The Growatt wifi dongle alternative
If you have a Growatt inverter and the dongle and had issues, then it is likely that you have seen our posts and videos on our replacement. If not you can find it here: Growatt Shinex Replacement — RenewSolar
The replacement has had a update to a smaller black box enclosure as well as some more software tweaks, still as easy to install, still has better range and still retains the local web service and Mqtt integration as well as Json to make this a very flexible option for most solar users.
The new enclosure reduces the size of the unit to around 1/4 the size and it can be stuck to a wall or surface to get the best position for connection. IMO it now looks a little odd as the antenna is longer that the box by a few inches.
We also have the display. The display connects to the replacement and displays some stats this is smaller than the new box making the display around 1/3. These are light weight and the only thing that could be big would be the power supply, this simply plugs into a USB power supply.
We are offering the display “with options” so you can have what data you want on screen, the default shows the daily power produced, the current wattage and a 3 hour graph of the power output.
You can have some additional display “pages” but it can be a compromise of one or another.
for example you may want daily total, export and power loads with battery status and temperatures.
its worth being mindful that the web page services from the main replacement unit will display all the data in any event, the display is only to make a small easy to view portable unit.
We also have the NODE.
The node is the top bit of kit, it combines it all and data storage, we are still developing this stand alone computer system for monitoring your inverter and displaying data on the full colour 3.5 inch touch screen. This has been a ground up project but we are making things smaller.
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