Solar PV Monitoring/Automation Thread

After another day of trying to sort..still no joy. It looks like my hard drives are missing and I've tried nearly everything. Spoke to microsoft today again and they couldn't help. Pain in the backside..

Will do that today.

I tried installing a new copy of win 10 using flash USB and made it about 7% , couldn't find hard drive (where to put it).

Also tried uninstalling it from grub bootloader (I think) and again I couldn't find dir containing c drive etc..

There is nothing of any use on this pc (except win 10, but I can get that later)

I never partitioned before install and maybe that's not good..

I'll try your idea and check out ubuntu again

Tks again - lesson learned

Just got the following email response from ESB Networks, which might be of interest to others:

"ESB Networks are not giving access to the smart meter ports to facilitate in - home displays for monitoring consumption at this time."

I was planning on using this P1 port to monitor usage via my recently installed Smart Meter.

So it seems to me they are restricting access until they (and/or partners) have an IHD offering available to market. It smells a bit like anti-competitiveness to me, as it is an electrically protected (opto isolation) port and has a pretty stable & well documented interface definition.

Fortunately, I am able to track usage using the IMPULSE led of the meter, but the P1 port would be much nicer because it provides a (limited) 5V supply.

Why would you change the details on 20 devices, when you only have to change one to allow all 20 to work again

Yes when you change wifi router you should change ssid and password to the same you had - think I'd go crazy trying to set up 70-80 odd devices all over again.

But I noticed if solis loses wifi it might also go into this AP mode where you have to connect to the access point it creates and set it up again OR unplug the solis wifi dongle and plug it back and it should pick it up automatically then if the new wifi is set up like the last one.

Done - however the solis dongle was hassle, tried numerous occasions but eventually got it..cheers

Anybody else's solis cloud app throwing errors and showing random other locations/plants every time they open the app.

It's worth taking a screengrab. You might get more traction with a support ticket if you can show you're seeing data you shouldn't

I'll really need to spend a bit of time setting up local access and ditch the app.

Hi all. Not sure if anyone else is noticed this issue, but since the 27 of Feb, when I run a report on Soliscloud I get different yield figures between when I run a Plant Report and an Inverter Report. All other days previous to this are the same. Not sure the reason for this, the readings on the inverter itself correspond with the inverter report.