Hi All,
While reading through the documentation for the Powerview website, I saw there was some documentation about alternative gateways (see screencap)
The "Goldfinch" product appears to be the same as the Sol-Ark Wifi/Ethernet Dongle. There is a documentation page about integrating with Powerview.
There is also a product called Lark (e-manager/e-manager-pro), that appears to be a more capable, alternative, gateway device. There is a slight amount of documentation on the Powerview site about the device. On the lark product page on e-linter, Sol-Ark is mentioned as a compatible device. I cannot find any information about pricing or purchase availability of this device.
I am curious about this device because I am one of the people that cannot monitor my deployment with something like SolarAssistant given that my battery system is Fortress Power eFlex based. To do closed loop BMS with the sol-ark-12k-p inverter to my battery, the inverter must be set to speak in the Fortress Power protocol (BMS setting 04), and when that is set no inverter telemetry is sent through the CANBus/RS485 port.
My install is new and I would like to keep Powerview for a while longer while I get my bearings. So I, like many other people, am stuck with the choice of 5 min granularity telemetry (and potential security issues) or losing my closed-loop BMS with the Fortress eFLEX batteries (or, more generally, giving up something in my existing system to be able to use more granular HW monitoring like SA).
I am wondering if anyone has tried these alternate gateways? Or if anyone has seen anything about them at all? My hope is that something like this can provide more options for hw monitoring like SA (by providing more ports, or by exposing the telemetry on the serial port).
While reading through the documentation for the Powerview website, I saw there was some documentation about alternative gateways (see screencap)
The "Goldfinch" product appears to be the same as the Sol-Ark Wifi/Ethernet Dongle. There is a documentation page about integrating with Powerview.
There is also a product called Lark (e-manager/e-manager-pro), that appears to be a more capable, alternative, gateway device. There is a slight amount of documentation on the Powerview site about the device. On the lark product page on e-linter, Sol-Ark is mentioned as a compatible device. I cannot find any information about pricing or purchase availability of this device.
I am curious about this device because I am one of the people that cannot monitor my deployment with something like SolarAssistant given that my battery system is Fortress Power eFlex based. To do closed loop BMS with the sol-ark-12k-p inverter to my battery, the inverter must be set to speak in the Fortress Power protocol (BMS setting 04), and when that is set no inverter telemetry is sent through the CANBus/RS485 port.
My install is new and I would like to keep Powerview for a while longer while I get my bearings. So I, like many other people, am stuck with the choice of 5 min granularity telemetry (and potential security issues) or losing my closed-loop BMS with the Fortress eFLEX batteries (or, more generally, giving up something in my existing system to be able to use more granular HW monitoring like SA).
I am wondering if anyone has tried these alternate gateways? Or if anyone has seen anything about them at all? My hope is that something like this can provide more options for hw monitoring like SA (by providing more ports, or by exposing the telemetry on the serial port).