Kostal Inverter data

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Hi,
I am currently planning to install a photovoltaic system in my house with a Kostal Plenticore inverter. I someone else here who has such a inverter and is getting some data from it?
I know solarview. This is an option, but maybe there are also other ways beside this. If you have such a converter like I am planning to install, how do you get the data into pimatic?

I created an interface to my SMA inverter by using the local SMA portal interface.
The invertor responds with json data. Normally this json data is used in a webbrowser to present data, but its also usable for a plugin.
The plugin (pimatic-sma) is reusable for other inverters that have this kind of local ‘api’.

You need to debug the investors response to get the releavnt json data fields.

I will go for it when after the convert was installed… Thx for your hint!

Hi bertreb,
can you tell me more about the configuration of your pimatic-sma plugin, please? My photovoltaic system consists of a SMA Energy Meter, a SunnyBoy SB-5000TL inverter and a SunnyIsland for energy storage. Which device IP address should I use for the device config? Using the IP of SB-5000TL gives me no values all the time. Enabling Debug gives me no messages.

Hi, the ip address of the inverter is ok.
Can you check if the plugin is loaded and active?

The plugin is loaded and active.

Device looks like this:

I found an issues with release 0.0.11, seems the package wasn’t updated.
I released version 0.0.12, that should solve that.

You have a battery installed. I could add the battery data? (if its available).
Can you see battery data on the startscreen when you go to the inverter ip?

I only came to test it today. Release 0.0.12 behaves exactly like 0.0.11, no values …
What do you mean with “startscreen when I go to the inverter ip?”

Whne you go with a browser to the inverter ip, what do you see?

And 2 remarks on the config

• your inverter must be in the same subnet as your pimatic is
• the local ip address in the config is just the numbers like 192.168.xx.yy

IPs are in the same subnet.
I am beginning to think where the problem lies. SMA inverters of the old generation, like my SunnyBoy TL5000, do not allow direct access to a web interface. They don’t have one at all. Only the newer generation of devices like Sunny Boy 3.0 … 5.0 have an integrated web server for configuration.
The devices of the old generation can only be addressed via a specific protocol and read out via third-party applications such as SBFspot.

Yes i use the web interface for the plugin.
That explains it.

If you want, I can look into the sbfspot way and see if it can be added.

That would be great!

This is a good place to start : https://www.sma.de/produkte/sma-developer.html Look for SEMP protocol

Do you have modbus on your inverter?

No, I don’t have Modbus on my inverter. The Inverter (and the battery inverter too) has an ethernet interface, called Speedwire/Webconnect module (SMA SWDM-10).

Sma speedwire has its own dhcp server and is probably on a different subnet.
Is that the case in your setup?

No, I don’t think so. I configured all the PV systems (inverter, battery inverter, energy meter, home manager) with static IPs of the same subnet (192.168.1.x) . SBFspot works with the static IP of the inverter. I will stick to this solution.