Solar Assistant update caused grid usage to go negative

[Crowz]

Updated to the latest beta this morning and solar assistant flip the grid usage to negative. The battery had run down early this morning so the srne clone/sungold inverter had switched to bypass using grid power to power the loads while the batteries charged. After doing the update the 1600 watts being used from the grid flipped to showing -1600 watts which would mean it was exporting 1600 watts to the grid in place of using 1600 which is what it was actually doing.

I rolled it back to the previous version and it fixed it. Just wanted to warn folks.

Version 2025-04-29 was the messed up one.

Version 2025-04-04 is the one I rolled back to that works right.

 

[Madcodger]

I rolled it back to the previous version and it fixed it. Just wanted to warn folks.

But you did let the SA folks know about this problem in the beta, of course. Right?

 

[Crowz]

But you did let the SA folks know about this problem in the beta, of course. Right?

You mean the customary email that never gets answered? Yep

 

[Madcodger]

You mean the customary email that never gets answered? Yep

Ouch! I've only had to contact them once, and they got back to me. But hey, at least you did your part. Good on ya!

 

[Tulex]

That update says it supports reverting. Is it a new feature that makes it easy?
Interesting, I'm not seeing that an update is available the usual way, I had to click on the version I have to see the update.

 

[Crowz]

That update says it supports reverting. Is it a new feature that makes it easy?
Interesting, I'm not seeing that an update is available the usual way, I had to click on the version I have to see the update.

Reverting was just a click away by picking the version I wanted from the list.

 

[Tulex]

Updated, didn't see that issue.
Set to zero export, solar was around 250w short of covering load, grid showed the difference.

 

[Dave911]

Updated, didn't see that issue.
Set to zero export, solar was around 250w short of covering load, grid showed the difference.

So you are doing mixed load?
Any issues popping up with grid backfeed?

 

[Tulex]

For those wondering about reverting, below is what it now looks like for updates (after updating).

 

[Tulex]

So you are doing mixed load?
Any issues popping up with grid backfeed?

Energy pattern set to load first. My batteries had not reached low enough to stop discharging, so I temporarily raised the limit to above battery level. Everything looked fine. Solar was covering what it could, grid covered the rest. You can see the blip for the short time I tested it, the current draw is from the 20w trickle it's set to.

 

[Crowz]

Updated, didn't see that issue.
Set to zero export, solar was around 250w short of covering load, grid showed the difference.

This was on the sungold/srne clone 10kw. The beta lists "srne changes".

 

[Tulex]

This was on the sungold/srne clone 10kw. The beta lists "srne changes".

Which is fine, I was simply commenting that it wasn't an across the board issue.

 

[ceo4eva]

Updated to the latest beta this morning and solar assistant flip the grid usage to negative. The battery had run down early this morning so the srne clone/sungold inverter had switched to bypass using grid power to power the loads while the batteries charged. After doing the update the 1600 watts being used from the grid flipped to showing -1600 watts which would mean it was exporting 1600 watts to the grid in place of using 1600 which is what it was actually doing.

I rolled it back to the previous version and it fixed it. Just wanted to warn folks.

Version 2025-04-29 was the messed up one.

Version 2025-04-04 is the one I rolled back to that works right.

Just to confirm, this is a reporting error and it's not really happening right? I noticed that what would be my consumption was showing as export. My export value is high while my consumption is 0

 

[Crowz]

Just to confirm, this is a reporting error and it's not really happening right? I noticed that what would be my consumption was showing as export. My export value is high while my consumption is 0

Yep just a reporting error on mine. Nothing actually is changed at all. Basically it just swaps from a positive to a negative on the number its reporting. When I went to the previous version it just swapped the number back to the correct amount.

Victron shunt never changed the numbers reported while this was going on.