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.
Nice! one thing I saw you do with the 6548 and I did that on mine as well is to use the victron shunt with a VE direct cable to display state of charge with mix matched battery brands or generic batteries to. See SOC broadcasted on SA I’m hoping that is still the case with the 6000xp? Can you confirm? Thanks again!!
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?
@@AdamDeLayDIY 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.
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 ruclips.net/video/ZzkWqQPdSNY/видео.html
@@AdamDeLayDIY 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).
Good day I'm having problem with the amount of watts coming in. I have 8 panels 400 watts each on a 2.5 mm cable and the inverter only shows 75 watts coming into the inverter
@AdamDeLayDIY I'm not running it with a battery at the moment I'm from belize so the battery will be arriving next week but I was told it can be used without battery for the meantime
@@jose-p2q1u Just an FYI, even though it can be done, the manual does recommend against it. Since you don't have any battery hooked up, the inverter will only pull PV necessary for the loads attempted to be run. It won't pull any more than that because it doesn't have any place to put the excess power.
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?
I was under the Impression that once you load SA to a Rasp and connected it to an Inverter ( I have an MPP 24 volt unit) that you could not use it on another Inv. ? I would like to move up to 48volt with this EG4 6000.... can I still use my old SA software and rasp for this new Inverter? BDW .. thanks for all your very Informative video's.. long time follower... appreciate what you do
@@mikeq5664 you can change the devices that reconverted to solar assistant whenever you want. The only thing your limited on is moving your solar assistant install to another raspberry pi. I believe your limited to 1 license move before you have to pay for another license. Glad it’s helpful to someone! Thanks!
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.
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?
Thanks for the video! I followed for the EG4 12000XP we just got, and it works great with Solar Assistant!
@@BenPVEnergy glad it helped!
WOW!
I was just thinking about how to hook up mine. Thanks!
Glad to be able to help!
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.
Thanks for looking into using Solar Assistant on LuxPower equipment. I hope you have a chance to test the LuxPower 12K or the EG4 18KPV.
No problem!
Hard to say. I know I can’t afford one just to test it.
It does indeed work for the 18kpv!🤘
Awesome!
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… 😁
@@AdamDeLayDIY Excellent, I can hook it to my Batrium then haha. Thanks!
@@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.
Nice! one thing I saw you do with the 6548 and I did that on mine as well is to use the victron shunt with a VE direct cable to display state of charge with mix matched battery brands or generic batteries to. See SOC broadcasted on SA I’m hoping that is still the case with the 6000xp? Can you confirm? Thanks again!!
Yeah you can still use the Victron shunt for your battery data while using the 6000XP for your inverter and PV data.
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
Thanks TJ! It’s nice not having to mess with wires. I can have SA plugged in on the other side of the room now.
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?
@@daddio7249 you need to select both on the config page. On a mobile device you should be able to just select multiple or add multiple dongles.
@@AdamDeLayDIY 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.
@@daddio7249 interesting. There has to be some way to get two to connect at the same time.
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
ruclips.net/video/ZzkWqQPdSNY/видео.html
@@AdamDeLayDIY 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).
Good day I'm having problem with the amount of watts coming in. I have 8 panels 400 watts each on a 2.5 mm cable and the inverter only shows 75 watts coming into the inverter
@@jose-p2q1u what’s your battery SOC at?
@AdamDeLayDIY I'm not running it with a battery at the moment I'm from belize so the battery will be arriving next week but I was told it can be used without battery for the meantime
@@jose-p2q1u Just an FYI, even though it can be done, the manual does recommend against it.
Since you don't have any battery hooked up, the inverter will only pull PV necessary for the loads attempted to be run. It won't pull any more than that because it doesn't have any place to put the excess power.
@@AdamDeLayDIY OK cheif thanks for the help I did manage to figure it out working great now
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?
@@joshjuzwik4787 thanks! Not that I’m aware of. I’m guessing it’s not the newer “inverter” JK bms?
@@AdamDeLayDIY I don’t think so, it has a three wire rs485 connection, but apparently not all rs485 devices can speak directly to other rs485 devices.
I was under the Impression that once you load SA to a Rasp and connected it to an Inverter ( I have an MPP 24 volt unit) that you could not use it on another Inv. ? I would like to move up to 48volt with this EG4 6000.... can I still use my old SA software and rasp for this new Inverter? BDW .. thanks for all your very Informative video's.. long time follower... appreciate what you do
@@mikeq5664 you can change the devices that reconverted to solar assistant whenever you want. The only thing your limited on is moving your solar assistant install to another raspberry pi. I believe your limited to 1 license move before you have to pay for another license.
Glad it’s helpful to someone! Thanks!
If you have SA set up can you still go back and use the EG4 app too? For example, use the Quick charge option on the EG4 app and then open the SA app?
Yep. They both just use the same data from the inverter.
Are you on the latest version? I had to update and I have information under the power settings.
I don’t think I was at the time of the video. I noticed there was an update when I was editing and then I saw additional settings. Thanks!
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.
Struggling to get SA to see my 6000xp. Did it take a while for the search to discover it?
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?
@@AdamDeLayDIY yeah same network... tried manual and automatic. No luck yet. I'll keep poking around. Thanks!
@@CarstenDressler hmm, yeah doesn’t make much sense. Let me know if you find out what’s up…
@@AdamDeLayDIY i got it. Unplugged the dongle, waited a few seconds, plugged it back in and it started to work!
@@CarstenDressler that’s awesome! I’ll have to remember that if I hear anyone have the same issue. Congrats!
Nice!
Got my Solar Assistant going with both of my 6000XP's right over the dongles WiFi. What I like about SA is the near real time info.
Yeah, I love having all the real time data!