Overview
This is a daemon that will listen on a port for connections from a Ginlong Solar Inverter. Currently tested with a Solis 4G Mini Single Phase Inverter (Solis-mini-1500-4G)
Many thanks go to Graham0 and his script for an older version. https://github.com/graham0/ginlong-wifi
Details
The Solis solar inverters come with the option for wired or wireless monitoring 'sticks'. These are designed to talk to their own portal at http://www.ginlongmonitoring.com/ where the stats will gather. This software allows you to run your own gatherer on a server and push these stats into an MQTT queue for use in other systems such as the OpenHAB home automation software.
You will need a system running python with the following modules:
- paho.mqtt.publish
- socket
- binascii
- time
- sys
- string
You will also need a running MQTT server.
Setup
- Log into the monitoring device, and configure the second IP option to point to the server that this daemon is running on. (Daemon defaults to port 9999)
- Make sure that the MQTT settings are correct in the daemon.
- Start the daemon
- Add the following to your OpenHAB items (Replace XXXXXXXXXX with the serial number of your inverter)
// Environmentals
Number Solis_Temp "Temperature [%.2f °C]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/Temp:state:default" }
// DC
Number Solis_DC1Volt "DC Volts [%.2f V]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/Vpv1:state:default" }
Number Solis_DC1Amp "DC Current [%.2f A]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/Ipv1:state:default" }
// AC
Number Solis_AC1Volt "AC Volts [%.2f V]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/Vac1:state:default" }
Number Solis_AC1Amp "AC Current [%.2f A]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/Iac1:state:default" }
// Stats
Number Solis_kWhToday "kWh today [%.2f kWh]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/kwhtoday:state:default" }
Number Solis_kWhTotal "kWh total [%.2f kWh]" (Solis) { mqtt="<[mymosquitto:ginlong/XXXXXXXXXX/kwhtotal:state:default" }
- These items should now be accessible in your rules. If you have influxdb and grafana set up, you should also be able to start producing graphs