Awesome, I have been using solar assistant for years, first with my growatt, and now with my 18k’s in parallel, another good way of seeing real time data without solar assistant is with home assistant, which is free, and direct connection between the 18k’s and home assistant, using mosquito mqtt broker
Oh yeah! I just started messing with Home Assistant! Once you get it set up, it's great! Does take a little computer knowledge to get you started unless you can find some really good tutorials.
I read somewhere that you can't use the network dongle and the battery communications at the same time. Do you know if that's true? I'm very interested in Solar Assistant once I get mine installed ( which should be Thursday, FINALLY :D )
You can. I’ve had battery comms connected to the inverter as well as the dongle for my Solar Assistant / EG4 app connection. Haha! Have fun with the install. You’ve been a little busy… 😁
@@LithiumSolar Not a problem! I've been using the 280Ah Orient power battery for Comms on the 6k for quite a while and haven't seen any issues with the monitoring site or Solar Assistant.
thanks for another great informative video. I've also been using my SA without wires or issues for the past 6+ months on my pair of these inverters amd powerpro batteries
I have two 6000XPs but I can only connect to one at a time. I had two 6500EXs and SA showed each side by side and combined the totals. Are yours combined or separate?
@@AdamDeLay07 Problem was I needed to split the 2.4 and 5G signal from my router and I no password on it. Then I used Bluetooth to connect to each dongle and enter the SSID and password. Works great. I have the Solar Assistant device but it only connects to one inverter at a time. With the 6500EXs I had it showed both side by side and combined the outputs.
Thanks for the great video! I have a jk bms I am trying to get to communicate with my 6000xp. Can solar assistant pass battery state etc between the inverter and bms?
In my case when I tried to connect SA to the inverter, it found the proper serial number (seems to be case sensitive) on the network. Now is your SA and 6000XP on the same network? Does it connect if you manually type in the serial number?
What makes SA better then the latest EG4 web monitor or APP? Like why would you use it? Is it local LAN based, no cloud? Cause you can use the EG4 app local. Real time data? Not sure, interested to know.
The biggest difference between the EG4 Monitoring app and Solar Assistant is that Solar Assistant displays real-time data. It doesn't require refreshing to see updated data. All the processing for Solar Assistant happens locally on a Raspberry Pi (micro-computer) and that allows for the real-time monitoring. I've heard rumors that EG4 is working on a faster data refresh rate but they're concerned about bandwidth issues (which makes perfect sense). Solar Assistant does allow for data access without internet, but like you said, so does the EG4 app. I'm sure there's some settings that Solar Assistant cannot do that EG4 can. The EG4 Monitoring App and website is lightyears ahead of its previous apps for older hardware. If you don't care about real-time data and just care about the occasional glance of data and historical information, I would just stick with the EG4 monitoring app.
Can this method save each days infon/Solar yield performance etc and log the info "offline" so when I come back to the cabin in a month I can look into each day from that month
@@stifflerjj4 Yes. Solar Assistant will save all data it retrieves from the different devices that it’s connected to and gives you the ability to look back at his historical information. The raspberry pie that the solar assistant software runs off of can transmit its own Wi-Fi hotspot for local connectivity. The only thing that cannot be done without Internet is remote access. Solar Assistant Overview ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZzkWqQPdSNY.html
@@AdamDeLay07 how do I get something like this I get getting a little mini computer and all that in the video it says it goes online it's not actually an app
@@stifflerjj4 there’s links in the video to a pre-installed version of solar assistant on an orange pi. There is no dedicated app, it’s just accessing a specific page in your browser (depends on online vs offline).
