Update

[lexin]

I have been having trouble with my Solar Panels - not with the panels themselves, which are fine, but with the inverter and the datalogger, both of which were disconnected when Plusnet (my ISP) issued me with a new router, thus meaning that the name and password changed, and I didn't know how to alter them on the inverter and the datalogger.

Tonight, I went to bed worrying about it, and have got up at 4am, determined to fix the issues.

Reader, I found a description of what to do supplied by the manufacturer. I followed the instructions (which nobody would have worked out from first principles) and it now all works. How long it will work is another question, but in the short term at least, go me!

Comments

[stranger]

Ooh, yes! Go you!

[lexin]

Thank you!

[watervole]

I'm impressed!

I'm not sure I'd have managed to figure it out...

[lexin]

Thank you! I wasn't sure at 04:00 if I was capable of working out what had gone wrong.

[kotturinn]

Oh, interesting. Are yours connected to the router by Wi-fi?

I have a variant of that problem. Inverters (for light/shadow reasons I have per-panel inverters) talk directly to their gateway/logger but since the last router change that no longer talks to the remote site that collates/displays the data. Inverters and their gateway are Enecsys who, of course no longer exist and and the Enecsys gateway device is connected to the router via ethernet. I suspect a mix of reasons including the remote site to which it is meant to send the data, especially as my last subscription payment wasn't collected... But at the moment I can't be arsed to do in-depth investigations - I can see from the Enecsys gateway that all panels are communicating OK with that, and from my solar meter that my weekly manual readings are in line with all previous.

[lexin]

Yes, my inverter and datalogger are connected by WiFi, but it didn't occur to me when I changed my router that I needed to update the details. Then when it did, it was a complete mare's nest to sort it out.

[kotturinn]

Guessing your installation is newer than mine. I shall continue to ignore my problem I think!

[lyorn]

Go you! Not only reading the manual but making stuff work that way is impressive!

[lexin]

Thank you!