Solis Cloud app for Monitoring My Solar Generation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- As I continue with my solar journey, I take a look at the Solis Cloud app that I use to monitor my solar energy generation.
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Hi Good video, you are obviously getting on better than me with my set up 4 kw panels with 7 kw Batteries. I have had the installation for 12 months and have been plagued with the app showing wrong information I have found the solis support very slow and not very normative I did manage to speak to Travis once who spent some time and decided I needed a new datalogger this has been fitted but no difference. Trying to get battery to charge during off peak and discharge during day but no success also it is currently showing 12.6 KW export but checking on mains meter no export one day it showed 4665 KW export . I have 3 phase and I think this may be the main problem as they have not done many 3 phase
Yes I have a CT clamp providing grid import to the Solis app but for December the only complete month the CT gave 287kWh and my smart meter gave 305kWh.
The Solis app seems to calculate total demand= PV yield + from grid + batt discharge - batt charge -export to grid with some of the data as whole numbers and other to 2 decimal places.
And as PV is used this calculation includes the inverter/battery losses.
As a comparison with previous years I am using Total Demand = net export from inverter + net import from grid
I am not charging the batteries from the grid so any import measured by the generation meter is for the maintenance of the inverter/battery system.
I also have a CT clamp on the mains for grid export via a SDM120CT meter.
Just a note on times; Octopus use UTC so I've set my Inverter & iBoost to this
Hi, Great video. I am finding the Solis app appalling. Here is examples: MTD numbers do not agree with adding up the daily numbers, i.e. Self Usage on MTD is zero but I had 2kwh at least over the days. Yield for day does never agree with Generation for the day. Got Self Usage of 0.44 today between midnight and 8.00am, but no yield. So basically nothing adds up. It is a shame, and as am 200 miles away, cannot even verify if energy imported is correct. Does GlowGreen even verify if the install is working?
The Solis application and Inverters are by no means easy to monitor. I also have a solar panel system with Solis inverter + Wifi data logger. I've tried to find out what else is needed in order to be able to see the Solis application -> the yield of the solar panels, how much has been taken from the electricity grid, how much has been consumed and how much has gone back into the electricity grid (i.e. sold). For the video, 1.50 diagrams (without the battery icon). Now what I see is the information at 0.30 of the video.
I wish that besides daily, monthly and yearly I could set a date range that would match my electricity bill.
Thats one of the reasons I keep a spreadshett
Thank you. Yours is the only video or documentation I have found re what I am seeing on the Solis app. Could you record one during the day to see how the active solar panels feed the app? Thanks
I can do that, have to find a day with some sun.
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech Tx. Any thoughts on why the android app and the desktop windows cloud would show completely different numbers? eg just now my app showing consumption 0.763kw Total 3.12 cloud shows 0.032kw total 0.72? on the 'X' shaped graphic display
@@SheilaAsh are those 'real' time measurements? If they are it could be different delays between the android and desktops servers
Hello
Is there a way to set an alarm when for example your batterypack has an 75% load?
To start my system was installed on 3 November 2023 and consists of Solis 3.6kWh hybrid inverter, 4.05kW panels and 6.4kWh batteries.
It's very difficult to make any sense of the data that comes out of the Solis app because I can find no description of the internal connections of the inverter and where the various measurements are taken.
The one certainty is that total yield is measured on the dc cables (from the panels) as they connect to the inverter. The only other certainty (to my mind) is that the 'generation meter' (which is not used by the app) is connected to the AC output of the inverter. In my case it is a Emlite (EAC2nZ) meter that measures export/import/difference so I can use the net export and the total yield to calculate the loss of the inverter/battery system. On 1/1/24 the total yield (from Solis app) was 240kWh and the net output was 165.7kWh (204.6 export and 38.8kWh import) which gives a loss for 58 days of 74.3kWh or 1.28kWh/day.
This represents a loss of 30.9% which is huge, however I'm hoping that these losses are fixed so the in the summer the percentage loss will be much lower. A further point is that as the Solis app appears to use the yield figure to calculate the house demand (or load) these losses are added to the house demand, so over the year you will see your demand increase by 500kWh or more.
