Solar Assistant and Starlink?

[tomlos]

I am looking to move beyond WatchPower for monitoring my SP6548 (it's not great, but it's OK to get started with) and I beyond in tech myself, I am super interested in Solar Assistant. I emailed Solar Assistant to get some questions answered, and wanted to verify they have no issues working with Starlink, to which they said

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Please note that Starlink work off static I.P addresses, and unfortunately the device gets it's I.P address via DHCP. Setting a static I.P address is on our wish list.
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huh? The raspberry pi should pull DHCP from the starlink router itself, get an internal address, and I'm assuming, they are talking about remote access? I can always use a dynamic dns service on the raspberry pi and just access it that way.

Regardless, anyone using Solar Assistant remotely with Starlink?

 

[Crowz]

It will work fine with starlink. The pi running sa can do dhcp or have a static ip so no issues with starlink for the internet side.

 

[tomlos]

It will work fine with starlink. The pi running sa can do dhcp or have a static ip so no issues with starlink for the internet side.

Exactly what I was thinking.. Thanks!

I just discovered Dessmonitor, which btw, the web interface is fantastic..albeit not live updating like maybe SA, but this is a fantastic upgrade to watch power..

 

[Crowz]

Exactly what I was thinking.. Thanks!

I just discovered Dessmonitor, which btw, the web interface is fantastic..albeit not live updating like maybe SA, but this is a fantastic upgrade to watch power..

I looked at it just now and other than the cute animated icons it doesn't seem much different the SA info wise and isn't as fast update wise like you mentioned.