What Reddit Says About Solar Panel Apps

If you really want the highest end product and app in solar, go with Enphase.

Hi there, new owner of a 10kw system with Enphase Micro inverters. I’m currently only using their (poorly made) app. Are there other apps you use?…

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I have an eg4 6000xp and a powerwall battery and I just installed the eg4 monitor app. Its ok but needs some refinement especially the poling times for updates. I've been looking at getting a raspberry pi or orange pi and running solar assistant.

Scanifly, hands down. But requires you to have a licensed FAA pilot with their Part 107 license flying a drone at each residence assessing solar

I have an Enphase system and use the Enlighten app, but at installation they weren't able to install consumption monitors (something about SCE's…

And they provide some basic support for running the Venus OS on Raspberry Pi. Venus is really for monitoring and configuring Victron hardware (which aren’t cheap). The OPs question was about monitoring solar panels which Venus doesn’t really do (it monitors the solar charger though).

Also allows you to schedule particular ... off a charge/discharge/etc with a single click - no annoying authentication like the SolisCloud app....

Also get azimuth from compass app. Then use https://www.suncalc.org to determine time when Sun is below that elevation. Remove all PVWatts hourly entries during that time. Worked well for me to account for shading from nearby trees. Ideally want to elevation angle measurement from panel height, or h...

Solar Assistant is awesome. It's 40$, one time payment (for now) and you also need a Raspberry PI or an Orange PI 3LTS.

I spoke to a couple of SUNRUN people and they knew very little about the Enphase Enlighten app. They said I needed to contact Enphase to have their app set up; that instead, I should use the MYSUNRUN app instead.

I would say your best bet is with the Solis app, generally the inverter's proprietary app is going to be the most optimized for your equipment. ... Hmm I just tried solis cloud and solis home and they are both way behind solarman on updating ...

FYI, the app never told me my system had stopped producing electricity. You need to try to check it at least once or twice per week. I found out the hard way that I hadn't produced anything in a month, and then it took SolarEdge another two months to fix the inverter.

What is the best way to monitor your solar panels if you don't want to pay the $10 a month to SunStrong? ... Home Assistant. Sunstrong open sourced their API so you can monitor everything locally now. It's a little bit to set everything up but well worth the effort so you don't need t...

Hello, I have a GreenCell MPPT Solar Inverter (INVSOL02) 3000W 24v and it has a USB/COM port. It looks like Solar Assistant supports this device…

Videos/courses/etc are all much appreciated. ... Not an expert, but I tried Helioscope and it was fairly easy to use even for me as a noob. But I think Aurora is the gold standard ... Thanks. As I noted above, had not heard of Aurora, but will check it out ... Just updating this old thread to say th...

Solar assistant website just loads data from your device, it doesnt necessarily store it. Pretty sure they have a demo you can try it out with limited features. Have to pay to get full features. Pretty much only mainstream thing on the market unless you are good with coding and can make something yo...

I built an alternative app for Watchpower. Its called Solar Monitor and it offers fast-update time monitoring for inverters like Voltronic, Axpert, and MPP Solar.

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