So going back to my first point, until we have an accurate description of where the measurements are taken and which are used in the calculations then it is going to be difficult to make any sense of the data from the app.
Do you have a CT clamp measuring your import?
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have been trying to see a video on the Solis online management system for a while but there are not many, or I am just looking in the wrong place!
Can you amend the charge times online or only at the inverter?
I could only change the time on the invert.
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech Hi, I applied for remote access from Solis which gives you a push button labelled "Invertor Control" in the window Invertor Details. This might be only on a pc. Supposedly this enables you to change invertor settings, however not worked out yet how to change charge times . If you are able please advise. Thanks
Sir, why is it that I Don't get the same overview like yours? I only have Total yield, Monthly yield, Total yield. I want a diagram like yours that I can see the power generated from my solar and from the grid..I have a solis S6 inverter.
Can you program the app for “forced” import or export times? Thinking of installing this inverter but wanting to use the Octopus Flux tariff which has excellent export rates between 4 and 7pm. Thanks for the video.
The cloud app is only for monitoring. i think Solis does a sperate app for controlling the inverter and allowing it do control the export
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech Ah, is that the separate “Remote Control” application ticket that my potential installer has spoken of?
@@rayscogings3700 its something like that. Some others that have commented on my videos have had to contact Solis to get access
Change the time on the inverter. It will be fine then.
I've worked that out since doing this video.
Over voltage setting & under voltage setting ka bhe Bata da
Mine does not show the top diagram anymore (the one that shows consumption & generation). Did a new update get rid of this? Is there a setting to display this again ?
Check out my new video about the Solis update, to see the info (all be in a less nice way) you have to look at the bar charts in the month view th-cam.com/video/BuAcJUtNYv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=L4DGWlzs4sE-9JsU
I use this app but I can't view the solar produce and the grid commercial. How can I overview ?
Hi, there are a few things you can check. First does the display on the inverter show the the solar coming in and the import and export to the grid on the diagram. If not then it worth checking the T camp on the export/important in installed correctly. If the inverter is showing everything correctly then there may be a problem with the data logger set up. If you still can't find the problem it might be worth contacting Solis.
Should both dc channels show same volts? One shows 230, other 0.4, does this mean one string of panels is out?
If you have two strings and both are producing then they will before show voltage.
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech I think one string is out as only shows 0.3volts.
Trying to get installer out but slow to come. Is there any easy reset option, or could it be cables lose?
@@alexmerrick6419 it DONT think it would be cable lose, as you would still get the voltage but low current. The cable could be damaged, the solar panels could be faulty or the inverter may have issue on that string input. You'll need an installed to diagnose
I’m having trouble with the tariff. It’s shows my earnings as outlandish 7€ /kWh. Can the app be set to follow the current prices?
If you going in the info tab there is a option there for tariff management, in that you can set you rate.
Does anyone know on the webpage how to input your cellphone number? It keeps saying invalid format. I'm UK based
Have you tried putting +44 instead if first 0
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech yes, I've tried all varients I can think of!
With and without brackets, and +
cant do any of that on mine and no solar panels sign aswell
I would contact your installer.
How do you get to show the consumption within the app? I only can see power generation...
In the bottom left hand corner there is a button called 'plant' click that then select your system and its should take you to the screen that shows where the power is coming and going from in a diagram. If you look at the diagram and its not showing grid import (best to check when you know you are importing) then there might be a problem with the CT clamp
Did you manage to resolve that Damian? I think I have the same issue where if I click on the plant button and select my system it just takes me to power generation data with no information about consumption or the flow chart type diagram
@@DiscoDistin hey, samebody solve this problem? I have the same issue, on my solis cloud app I can't see comsuption. Regards
@@tomaszrossiwall5763 same here bro, i cant see any diagram
@@drchrisjbarnettgreentech same as the others below. I had panels installed yesterday and app configured but the app only shows power generation when I click into plant. Any idea what I am missing in the setup?