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ESP32 | Omniksol Solar PV to MQTT Gateway

Last year I have replaced the Soladin 600 inverter for one made by Omniksol. The Omniksol has the option to monitor it using a WiFi module and an online portal made by Omniksol. But if you manage to get a 602 series WiFi module there is the option to read the stats directly from the module on TCP port 8899. In real-time, that is without using the Omniksol online portal.

This works by sending it a magic message like {0x68, 0x02, 0x40, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16} but this has to be personalised to the inverters serial number.

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RS485 | Soladin 600

soladin600A few years back I bought a small PV Solar system. Only 3 230Wp panels and a Soladin 600 inverter. I installed the system myself on the shed using Ubbink Consoles. These consoles are really nice. They are lightweight, so easy to get to the roof and rock solid once weighed down with some 30x30cm concrete tiles.

soladin-schemaThe Soladin 600 has a serial port available but it is in an RJ12 form package. Interfacing is super easy thanks to the Soladin Arduino library. Just add two resistors and the hardware side is sorted.

I had a JeeNode lying around and with the addition of an MX485 IC, the connection to the RS485 bus was also sorted. A few lines of code later and the PV data from the Soladin Inverter was transmitting on a 10-second interval on the RS485 bus.

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