Hello,
I have a this setup:
We have 18 x 300W panels on our roof. We have 430A of battery power (8 x Crown SLA batts)
During the winter I’d love to do the following:
1) hardwire my Huawei Smart Hub Wi-Fi router and my Accurite weather hub directly to battery bank to be able to see the weather at our cabin.
2) we also have an Wi-Fi Ecobee (t-stat) controlled propane wall heater which when the inverter is on I can turn on remotely and heat cabin prior to our arrival.
The problem is that our inverter draws 30W of power just to stay on and it happens during Nov-Feb where we don’t get enough solar to prevent batts from dropping below minimum SOC… so I have to turn inverter off which means I lose power to router and other wifi enabled things like weather station and wall heater.
I can figure out how to hardwire the router and weather hub but I can’t seem to figure out how to set up my inverter so that it can be controlled (on/off) remotely via a wifi enabled switch because inverter doesn’t plug into anything… so wifi plug won’t work!
Sorry for the long winded post. In short, does anyone have any guidance or brilliant ideas on how I can control the power of my inverter remotely using wifi?
Thank you!
I have a this setup:
Magnum Single MS2812 w/ Classic 200
Unbound Solar MS2812 Single Magnum w/ Classic 200 Power Center
unboundsolar.com
During the winter I’d love to do the following:
1) hardwire my Huawei Smart Hub Wi-Fi router and my Accurite weather hub directly to battery bank to be able to see the weather at our cabin.
2) we also have an Wi-Fi Ecobee (t-stat) controlled propane wall heater which when the inverter is on I can turn on remotely and heat cabin prior to our arrival.
The problem is that our inverter draws 30W of power just to stay on and it happens during Nov-Feb where we don’t get enough solar to prevent batts from dropping below minimum SOC… so I have to turn inverter off which means I lose power to router and other wifi enabled things like weather station and wall heater.
I can figure out how to hardwire the router and weather hub but I can’t seem to figure out how to set up my inverter so that it can be controlled (on/off) remotely via a wifi enabled switch because inverter doesn’t plug into anything… so wifi plug won’t work!
Sorry for the long winded post. In short, does anyone have any guidance or brilliant ideas on how I can control the power of my inverter remotely using wifi?
Thank you!