[RE-wrenches] Solar Assistant and Midnite AIO

[Kirpal Khalsa]

Does the Solar Assistant work with Outback gear?

Kirpal

On Thu, May 15, 2025, 9:21 AM William Bryce via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> 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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