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@batpred Ok. So you didn't login to the dongle at all, just made the router allocated IP address static in the router settings? I have g...
@batpred I've had a bit of time to look into this today. I have tried to get connected to the dongle via a data cable to manually change the IP a...
@editor That's not my experience Mars. British Gas sent out an engineer to do our survey. They'd started their BG career 25 years ago on the tools....
@stevettweed When I started my journey with BG in October they didn't give me an online quote, perhaps that is a new thing. After the survey (on ...
@stevettweed Try British Gas. For me they were by far the most thorough, professional and flexible company ( even compared to Heat Geek). They'll...
@majordennisbloodnok Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised that the Solis dongle itself has an in-built network port hidden under the screw...
@batpred Thanks. Hardware wise, you just used a standard network cable from the dongle to a router/switch? We have a mesh wifi box right next to ...
@batpred Thanks. Well I didn't know the Solis dongle had an RJ45 port. I've just noticed the base cap and upon unscrewing it there is the RJ45 port...
@majordennisbloodnok This sounds like it could be a similar project to getting data from our soon to be installed Daikin HP! In an ideal...
@batpred Well that sounds positive. When you say modbus sensors, what does that mean? How did you set this up, what equipment did you bu...
@majordennisbloodnok Yes polling is the issue with Solis inverters, they only do it every 5 minutes. I (like a lot of Solis owners) was ...
@batpred Cell voltage is of no value, it doesn't provide any meaningful information as it won't show when the inverter hits its discharge ...
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