Please find our attached our setup guide for the Fronius WiFi monitoring app. Please feel free to call between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday if you need assistance, alternatively, you can respond to this email with your questions.
Fronius - Solarweb setup
You will complete several steps in setting up the Fronius WiFi monitoring.
A. The first step is to use the inverter screen to turn the WiFi on.
B. Then you will Log into the inverter via a computer, phone or tablet.
C. Once logged in, you will be configuring the inverter to use your home WiFi network.
D. When your inverter is connected to the internet, you will then need to download and setup the monitoring app.
A - Inverter WiFi
To begin, become familiar with the inverter buttons:
First and Second buttons are navigation (Left, Right, Up, Down)
Third button is the Home button, which also acts at a ‘back’ button
Fourth button is the ‘enter’ button.
Turning on the inverter WiFi
1. Press the 3rd button on the inverter to reveal the picture of a house.
2. Navigate to the settings option (spanner & screwdriver) and press enter (4)
3. Navigate to the ‘access point’ option and press enter.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to turn on access point
B. Connecting your laptop to the inverter WiFi
1. Search for the Fronius 240.xxxxxx WiFi network on your laptop (This network name is also your ‘data logger ID’. Please record/photo this as you may need it in the inverter setup stage)
2. The password for the Fronius network is 12345678
Logging into the Inverter
1. Open a web browser and go to 192.168.250.181
2. You will be presented with either a wizard or a general data screen.
C. Configure your Inverter to use the local WiFi
Wizard
- You are looking for the internet via wireless option
Data screen
- On the right hand side, you will see a vertical menu… go to settings
- on the left hand side you will see another vertical menu - go to network
- look for the internet via wireless option
Connecting your WiFi
You should see a wireless network list. Select your network and press the ‘SET’ button to reveal a password box.
Once you’ve entered your password, you will need to connect (it may happen automatically)
There should be a green tick button at the top of the page. Press this to save the page settings.
Once this is done, you should be able to close the browser and log out of the Fronius WiFi.
D. Setting up your Fronius Solarweb login
You’ll need to set up a on online Fronius Solarweb account
1. Go to www.solarweb.com and in the top right of the page, click on ‘login’. Select the ‘Register’ option from the drop down list.
2. Follow the setup process. Please note the password will need to be 8 characters, have an upper case, lower case, number and special character (!@#$%^&*) for example Solar01#
3. You will be sent a confirmation email within 5 mins. Please open and click to link to finalise your account setup.
We’ve created a video to show you through the solarweb login setup process. https://youtu.be/nMEoNRG9DEw
Downloading the solar web app
There are two apps available if you’d like to monitor from your phone. Both are available from Google or Apple app stores.
1. Free - Solarweb Live
This app is fairly limited and will show you today’s live production and a simple bar chart for the past 7 days.
2. $4.99 (App Store cost) - Solarweb Pro
This app will allow you to see a full history of the system performance. You’ll be able to see detailed daily production for the entire history of the system. There are also daily, monthly and yearly reporting modes as well.
If you skip to 2:20 in this video, you’ll see a comparison of the apps and why one is better.
Log on into your app with Solarweb
Login to solarweb.com or the solarweb app. If you are using the app (phone/tablet - available from apps stores), you may default to the demo system. To log in to your account, click the picture of the house and find the settings>user option to log in.
Once you are logged in, you may already see your system present, this means that our electrician was able to get you to this stage previously.
If you are presented with a ‘setup inverter’ option, click on it and follow the prompts. Setup is generally pretty easy. On step in the setup will ask you for power in WP. This system will be your system size in Watts. i.e. if your system is 6kW, you will enter 6000.
Sharing your monitoring with GI Energy
To share your Fronius monitoring with GI Energy, you’ll need to log into your solarweb.com account and:
1. Go to the settings tab in the menu bar that contains Overview, Analysis, Energy Balance etc
2. Click on the ‘permissions’ tab that is now in the same menu bar.
3. Click on the ‘add’ button and enter monitoring@gienergy.com.au as a supervisor, then click OK.
4. Now click the ‘Profile’ tab in the menu bar and rename your system with the following format.
First name initial, Surname, Suburb. I.e J.Smith - Loganholme
If you are a commercial client, please use your business name as the PV system name.
Thank you, we should now have access to your solar monitoring system which can help us respond to questions or diagnose issues more effectively.