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I'm also a long time Home Assistant user. I had my inverter, battery, relays, etc. integrated and solar forecasting via SolCast, to predict when my batteries will be fully charged to switch inverter mode: I then discovered SolarAssistant and basically abandoned my whole HomeAssistant setup...

Looks like latest beta can now edit Growatt inverter settings: https://solar-assistant.io/help/updates/changelog

Hi mrzed001 I previously used ICC and converted to solar assistant. It's overall significantly better including the power management: https://solar-assistant.io/help/power-management/axpert The cable to the inverter is typically a USB to USB B (printer cable) or for the newer models it's USB...

A really easy way to monitor your Sol-Ark inverter is with solar assistant. I noticed other users on this forum using it, then I installed on a Sol-Ark installation a few weeks ago. It's excellent, gives you Grafana charts, allows inverter setting changes, home assistant integration, etc...

Looks great. Solar Assistant is not free but it's pretty cheap and includes pre-configured grafana: https://solar-assistant.io/

Hi Guys, Sol-Ark is basically exactly the same inverter as Deye and SunSynk, its just different branding/marketing. You can get real time monitoring with this product: https://solar-assistant.io/ I doubt that Sol-Ark has modbus over TCP because I haven't seen that option in solar assistant...

I think there are many now. Some of these links could be helpful: https://diysolarforum.com/threads/sol-ark-needs-a-serious-change.27144/page-12#post-349029 https://solar-assistant.io/explore/solark#hero https://solar-assistant.io/help/configuration/sunsynk

If your inverter is reading your battery via the RS485 then yes a splitter won't work for you. Even if the inverter is just set to read from RS485 and you connect SolarAssistant to the port it can't read from it. That leaves you with only one monitoring port, the WiFi/RS232 port. Some of the...

I've used many different solar monitoring solutions including ICC. I would recommend solar assistant. Works great from android/iphone too. https://solar-assistant.io/

With a protocol such as modbus each device has an address. The read command always contains the address to read from so even if all the devices receive the message, only one will respond. If you look at the JBD read command it doesn't contain a way to specify from which device you want to...

I believe the RS485 can be used to read the inverter, as long as your manual describes it as a parallel or expansion port instead of the BMS port. It should probably work with PV Keeper and/or SolarAssistant. https://www.ginverter.com/list-20-2.html

Regardless of the UPS, you said you use a "wall wart" 5V AC power adapter. You didn't have any risk of 32V to begin with. This thread has been discussed problems people could have in general, but don't apply to your original question/scenario.

As far as I know all easun inverters are voltronic inverters, but looking at the easun downloads page I see watchpower is listed under most inverters, but not all of them: http://easunpower.cn/Download/ If watchpower doesn't work with your inverter, then I doubt solar assistant, solpiplog...

Hi Guys SolarAssistant is by far the best monitoring I have found for MPP Solar inverters. Unfortunately not free but pretty cheap: https://solar-assistant.io/explore/mpp-solar https://diysolarforum.com/threads/solar-assistant-data-logger.21099/

Hi Joe, what exactly do you mean with "have to make SD card bootable before unpacking Solar assist file"? Did it first not boot? and how did you fix it

I have 2x PIP-5048MG with 3x Pylontech US3000. I'm very happy with my setup but if I bought today it would be one of the newer ones like the PIP-MAX or one that has 0ms transfer time with lithium BMS connection support.

If you already run solar assistant then getting your data into home assistant is easy: https://solar-assistant.io/help/integration/home-assistant

@lekeola Which inverter are you monitoring with it?

Yes I still use the inverter CAN port to connect the battery BMS. This is the solar assistant settings pages: If you want to use both the WiFi dongle with Powerview and SolarAssistant at the same time, then you need to connect solar assistant via the RS485 port instead of the WiFi/RS232...

Hi Darren, a friend of mine emailed them and they offered a trial license. Then we tried it again for another setup and they gave another trial license. I suggest you mail them, the email is at the bottom of their website.

Do you keep a laptop permanently plugged into the inverter to collect statistics over time with PVKeeper? Or do you go and plug it in when you want to view the inverter, then it has history data?

There are a few other options available. Not sure if will work for Heltec comms:

I can answer this one: 5) I converted from ICC to solar assistant and everything basically worked out of the box. Was overall a better experience: https://solar-assistant.io/

It asks for username/password. If something doesn't look right in the app I would just email them. Found them pretty responsive in the past

Not completely... I had a pretty legendary Home Assistant inverter monitoring setup with Grafana. For remote access I couldn't do port forwarding due to ISP limitations. I tried the official remote access for Home Assistant called nabu casa which worked great but after trial it's $5 per month. I...

Solar assistant also supports victron BMV with similar power grid/battery switching as ICC: https://solar-assistant.io/help/power-management/axpert

Similar experience for me with solar assistant: https://solar-assistant.io

Posting what solar assistant looks like as an alternative to ICC for interest sake: http://solar-assistant.io/

Another option: https://solar-assistant.io/

I used ICC previously and converted to solar assistant. Quite an improvement... https://solar-assistant.io/