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Home assistant Component for reading data locally from Solaredge inverter through modbus TCP
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Changing "storage control mode" changes display mode in solaredge app (not a bug) #83

Open ministryofsillywalks opened 2 years ago

ministryofsillywalks commented 2 years ago

Not a bug from this integration but something that caused me a lot of headache so I thought I'd comment here in case anyone else has this problem.

When changing the solaredge "storage control mode" from the normal mode of "maximize self consumption" (MSC) to anything else like remote control mode so as to disable the battery during ev charging (as described in the wiki) the solaredge app on android and ios changes the display to a simpler version, not showing the detailed usage split between battery, import and direct pv usage. (see the attached screenshots) Normal Display:

"Broken" Display:

I wrote solaredge support about this and they said this:

I consulted some people in our QA, R&D and product team, currently, when taking the system out of MSC, the displayed is changed to the one you saw and it is set back when the MSC is set again.
Here is the answer from R&D and product:
“He changed the settings in a way that the site is not considered MSC. That’s why he lost the data (this is the current non-MSC display).
If he set it back to MSC properly then the data should appear for future days.
”
The product team set a development request and they are preparing the requirements to R&D so that the display will be kept.

I have no idea why they would disable detailed statistics in the app when changing away from maximize self consumption. They seem to also agree that this shouldn't be the case and started working to fix it but he also said it would be more of a long term change.

quinten94b commented 2 years ago

@ministryofsillywalks Did you get this resolved? This happend to me also when trying to self optimize my system.

I have my battery for 4 days now, yesterday at 1pm I set it to remote control -> default maximize self consumption and it did the same. since 12PM yesterday and today are the same as yours. Does it come back. And more importantly, does the month and year overview go back to normal? Or does it stay like this for the rest of the year?

For some reason I also lost the self consumption linegraph (blue graph) of the last days/months/years, it does show the percentages of self consumption on the bar graphs but not the line graphs.

This is something SolarEdge should fix and I will get in touch with them also.

Added: The app worked fine yesterday from 1pm to 12 pm, it was only shortly after midnight that it decided to change the view of yesterday and today. So maybe a workaround would be to make sure it's in self consumption around midnight?

ministryofsillywalks commented 2 years ago

Sorry I only got back to this now. I have since switched to using evcc.io for my charging needs. But this does the same, sending the solaredge inverter to remote control. However after it switches back to msc the statistics fix themselves. As long as it spends some time in msc mode it seems like the view updates itself. Also check this comment in the evcc repo: https://github.com/evcc-io/evcc/discussions/3314#discussioncomment-2684692