Built an alternative Growatt monitor for Android β home screen widget shows battery/solar without opening anything
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 3Γ2 bar widget and a 3Γ3 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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