diff --git a/app/config/default_config.toml b/app/config/default_config.toml
index 9f26f1b..6aa1119 100644
--- a/app/config/default_config.toml
+++ b/app/config/default_config.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ mqtt.passwd  = ''
 ha.auto_conf_prefix = 'homeassistant'       # MQTT prefix for subscribing for homeassistant status updates
 ha.discovery_prefix = 'homeassistant'       # MQTT prefix for discovery topic 
 ha.entity_prefix    = 'tsun'                # MQTT topic prefix for publishing inverter values
+ha.proxy_node_id    = 'proxy'               # MQTT node id, for the proxy_node_id
+ha.proxy_unique_id  = 'P170000000000001'    # MQTT unique id, to identify a proxy instance
 
 # microinverters
 inverters.allow_all = true   # allow inverters, even if we have no inverter mapping