pvbc error, not working.??? newbie please help

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Hi All,
Firstly apologies as Im very new to the world of solar!. 
I have a sunnyboy 2000hf inverter which I can connect to via BT using sunny 
explorer on my pc.

Today I have registered at pvoutput.org and downloaded the pvbeancounter 
software. I have followed all the instructions and cant get the system to 
upload my pvoutput to pvoutput.org.

Looking in the pvservice file there is an error that for the life of me I cant 
figure out (extract below) and was wondering if anyone can point me in the 
right direction?. Im using the system on a fresh win7 32bit machine and also 
using ms access (jet2007) as the db

pvservice and settings files attached. 

sorry for the long post hope someone can assist

many thanks
Chriso

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mnoblegr...@bigpond.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 9:03

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Thank you Dennis forb your prompt reply. 

Tomorrow i will start fresh and reinstall PVBC along with Sunny Explorer. I 
will also use the SQLite option you suggested. 

Just to double check once I have PVBC installed and configured I also need to 
run sunny explorer as well and does it matter if I do this before or after I 
press "start service" in your software?.. also do I need to make any config 
changes to Sunny Explorer?... Im having trouble getting my head around how your 
software obtains the data from sunny explorer. Once I press start service is 
their anything else i need to be doing?...

Thank you again Ill let you know tomorrow how I go :)

Thanks
Chris

Original comment by mnoblegr...@bigpond.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 9:29

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You don't need to run Sunny Explorer after starting the service. It just needs 
to be installed to the normal location. On your system I expect this to be:

C:\Program Files\SMA\Sunny Explorer\SunnyExplorer.exe

You do need to run Sunny Explorer to create the initial SunnyExplorer.sx2 file. 
Read the Sunny Explorer instructions and the PVBC instructions. You need to use 
Sunny Explorerer to create the SunnyExplorer.sx2 file so that it knows how to 
communicate with the inverter. 

Dennis M-F

Original comment by DennisMackayFisher on 31 Aug 2011 at 10:04

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I will be out of town on 1/9 and 2/9.  I will be available again on 3/9. 
Remember creating the SunnyExplorer.sx2 file using Sunny Explorer is the action 
that most frequently causes setup issues. The name of the file 
"SunnyExplorer".sx2 is derrived from the "Plant Name" you enter in Sunny 
Explorer. So set the Plant Name to SunnyExplorer

If double clicking the SunnyExplorer.sx2 file opens Sunny Explorer at the 
password / login screen and "0000" is the user password, the file is probably 
setup correctly.

Good Luck

Dennis M-F

Original comment by DennisMackayFisher on 31 Aug 2011 at 10:57

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Thank you Dennis, Ill let you know how it goes! Im more confident now thanks 
again.

Original comment by mnoblegr...@bigpond.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 12:32

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Hi Dennis, your a star! thanks heaps I have got it working :) many thanks chris

Original comment by mnoblegr...@bigpond.com on 1 Sep 2011 at 6:11

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Good News

Join why not join the PV Bean Counter team at pvoutput

Dennis M-F

Original comment by DennisMackayFisher on 3 Sep 2011 at 10:08

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