guzman_goav
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- Mar 20, 2022
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hi. a bit of background, i have been running a 5 Kw, 15*325Watt panels with a 5kw phocos any-grid inverter because my old "sofar solar" was a purely grid tied while this gives me the added benefit of being off-grid without batteries. so, when the grid is down, inverter keeps running the home as long as its sunshine.
this works but there is no monitoring. there is a stupid bluetooth app but it does not record anything and the inverter is in my attic so i cant just wait in there everyday to get the readings.
i have attempted to buy a rs-232 to USB cable and plugged that into a raspberry pi hoping i could read the serial data from there and put it in home-assistant but so far nothing.
i have tried multiple baud rates, other nonsense i tried to search for online but i get no data.
i asked a friend to try t reverse engineer the android app that maybe we could see what protocol or what data stream the serial data is getting but i am told its encrypted in the app so that is a bummer too..
my question to the community with anyone who owns a phocos device, how do you go about monitoring? i hear there is a windows desktop app but i am on linux and wine does not work with this app and i got no data anyways so i am stuck.
i could not find any datasheet or any documentation on rs-232 protocol on www.phocos.com website.
phocos has one any-cloud option but that requires a separate package and it is a cloud subscription which is not fun. i would rather pay once to get data into my home-assistant.
any help would be appreciated
this works but there is no monitoring. there is a stupid bluetooth app but it does not record anything and the inverter is in my attic so i cant just wait in there everyday to get the readings.
i have attempted to buy a rs-232 to USB cable and plugged that into a raspberry pi hoping i could read the serial data from there and put it in home-assistant but so far nothing.
i have tried multiple baud rates, other nonsense i tried to search for online but i get no data.
i asked a friend to try t reverse engineer the android app that maybe we could see what protocol or what data stream the serial data is getting but i am told its encrypted in the app so that is a bummer too..
my question to the community with anyone who owns a phocos device, how do you go about monitoring? i hear there is a windows desktop app but i am on linux and wine does not work with this app and i got no data anyways so i am stuck.
i could not find any datasheet or any documentation on rs-232 protocol on www.phocos.com website.
phocos has one any-cloud option but that requires a separate package and it is a cloud subscription which is not fun. i would rather pay once to get data into my home-assistant.
any help would be appreciated