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JBChimp

Built an alternative Growatt monitor for Android β€” home screen widget shows battery/solar without opening anything

🧱 Custom App

I got fed up with the official Growatt app being slow and ad-heavy, so I built my own.

It's a small app for Growatt solar inverter owners. Here's what it does:

  • Real-time dashboard: battery %, solar production (PPV), home load, charge power
  • Two home screen widgets β€” a compact 3Γ—2 bar widget and a 3Γ—3 arc-gauge that shows everything at a glance
  • Battery low alert β€” push notification when battery drops below a threshold you set
  • Logs in with your existing Growatt credentials, auto-detects your storage device
  • No ads, no analytics, no subscriptions β€” one internet permission, nothing else

It uses the Growatt OpenAPI directly, so it works with any setup that's accessible there.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chimpanzee.tinygrowattmonitor

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests.

Posted Sep 2, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

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