[RE-wrenches] Solar Assistant and Midnite AIO

[William Bryce]

I highly recommend using SA with ALL Asian inverters. This will remove the
chance of a SolArk screen of death bricking and locking you out of your
inverter, and also remove any chance of data or setting manipulation from
others.

With SA, ALL the data is served and stored on the RPie computer locally.

On the MNS AIO, you can run the Dongle and the SA at the same time.

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> I just got Solar Assistant up and running with my triple AIO site. It was
> surprisingly easy. I think I am in data heaven. This is everything I had
> hoped for from the Midnite Pro app. It consolidates all three inverters'
> instant and historical data while providing real time individual inverter
> data as well. I'm not sure if I can get the historical data per inverter,
> but that is available through the Midnite app anyway, and has little
> usefulness in a multi-inverter environment.
>
> If anyone needs tips on how to get this done, feel free to contact me off
> list.
>
> The short answer is I purchased a preloaded Solar Assistant Pi device
> directly from Solar Assistant, and three USB to RS-485 dongles from Amazon.
> I got the Pi device with the DC power supply and connected it directly to
> my battery bus so it stays on even if the inverters shut down.
>
> Jason Szumlanski
> Florida Solar Design Group
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