Assuming I had a Gen 2 Inverter because I have a Gen 2 battery Ive wired the Inverter to my LAN with its RJ45 socket. However I do not have a Gen 2 Inverter. So can i buy a usb adapter to enable me to hard wire the system to my network?
Simple answer is no. Gen 1 are wifi only because the dongle has some intelligence that is needed.
anglefire is correct, plus i'll add my 10 pence worth.
The only thing that should be ever connected to a Wi-Fi network is a portable equipment. All fixed equipment should be land connected. Yes I'm calling out all manufactures that do the quick fix.
were is my usb lan dongle @Givenergy for gen 1
sparky77 a sweeping statement!
My inverter and battery is in my garage - gen1 so on WiFi. Which has never been an issue (unless I changed something!) Rock solid. But I am using a decent network solution and not the usual shitty routers that come from the ISP.
I do have a wired network in the garage - but it had to go from the main switch in the lounge, up the wall into the loft where there is a second managed switch and from there back down the wall from the loft to the garage and another managed switch.
It’s not always easy to get hardwired connections to fixed devices!
anglefire Its not easy to get hardwired connections to fixed devices - and that is why most things are wireless first... "its easier". Our houses aren't designed for cat5 everywhere, never built wiht it in mind and thus no easy channels to run it internal without making a mess. Its often when people ahve walls down / renovations they use that time to fit it... and even having done that, i wish i'd put more points in even if i didn't use them.
Bah! humbug! After we moved in in 1985, I rewired the house as I decorated it. Replaced the 3 way consumer unit with a 12 way, ensured that there were a minimum of 8 mains sockets in every room and more in the kitchen yada-yada. But I didn't discover networks until the mid 90's. Now, I'm finally getting around to completely redecorating it again and the 12 port switch in the cupboard under the stairs will be replaced by a 16 port one with every port already accounted for and wires actually going to sockets, rather than sticking through holes in the floorboards.
Doesn't actually affect the inverter because that's in the workshop, which has it's own switch, LAN and WiFi AP, but it would have been nice to use the LAN instead of the WiFi. Eventually scrapped the pair of LORA units that the installers put in in favour of hard wired RS485, which actually works!
Sorry about all that, don't know what got me started. 😃
Yes it would be extremely nice and useful if the RJ45 socket on the Mk1 inverters actually had any intelligence behind it. would @Adam-Reynolds care to comment?
mrand31 Better off retrofitting with fibre in some older houses. By that I mean run a high bandwidth (10Gbps & up) fibre link between switches and break it out to GigE from there. Used to be too expensive to do but its probably comparable to chasing/drilling/routing cables etc now.
Vestas I've actually got some GBICs to run fibre between the house and the workshop, but I need to pull the fibres through the pipes I laid under the back garden which currently host 4 Cat5E cables. Hopefully without pulling the ends off the fibres...
mrand31 Other option if you've got 4 cables running there already is to LAG them and break out to multiple GigE ports from there. That'd give you 4Gbps overall bandwidth between house and workshop.
anglefire yes the Wi-Fi indeed works, BUT
really, no WPA3 or mixed on today's devices.
maybe on a 10 yr old device but i 2024
i only say this as my apple device states POOR SECURITY on Wi-Fi connection with the 10yr old security WPA
and YES i stick with the portable devices are only for Wi-Fi only and Fixed equipment for Lan only
you would not run you cooker, fridge etc on batteries, no you would plug them into the mains
Just finished a Solar install, customer requested internet, At least Growatt does a USB to LAN adpator.
come on @Givenergy @Adam-Reynolds get it sorted.
sparky77
Been using mine flawlessly for 9m now. Highly recommend Grott for comms with the inverter.
https://github.com/johanmeijer/grott
I run mine in Docker.
I guess the Cems box would be the solution for hardwired Gen 1?