Solarprod

The Inverter control page, block by block

One card per connected inverter. The top of the card is what the inverter is doing right now; below it are the things you can set. Which blocks you see depends on the brand, because each maker lets us do different things.

Live status: what your inverter is doing this minute

Four numbers straight from the inverter: solar, battery power, grid and home load, in watts.

  • Grid is positive when you are importing and negative when you are exporting.
  • Refresh status asks the inverter again. The timestamp tells you how old the reading is.
  • A Disconnected badge means the maker rejected our sign-in. Reconnect from your Account page; readings that are simply zero are not a disconnection.

Resting state: what the inverter goes back to when nothing is scheduled

This is a declaration, not a live control. Changing it does not change your inverter now. It tells solarprod what to restore after a timer ends, and what floor to plan against.

  • Pick one of the three export options and a minimum battery level. The same three options appear again under Grid export; there they act now, here they are the default we return to.
  • The minimum level is the charge the battery keeps for you. Below 10% we warn, because most batteries age faster when run flat; below 5% we refuse.
  • If we worked the floor out from your layouts rather than from you, the section stays open and asks you to confirm it. Once you have confirmed, it folds down to one line.

Grid export: three ways the battery can treat the grid

These three radio buttons change the inverter as soon as you choose one. The floor in each label is the minimum level from Resting state.

  • Export down to the floor: anything surplus can flow to the grid, from the panels and from the battery, until the battery reaches the floor. On a Deye this prevents solar from charging the battery, so it sits at the floor until you change the setting.
  • If below, import up to the floor: the battery never discharges to the grid and enables solar to charge the battery. If it is under the floor it charges back up to it.
  • No exports, curtail if battery is full: nothing leaves the house. This is the setting the negative-price shield uses.
  • On a Tesla Powerwall the export rule is accepted but only takes effect if Tesla support has enabled owner export control on your site. Battery timers work regardless.

Battery reserve and grid charging: the Powerwall levers

Tesla only. Backup reserve is the percentage the Powerwall will not discharge below. Raising it above the current charge makes the Powerwall charge up to it.

  • Allow charging from the grid decides whether that top-up can come from the grid or only from solar.
  • The mode line is what the Powerwall reports it is in. Timers switch it as they need to and switch it back.
  • Other brands show their reserve as a read-only line here; the number to change is in Resting state.

Battery timers: set and forget

A timer is a window on the days you pick, a start and end time, an action, and a target. During the window solarprod drives the battery to the target, and when it ends everything goes back to your resting state.

  • Charge from grid to X%: import until the battery reaches the target, then hold there for the rest of the window.
  • Export to grid down to X%: sell the battery down to the target. For this window solarprod switches the inverter to export solar and battery, then sets it straight back. You do not touch Grid export yourself.
  • Stop exporting to the grid: the curtail action, for a window when you know export prices will be poor.
  • Times are your local time, daylight saving included. If the inverter is not linked to a layout with an address we use Australian Eastern Standard Time, and the timer card says so. The day buttons pick which days the window repeats on.
  • The list is in the order the timers will run: a running timer is on top, then the one that starts next, and so on. Timers you have switched off sit at the bottom.
  • The tick box turns a timer on and off without deleting it. Edit changes its shape; saving a timer that is running now stops it and restarts it on the new schedule within a few minutes.
  • A timer marked From your plan was written by the Action plan. You can edit it, but the next daily plan update replaces it. Timers you add yourself are left alone.
  • The negative-price shield always wins. If prices go negative in the middle of an export timer, the inverter stops exporting until they recover.
  • If an export timer starts with the battery already at or below its target, it does not run. We put your inverter back to its resting state instead, and check that the inverter has really taken the setting.
  • A charging timer stops once the battery reaches its target, so solar can take over for the rest of the window.
  • On a GoodWe inverter, a timer is a time-of-use row we add in a spare slot for that day only, at full power, and remove when it ends. We never touch your own rows. If a timer would overlap a row you have switched on, we say so and do not set it.
  • On GoodWe we switch time-of-use on for a timer if it is off, and back off afterwards, unless you have added a row of your own in the meantime.

Negative-price shield: stops exporting when you would be paying to

For Amber customers. When your feed-in price goes below zero, solarprod switches the inverter to No exports within five minutes, and switches it back the moment prices recover.

  • The line under the switch tells you the current state: protected, currently curtailed since a time, or overridden because you changed the export rule by hand during a negative window.
  • You can switch the shield off yourself at any time. Switching it on needs live Amber prices on your account.
  • The shield uses the No exports rule, so on a Tesla site it only stops the battery unless Tesla has enabled export control for you.

Time of use: the Deye table, slot by slot

Deye inverters run on a six-slot table. Each slot has a start time, a target battery level, a power limit, and whether grid charging and selling are allowed. This block shows the table as the inverter has it and lets you edit it.

  • TOU enabled is the master switch; the day buttons choose which days the table applies to.
  • Apply writes the table to the inverter. Until then your edits are only on this page.
  • While a solarprod timer is running, the table is read-only and says so, because the timer is driving it. It goes back to your own values within about five minutes of the window ending.
  • If the inverter changed while you were editing, we keep your edits and tell you. Discard them to see what the inverter has now, or apply them to overwrite it.

Your installer holds the controls: what that means

Some Deye Cloud accounts can look but not change. If yours is one, the card says so at the top, everything still reads, and every control on the page is shown but cannot be applied.

  • Ask your installer to enable control for your account. Our Deye guide has a message you can copy and send them.
  • We re-check every time the page loads, so the notice disappears by itself once they have done it.
  • You can still save a resting state while locked. It is recorded, and applied as soon as control arrives.

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