How To Set Up Online Monitoring For Your Sungrow Inverter | GEM Energy

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To set up your online monitoring you will need your smartphone/tablet, your wifi username and password and a recent electricity bill.

The first step is to download the app. From the home screen on your device, open whatever applications you download your apps from. In the search bar type in iSolarCloud. Click on the app and then press install.

Once the app is installed, open up the app. You will receive a pop up alerting you to the current service address you are on. For Australia, you will need to select the International Server unless it has already been selected. Click confirm to continue to the login screen.

We now need to register an iSolarCloud web account. Click on register.
Click on the End User option. Firstly check that the first option is selected as International Server. Then enter in your email address and select ‘Send Verification Code’.

Selecting this will then verify your email address. This may take a few minutes to come through so just be patient. If you cannot see it in your inbox check your spam folder. Open up the email and note the verification code. Return to the iSolarCoud app and type in the code.

Then continue filling out the remaining fields including a password, location and timezone. Make sure all the details are correct, accept the privacy policy and click register.

Your registration is now complete. You can now login, using your email and the password you just created. Click login, click agree and answer any popup questions that come up.

Now you are at the iSolarCloud home screen. Now we can connect to your inverter. Select create plant. Select the plant type which will be residential. Select your inverter type, in this case the system has a PV inverter. Then select your setup which will be the WLAN option.

On this screen, you will then be able to connect your inverter to see the name of your inverter which will be SG followed by a series of numbers and numbers. Go to your device Wifi settings and select your inverter.

Please note that sometimes the network connection may require a password. If so, the password is the serial number which is located on your Sungrow inverter. Select your inverter.

Once connected, return to the iSolarCloud app. You have now successfully connected your device to your inverter. Click next. Select your home WiFi. Enter your home WiFi password and press confirm. Your inverter is now connected to the internet. Click next.

Now you can connect your device back to your home Wifi. Go back to your wifi settings on your device and connect back to your home Wifi.

Return to the iSolarCloud app. Your device is now connected back to the internet. Click next. Click next again. You can change the Plant Name to whatever you like. If it hasn’t auto-filled the information then fill out the rest of the form including the country, time zone, home address and the date your system was connected to the Grid. Click Next.

Now enter the Feed-in Tariff and Consumption Tariff, both of which can be found on your recent electricity bill.

Click next. Now type in the organisation code. This code will be specific to the organisation that installed your solar system. If you are a customer of GEM Energy, please email [email protected] with your name and invoice number if you have it and we will send out the
GEM Energy code. This will allow us access to your inverter data. We then use this data to view your monitoring and troubleshoot any issues that you may have.Then click next.

Now wait while your inverter is connecting to iSolarCloud. This process can take from 5-10 minutes.

The inverter has successfully connected to the home network. Click on proceed to set up to connect your device back to your home wifi. Then return to the app. Click Complete. Return to the home screen and you should now have full access to your Sungrow iSolaCloud data.