Cannot connect to ShineWiFi-X

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Hello,
Not sure if the procedure for WiFi is different from the LAN version (seen in the example that the LAN model is mentioned), but with default ports 80 and 443 I cannot access the data logger. Is there another way to access the web interface?

My invertor: MID 20KTL3-X1 (set in grott.ini config as tl3). Datalogger: ShineWiFi-X, firmware: 3.1.0.5

Thanks

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Seems that for this model you can do it via the web on https://server.growatt.com -> data logger -> settings and you can set the IP of the grott machine. Works now :)

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

@shocker2 - Thanks for the self-solve. If you're able/willing to share some screen grabs I'll update the documentation to reflect this.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Is it this?

If it is then I'm totally changing all the documentation for that?

Although, you can't change the update interval from there which is a shame. I'm sure I've got some details somewhere on how to change the update interval for other types of systems.

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Yes, it's that one.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Found it.... What about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=muppet3000

That's the way I've seen people be able to change the update interval.

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Also, I can see that for TL3 there are only two phases shown in home assistant. I have added in the growatt.ini includeall = True, I'm waiting for the update.

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Found it.... What about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=muppet3000

That's the way I've seen people be able to change the update interval.

interesting, I'll check when I'm back home and let you know

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Only two phases unfortunatly

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Checked the log now and all phases are present, but in homeassistant I only have pv1 and pv2. Deleted the grott and re-added, same values. @muppet3000 any idea?

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

ok, create a new ticket for that one. I bet it's just that for my system that I based it on I didn't have those values. In the new ticket can you highlight the specific values that are missing and what grott publishes them as? I bet they're available in MQTT I just need to pull them out in the Integration.

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

ok, create a new ticket for that one. I bet it's just that for my system that I based it on I didn't have those values. In the new ticket can you highlight the specific values that are missing and what grott publishes them as? I bet they're available in MQTT I just need to pull them out in the Integration.

done

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

also to get all values for tl3 I have added in the config the following:

invtype=tl3
includeall = True

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Found it.... What about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=muppet3000 That's the way I've seen people be able to change the update interval.

interesting, I'll check when I'm back home and let you know

Did you ever get around to testing this? I'm hoping to update the documentation for people with the Wifi Sticks to have this info.

shocker2 commented 1 year ago

Found it.... What about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=muppet3000 That's the way I've seen people be able to change the update interval.

interesting, I'll check when I'm back home and let you know

Did you ever get around to testing this? I'm hoping to update the documentation for people with the Wifi Sticks to have this info.

Not yet as I'm not at home and for this I need to physically be near the device :). I'll try it out in the next couple of days and I'll let you know.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Found it.... What about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=muppet3000 That's the way I've seen people be able to change the update interval.

interesting, I'll check when I'm back home and let you know

Did you ever get around to testing this? I'm hoping to update the documentation for people with the Wifi Sticks to have this info.

Not yet as I'm not at home and for this I need to physically be near the device :). I'll try it out in the next couple of days and I'll let you know.

No problem at all, just wanted to check I hadn't missed an update that was all. No hurry. Thanks for the help.

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Yes, it's that one.

I attempted this today. IP Address all updated successfully (you need tot set the KEY value on my model otherwise the IP will not update, the key value is: growatt[yyyy][mm][dd] (got this from another site) I have Grott server running on the IP I set. Data is coming through still to Growatt Website. But I cannot see any MQTT messages being published to my MQTT Server

Not sure what I am missing

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Have you remembered to enable MQTT mode in Grott? This is my config: (The 'ip' is the hostname of the container that I'm running MQTT in)

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Have you remembered to enable MQTT mode in Grott? This is my config: (The 'ip' is the hostname of the container that I'm running MQTT in)

Yeah, I have that setup.

_MQTT: nomqtt False mqttip: 192.168.1.xx mqttport: 1883 mqtttopic: energy/growatt mqttmtopic: False mqttmtopicname: energy/meter mqttinverterintopic: False mqtttretain: False mqtttauth: False mqttuser: mqtt_user mqttpsw: secret

I just shutdown the Grott server, and data is still coming into the Growatt website - I guess me updating the IP address has not taken effect (I did restart the dongle).

Device Type：ShineWiFi-X Firmware Version：3.1.0.2

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Have you remembered to enable MQTT mode in Grott? This is my config: (The 'ip' is the hostname of the container that I'm running MQTT in)

Yeah, I have that setup.

