limits export when feed-in prices drop below your threshold. Set your floor price once and SoCrates enforces it every minute.

ROI & Automation History

See the dollar impact of every fired rule with daily, weekly, and monthly history. Track savings clearly and export your data anytime.

Weekly Benchmarks

Compare your completed weeks against the platform on self-sufficiency, solar use, grid import, and confidence. See percentile bands, standout signals, and where automation materially shaped the result.

Quick Controls

Need to react fast? Trigger one-tap charge/discharge with power and duration controls, then return to automation with timed auto-resume.

Tesla EV Integration

Connect Tesla in Settings, monitor EV status in the dashboard, and send start, stop, and charge-limit commands when readiness checks pass.

Community Rules Library

Filter by category, difficulty, and scenario. Search instantly, import templates in one click, and customize with plain-English summaries.

Private & Secure

Per-user isolated accounts on Google Firestore. Inverter API keys are never returned to the browser after setup and never shared with third parties.

Market Insights

Track AEMO price trends, volatility, negative-price events, and the regions now live for AEMO-powered automation. Open the public preview.

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Product Walkthrough

Automation Dashboard & Overview - live pricing, active rules, battery status, and savings in one place.

Tailored
automation cadence
800
households already automating
30
Library rules ready to import
5 min
average setup time
Community

What early users are saying

Feedback from the solar community who were first through the door.

“After a few tweaks to my automations it’s all working perfectly now and covers 100% of my use case.”
gumbes via Reddit
“Just installed a big FoxESS system today and this thing looks absolutely incredible! I’ve already made an account.”
FluffyMrFox via Reddit
“Looks fantastic and just what I was after. Did a really quick forced discharge and it works perfectly.”
WRXY1 via Reddit
“This is exactly what I was hoping to achieve with Home Assistant, but hit a brick wall. This looks amazing — can’t wait to try.”
DaiShan14 via Reddit
“What an awesome system you’ve developed. You’ve done a stellar job here.”
naturald2k via Reddit
“I also see you’ve made a rules library available! Wow. I was hesitant to make the switch, but this changes my mind. Thanks heaps.”
ObjectivePension5032 via Reddit
Tools

Free tools for smarter home energy decisions

Estimate battery economics, compare market conditions, and find a practical starting point for automation. Useful whether you are already running a setup or still working through the numbers.

Trusted by 800 households already tuning battery timing with SoCrates.

ROI calculator
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Battery ROI Calculator

Estimate annual battery value and automation upside before changing your setup.

Start in ~2 minutes. No login required.

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Wear economics
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Battery Wear Estimator

Estimate wear cost per cycle before assuming a battery strategy is genuinely profitable.

Manual assumptions only. No fake battery health claims.

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Market snapshot
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Market Snapshot

See recent price moves, volatility, and negative-price activity in your region.

Same live pricing context now available inside SoCrates.

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Starter rules
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Rule Template Recommender

Answer a few questions and get a starter rule bundle to review.

Plain-English recommendation first. Import stays in the authenticated rules library.

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Blog

Field notes from smarter battery automation

Latest post 3 May 2026 15 min read

Why Electricity Prices Get Volatile in Australia

Electricity prices in Australia can move from negative to extreme highs in the same day. Here’s why: demand, rooftop solar, weather, outages, interconnectors, batteries and market design.

This piece explains the nine structural reasons the NEM produces sharp price swings, from the five-minute dispatch cycle to regional separation, stacked volatility events, and what that actually means for households with batteries.

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Pricing

Free for the first 1000.

A passion project grown into a fully featured platform, built with input from real solar households. The first 1000 sign-ups get unlimited access, free — no trial, no lock-in, no asterisk.

Community Edition
Free
$0

Full SoCrates access, no feature limits, no hidden upgrade gates.

  • Unlimited automation rules
  • Full community rules library
  • Automation Lab simulations, backtests & optimiser
  • Solar curtailment monitor
  • ROI & automation history
  • Time segment scheduler (8 segments)
  • Live AEMO prices + Amber tariffs
  • Weather & solar intelligence
  • Real-time inverter dashboard
  • Tesla EV connect + status visibility
  • Manual override with auto-resume
Community spots First 1000 — free
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SoCrates grew from community feedback, testing and real-world use. Early members helped shape every feature — this is our thank-you. First 1000 sign-ups get free access.

FAQ

Common questions

Can't find an answer? Send us a message.

Which inverter brands are supported?
FoxESS and AlphaESS are fully supported today. Sigenergy onboarding is available in testing via the official developer-app flow. Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow onboarding are available now in beta. Sungrow setup requires an iSolarCloud developer portal account with an App Key and Secret Key (free to register). Sigenergy currently supports direct public work-mode control, while scheduler-backed charge and discharge automation remains limited. More brands are on the roadmap — let us know which you'd like to see next.
Do I need to be an electrician or developer?
No. SoCrates connects to your inverter through the manufacturer's existing cloud API using the credentials that provider exposes. No hardware modifications, no coding — just copy the required serial, API, or developer-portal details into the setup wizard.
Which electricity retailers / price feeds are supported?
AEMO live regional prices are now supported across NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, and VIC. Amber Electric remains supported for customer-specific live and forecast pricing. Static time-of-use schedules also work without any live price feed.
Do you support EV integration?
Yes. Tesla EV integration is available now through Settings. You can connect by VIN with OAuth, view EV readiness and status on the dashboard, and use start/stop/set-charge-limit controls when Tesla command prerequisites are met.
How does automation work — is it always-on?
Yes. SoCrates runs a configurable cloud scheduler that evaluates your rules in priority order on the cadence you set. The first rule whose conditions are all met sends a command to your inverter. You can pause automation globally with the Master toggle any time.
Is my inverter API key stored securely?
Credentials are stored encrypted in Google Firestore with per-user access rules. They are never returned to the browser after initial setup or shared with third parties.
Will the first 1000 users stay free?
Yes. Early members get free access. If and when pricing changes for new sign-ups in the future, we're committed to giving early members ample notice and fair options. Right now, the focus is on building something genuinely useful.
What happens after the 1000 spots fill up?
Pricing for sign-ups beyond the first 1000 is TBD — community-first, nothing extractive. We'll involve early members in that conversation before anything changes.
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