SolisCloud PoS

[fastbike]

The Solis Cloud app / web page really is a PoS.

Yesterday I could set a charge time slot that included:
- time span (check)
- charge current (check)
- threshold - gone burger
WTF Solis.
Does anybody test the crap that you are releasing ?

 

[kommando]

If its like the Solax one then you need to click ok after every single change, when you think you have finished reboot the inverter and then check all the changes have stuck both in settings and behaviour. Luckily my grid forming inverters are SMA Sunny Islands where the settings are local and the Solax is just acting as a PV inverter. Once I have completed all changes I disconnect from the Cloud and store all data locally. If you have Wifi anywhere in the chain the settings not being taken is worse than via a fully wired link to router.

 

[fastbike]

You're missing the point. With Solis S6, you only get to configure it via the cloud web page ! And they randomly change stuff, or maybe it is so poorly written that it fails to render all of the controls. Who knows ? It is stinking PoS that fails to meet basis function requirements. I'm hoping their is a local MQTT / API so I can disconnect it from the internet and control it locally (good luck with that).
Anyway in the last 50 mins the SoC control has reappeared in the web settings page. Go Figure.
(compare to the image above)

 

[fastbike]

It looks like this is a previously reported issue - but no resolution after 2 years !!

Thread 'SolisCloud - battery charge / discharge options disappeared from Inverter Control menu'

Sep 2, 2023

Hi all,

I'm running a Solis RAI-3K-48ES-5G inverter with two Pylontech US5000 batteries - a setup that has been running without issue since installation in February 2023.

It's connected to SolisCloud using a Solis wifi dongle and I had Inverter Control enabled soon after installation, which gives access to update most of the inverter's settings.

We are on the variable Octopus Agile tariff here in the UK so I regularly use the Charge / Discharge option (on SolisCloud under the Inverter Control -> Self-consumption menu) to set timed charging periods when electricity is cheap, free or...

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[SeaGal]

I prefer not to give all my data away to Chinese servers, so never use it (in fact don't even have their WiFi dongle thing). Just do / read everything I need to via the front screen and/or Modbus RTU data over the Solis RS485 connection.

 

[AshleyL]

Just use the Bluetooth local connection.

 

[fastbike]

I prefer not to give all my data away to Chinese servers, so never use it (in fact don't even have their WiFi dongle thing). Just do / read everything I need to via the front screen and/or Modbus RTU data over the Solis RS485 connection.

No front screen ... and haven't got around to doing the local RS485 at the moment (still wrestling with the remote meter stuff)

 

[fastbike]

Just use the Bluetooth local connection.

That will work great when I'm 10km away, apparently.

If they are going to provide equipment where the only way to configure is via a web page then there is a requirement they test the crappy web page rather than just randomly have stuff appear / disappear.