Fronius + Nibe

What Zerofy can do with Fronius and Nibe

In practice

• Hot water is the simplest heat store: Autopilot can use the hot-water boost of your Nibe heat pump to heat water in hours with surplus.
• A heat pump draws roughly 1–3 kW while running, which a typical Fronius home system (3–10 kW) can cover on sunny days.
• Zerofy gets new Fronius data every 5 minutes. Heat pumps shouldn’t switch often, so set a minimum runtime in Autopilot.
• Zerofy also shows your Fronius battery, so you can see whether surplus goes into the battery or into the heat pump.
• Leave the normal hot-water comfort mode at a moderate level so the tank has headroom; a boost triggered on surplus then stores midday solar as hot water for the evening. EME 20 is not needed for this, since Zerofy reads the surplus from your inverter’s cloud.

What Fronius and Nibe offer on their own

Fronius: The Fronius Ohmpilot feeds surplus into a heating rod (0.3–3 kW single-phase, 0.9–9 kW three-phase) and has a control output for a heat pump with an SG Ready input. GEN24 inverters can also switch an SG Ready input through one of their four digital outputs plus a coupling relay, and Fronius lists direct integrations with heat pumps from IDM, Bosch and NIBE.

Nibe: NIBE’s own PV solution is the EME 20 communication module for S-series units (S1155, S1255, SMO S40, VVM S320/S325). It reads the inverter over RS485 Modbus RTU (SunSpec) and, under menu 4.2.2 “Solar electricity”, lets the heat pump raise room, hot-water or pool temperature when there is surplus; with an extra energy meter household consumption can be prioritised.

Directly, without Zerofy: NIBE S-series heat pumps read PV power and grid surplus from a GEN24 and its Fronius Smart Meter over the home network and raise heating and hot-water setpoints with the built-in PV-Smart function.

Zerofy is the alternative if you want Fronius, Nibe and your other devices in one app, with dynamic tariffs and forecast-based Smart mode.

Setting up Fronius and Nibe in Zerofy

1. Connect Fronius

Zerofy reads your system from Fronius Solar.web through a guest account that you create for Zerofy.

1. Make sure your Fronius inverter is online and shows up in Solar.web.
2. In Solar.web, go to Settings → Permissions and create a new guest account.
3. Add Fronius in Zerofy and log in with the guest account credentials.

Step-by-step guide for Fronius

2. Connect Nibe

Zerofy connects to the myUplink cloud API with your myUplink login (OAuth) and shows the heat pump as a Space Heating and a Hot Water Tank device; Autopilot controls the hot-water boost.

1. Register the heat pump in myUplink and make sure it is online.
2. Activate a myUplink Premium subscription for the system.
3. In Zerofy, add Nibe and log in with your myUplink credentials.
4. Enable Autopilot (Solar or Smart mode) for the Hot Water Tank.

Good to know: Without a myUplink Premium subscription the API access does not work. Zerofy currently steers only the hot-water boost; flow-temperature control is not available yet.

Step-by-step guide for Nibe

3. Turn on Autopilot

In Zerofy, open your Nibe heat pump, turn on Autopilot and choose Solar – or Smart to also use dynamic tariffs and forecasts. Set the priority, activation threshold and minimum runtime.

Dynamic tariffs

Zerofy can also run your Nibe heat pump on dynamic electricity prices (EPEX Spot or Nord Pool, e.g. Tibber or aWATTar) or on a fixed time-of-use tariff. Smart mode combines those prices with forecasts of your household consumption and your Fronius solar production.

Learn more about Smart Mode

About Fronius and Nibe

Fronius – Austrian manufacturer of inverters, welding and battery-charging technology. Homeowners typically have a Primo GEN24 (single-phase, 3–6 kW) or Symo GEN24 (three-phase, 3–10 kW) hybrid inverter, older Primo/Symo SnapINverters, and the Fronius Reserva battery (6.3–15.8 kWh). Monitoring app: Fronius Solar.web.

Nibe – NIBE is a Swedish heat pump maker (Markaryd). Homeowners typically have a ground-source S1155/S1255, an air-to-water heat pump with an SMO or VVM indoor unit, or an exhaust-air F730/F750, all connected to the myUplink cloud. Products: S1155, S1255, S2125 with SMO S40 / VVM S320, F-series (F1155, F1255, F2120, F730, F750).

Manufacturer information last checked: October 2026.

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