_MQTT: nomqtt False mqttip: 192.168.1.xx mqttport: 1883 mqtttopic: energy/growatt mqttmtopic: False mqttmtopicname: energy/meter mqttinverterintopic: False mqtttretain: False mqtttauth: False mqttuser: mqtt_user mqttpsw: secret

I just shutdown the Grott server, and data is still coming into the Growatt website - I guess me updating the IP address has not taken effect (I did restart the dongle).

Device Type：ShineWiFi-X Firmware Version：3.1.0.2

Yeah if the change hasn't been pushed to the dongle/wifi stick then grott won't be receiving anything. Grott has pretty verbose logging so you should be able to see the output when there's content going in.

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Yeah if the change hasn't been pushed to the dongle/wifi stick then grott won't be receiving anything. Grott has pretty verbose logging so you should be able to see the output when there's content going in.

Thanks - yeah I can see logs in Grott if I test it via a browser... but nothing else at all. Ah well, may need to reset my dongle into AP Mode and apply the IP address change there.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Yeah if the change hasn't been pushed to the dongle/wifi stick then grott won't be receiving anything. Grott has pretty verbose logging so you should be able to see the output when there's content going in.

Thanks - yeah I can see logs in Grott if I test it via a browser... but nothing else at all. Ah well, may need to reset my dongle into AP Mode and apply the IP address change there.

I'm not sure what you're testing via a browser, can you explain? You need to use the IP of the machine running grott in the configuration of the wifi stick (apologies if this sounds patronising, just trying to be clear).

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Yeah if the change hasn't been pushed to the dongle/wifi stick then grott won't be receiving anything. Grott has pretty verbose logging so you should be able to see the output when there's content going in.

Thanks - yeah I can see logs in Grott if I test it via a browser... but nothing else at all. Ah well, may need to reset my dongle into AP Mode and apply the IP address change there.

I'm not sure what you're testing via a browser, can you explain? You need to use the IP of the machine running grott in the configuration of the wifi stick (apologies if this sounds patronising, just trying to be clear).

When I say testing via browser, I am just hitting my grott server IP on port 5279 in the browser. This simply generates an incorrect message, but at least proves my Grott server is running ok and generates my first log message.

And yes of course, I have my Grott server IP specified in the wifi stick - I imagine the Growatt web interface is not setting it correctly (perhaps) and I probably just need to use AP mode - something I'll try another time as the only way to access that is resetting the stick.

Aad3229 commented 1 year ago

Can I leave the "Set domain" unchanged? If I change the IP in the datalogger to my Grott server, if I ever want to revert this and not use Grott anymore, what IP do I put in the "Set IP" to have the data sent directly to Growatt again? Or do I just leave this blank to have the data being sent to Growatt again?

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

You can set it back to server.growatt.com There's a discussion on 'reverting to stock for a non-tech' over here if you're interested: https://github.com/muppet3000/homeassistant-grott/issues/4

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

I managed to eventually get it working using this suggestion: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/growatt-server-integration-interval/207840/9?u=j4ce

It took a few goes but eventually it seems to be working. Data is still going to Growatt servers, and I can see Grott is receiving and pushing MQTT msgs now. Yay.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

That's good to hear @J4CE2

Note - This still makes use of the Growatt servers so, when they go down your data feed will stop. I'm currently experimenting with grottserver to see how it behaves with the Growatt Servers out of the loop.

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for that. Only small issue I have now is that last update time appears to be 7 hours behind (time zone??)

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

Are you running grott or MQTT in docker? Remember to set the "environment" to include a TZ value, (looking at my config I did it just for grott (not for MQTT):

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

Are you running grott or MQTT in docker? Remember to set the "environment" to include a TZ value, (looking at my config I did it just for grott (not for MQTT):

Not using docker for MQTT or grott. Both servers appear to have the correct timezone and times set.

muppet3000 commented 1 year ago

@J4CE2 - Did you work out what the issue was in the end? Have you looked in the logs from Grott at all?

J4CE2 commented 1 year ago

@J4CE2 - Did you work out what the issue was in the end? Have you looked in the logs from Grott at all?

@muppet3000 actually Grott appears to be applying an offset for date/time value for some reason. I raised an issue here https://github.com/johanmeijer/grott/issues/428

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