Not detected by Sunny Portal/Sunny Home Manager 2.0 about sma-emeter-simulator HOT 14 OPEN

Hi,

I tested the simulator against an SMA Tripower inverter, as I do not have an SHM. It is tricky

• There is a great smartphone app "Energy Meter". It is available for iOS, I do know about Android. The app will show you any SMA emeter broadcasting measurements on your local wifi network
• My inverter does only show new devices after disconnecting and reconnecting the network cable. Can you try to do this with the SHM network cable
• Does the output of the simulator look good, i.e. it is sending out packets via the expected network interfaces of your PC?
• Are the generating PC and the SHM residing on the same IPv4 subnet?
• Does the multicast packet reach the SHM physically? I mean, if you disconnect the Ethernet cable from the SHM and plug it into a PC, will the PC see the packets? Using Wireshark or the Speedwire-Router executable from my github repository?
• If not, try to disable the IGMP functionality of any switch or router in-between. I had issues with my TP-Link ethernet switch and had to disable the IGMP functionality.

Best regards

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Thank you for the suggestion about the iPhone app.

One problem I had is that the time in the emeter packets was always 0. localhost.getUnixEpochTimeInMs() wasn't working for me, on a Raspberry Pi with the default OS. I used some other code to get the time and now it's working. If you're interested, this worked:

emeter_packet.setTime((uint32_t)std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(std::chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count());

Another thing is that I was mistaken about where I should add the virtual emeter to Sunny Portal. I thought it would show up as a separate device but it doesn't. I had to add it to the SHM2.0 as a PV meter through the SHM2.0's own settings.

Thanks for your help, I'm thinking about publishing the project to Github as well. It allowed me to use an older SMA inverter (that uses the SMA Com Gateway) on Sunny Portal. I just need to clean up a bit first I'm afraid. It's a shame SMA itself doesn't support this.

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@FrederikVds I am also trying to get an unsupported inverter into the sunny portal. Would you mind sharing the solution you came up with in a little more detail?

I am very interested :)

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Thanks also from me for sharing this project! Works great on Win OS! On a PI with Buster it only send messages to LocalHost:

address: 127.0.0.1 prefixlength: 8 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00 name: "lo"
address: 192.168.x.y prefixlength: 24 mac: B8:24:CW:CF:0E:56 name: "eth0"
..
..
INFO: main: broadcast sma emeter packet to 239.12.255.254:9522 (via interface 127.0.1.1)

Any idea how to fix the issue?

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yes, only send out to 127.0.1.1! eth0 is missing in localIPs.

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Another thing is that I was mistaken about where I should add the virtual emeter to Sunny Portal. I thought it would show up as a separate device but it doesn't. I had to add it to the SHM2.0 as a PV meter through the SHM2.0's own settings.

@FrederikVds
How did you add it to the SHM2.0 in the settings? I don't find this.

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@sfranzis In Sunny Portal, in Device Overview, go to the Sunny Home Manager properties. It's at the bottom under Meter Configuration.

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@Algram Sorry, I've been very busy lately.

I uploaded my application here: https://github.com/FrederikVds/smacomgw2shmtwo

I didn't have time to check whether it still contains things specific to my network. I hope it's useful to you.

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@FrederikVds Tank you, found it. But then SHM2 ignores the data from my inverters.
Wow SMA, highly sophisticated software design. 🙈

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Hi @FrederikVds ,

would you mind to Share your Development with me?
I was Not Abel to find ist in your repository…

My Target would be to integrate an 3kW Party Inverter into my SMA-System, Boy emulating a SMA Inverter.

I uploaded my application here: https://github.com/FrederikVds/smacomgw2shmtwo

Thank you and Nest regards Michael

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