Solar PV Monitoring/Automation Thread

Think met.ie was down temporarily or something as it came back after

Impossible to search this thread, but does anyone know what the default password and username is for the Solis wifi dongle? I've tried admin admin and admin 123456789 ?

I've the Solis S3-WIFI-ST datalogger which appears to be from a different manufacturer, which wasn't accepting 123456789, I had to do a reset to get it working. Thank anyway for the link.

Mine did that itself. I don't think it should be doing that. The installer left the stick for me to setup.

solis and S3-WIFI-ST logger

Can anyone point to where someone has kept SolisCloud connected and got local access for data/configuration?

It requires some hardware mods?

The cumulative totals could be calculated. Just add up the minute by minute power values (divide by 60 to convert kW to kWh for each minute, assuming your time points are in minutes).

Oh. What should you put in the support ticket? I just got access to the monitoring API, I assume it's the same process?

Thanks! I must see how to get the old logger.

That's another question. How to get the monitor api access? How to ask?

How do solis access the new logger? Are there unpublished web server commands? Internally, the logger must talk to the inverter using same serial protocol?

Does the logger encrypt (https) packets? Might see if I could hook it up to a better router than what I have and log packets.

It seems bizarre that solis wants people to use their servers when allowing customers access directly would reduce their server load.

Just got Home Assistant up and running, have been able to integrate a few things so far such as myenergi and my Honeywell evohome.

What easy to follow guides would you recommend for setting up a nice dashboard which can integrate the stats from myenergi and the solis inverter onto one page. Ideally I'd like to show the Eddie, Zappi, house, battery and I've 3 solar strings, 1.2kW East, 1.6kW South and 4kW West as 3 different inputs. The South and East are connected to the Solis while the East is a legacy system that was installed as part of the house build 7-8 years ago. Another cool thing I'd like to do is be able to calculate the energy use by what's used during night and day tariff separately?

As an aside is there anything that can monitor gas usage?

I'm wondering, In what way do folks calculate their consumption rate? Solis appears to calculate it as total power to the inverter DC over total export, so including any power from the battery.

Is the default behaviour of the solis when meeting consumption demand from the battery to put power into the battery or to ease off drain on the battery?

Yep. There are a few assumptions I made when doing my calculations before getting solar, one of them was the consumption rate (ratio?) which is the proportion of solar generated that is self used. Apparently the average in Ireland is only 60%. It was a big part of my motivation to get batteries as they directly smooth out consumption. I estimated I could get to 90% early enough. Currently I’m using 98% of what I generate, less system losses, but it’s winter.

it does seem to be impossible to prevent some degree of export even when operating off batteries, I find I’m exporting a couple hundred watts a day at the moment. I’ve gone through the data sheet for the inverter power meter and the ct clamp each have an accuracy error of 1% for a combined accuracy error of 2%. So given that I’m pulling 12 kWh typically, I suppose that’s reasonable.

Hence my question on consumption calculation. I generated 2kWh yesterday and the battery provided 10kWh. I exported 200 Wh. Should I calculate consumption rate as 90% or 98%.

my second question is basically will the battery charge from solar if there is demand is less than production?

Anyone have a decent Yaml for for Sofar and HA?

Is there a difference between the DLS-W+A and the DLS-W-A? Maybe one of these is a typo on a website?

My work uses a dutch VPN so brought me to this when I googled....

and another one is +A (can't share link for some reason) but they look the same.

Chris

Thanks! My first day looking for one so didn't want to get wrong thing. They seem good value but only delivery to Netherlands!

Best bet is probably to post up in the for sale/wanted thread or on the Facebook group. Quite a few people have changed to the new logger who wanted the app access. That means the old Solarman logger sitting on a shelf somewhere. I did the reverse and sold my S3 logger to someone here. The place I bought the older one is out of stock now.