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weertske
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Topics: 2 / Replies: 15
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl I can confirm that switching back to the A channel which shares the WiFi dongle works fine. I also slowed down my data polling to 60 seconds an...

1 month ago
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RE: Where is GridBOSS RS-485 protocol documentation?

@eg4eric Unfortunately the Internet security practiced by EG4 is insufficient (no MFA among other things) so I can't leave the dongle connected. This ...

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl I am using the green terminal also but I disconnected the wifi just to remove variables.

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl I had the dongle off when this occurred. I'll try changing my read rate from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. Thanks.

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@EG4 Eric Please review my comment to Doug and let me know if you have any insight.  

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl I connected PPG to my 18kPV inverter and started reading the data (in ugly format) on Home Assistant. (I'll work on that later.) However, I als...

2 months ago
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RE: Where is GridBOSS RS-485 protocol documentation?

I am also looking for this information so that I can access data from both my 18kPV and my GridBOSS.

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl Thank you. For the wires coming from the screw terminals, are you connecting to something like this? Or do you have another approach?

2 months ago
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RE: EG4 Web API and Home Assistant

@dougl I just found this thread and I am hoping you can bring me part way up to speed on using PPG. I also have an 18kPV. How are you connecting t...

2 months ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

@eric That is what I have set up and all is now working fine. I got confused by this EG4 document. which shows using the RS485 port. There is too ...

1 year ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

@joel-brodeur @jlankford Thank you both. I tried RS485 and that did not work, I switched back to CAN and set the Battery brand to 1 and that did the t...

1 year ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

Bad wording on my part. The DIPs are set (011111, 101111, 001111). For now lets just ignore the 2nd and 3rd battery (I'll turn them off) and just focu...

1 year ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

I am using the battery CAN port to communicate to the 18KPV. Should I be using the RS485 port? That seems to be what they are using here.

1 year ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

Thank you. I will try that out in the morning. The second and third batteries have their DIP switches set to 2 (binary 01) and 3 (binary 11) and they ...

1 year ago
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