> Not the installer, not the monitoring app, not the utility. I found out from an electric bill that made no sense, then spent weeks digging through the monitoring portal by hand.
It would help if you could clarify what your system does, exactly, that is better than the notifications and low production alerts in the 1st party apps
Clarifying what makes your app worth doing the auth or API key setup versus configuring the 1st party app property would make this easier to understand
This sort of stuff is why I just pay a utility to provide my electricity. I don't want to have to manage, monitor, or worry about what my solar panels are doing.
This captures one repeating idea I've had throughout my life. Where are the benefits of "specialisation" going?
Every corporation now has me doing all the little jobs they used to employ someone specifically to do. Like book travel for instance. Now I need to be across so many different systems it's ridiculous.
Last time I needed a locksmith (broken lock) it was far cheaper (cost 30%) AND faster(!) to simply order the parts and figure out the jigsaw puzzle myself in an hour.
Most of the time I only have a qualified electrician do minor stuff around the house because legally I have to. For the harder things, I want the electrician though.
And now for some reason it is cheaper for every house hold(!) to become it's own electricity farm then for a society wide specialist organisation do things at scale?
> Solar breaks quietly. Panels don't make a sound when they stop earning.
Solar if anything is something that doesn't "silently break", you literally stop getting electricity. Everyone I know with solar has it front and center how much their batteries currently have charged, if the batteries are suddenly 0% and never increases, how wouldn't people notice?
This seems to be for something like you have a bunch of solar panels on a property/land where you don't visit at all, and you use it for solar panels and you only sell the electricity. But the website seems to be marketed towards individuals, not to companies.
I've never seen someone with only solar, basically everyone is still connected to the grid, so you don't stop getting electricity, you just start getting a bill.
If you look at your solar stats or battery stats every day, then yeah you'll notice sooner. But most people don't. Most of the apps for these things suck anyway.
I think this makes perfect sense for people with solar who aren't obsessed with it.
Midnight Solar,the true OG in solar hardware and software has had remote monitoring for more than a decade, perhaps two, and even promote some outside apps for there hardware. And my baddy abused system has been working with essentialy zero down time for 15 years, and no faults or glitches, other than the above mentioned abuse ie:thats not a humm I have been hearing, it's sizzling, amazing what good hardware will survive!
It would help if you could clarify what your system does, exactly, that is better than the notifications and low production alerts in the 1st party apps
The Enphase app can send you texts, emails, and push alerts for low productions or different errors https://support.enphase.com/s/article/how-to-change-the-noti...
Clarifying what makes your app worth doing the auth or API key setup versus configuring the 1st party app property would make this easier to understand
Every corporation now has me doing all the little jobs they used to employ someone specifically to do. Like book travel for instance. Now I need to be across so many different systems it's ridiculous.
Last time I needed a locksmith (broken lock) it was far cheaper (cost 30%) AND faster(!) to simply order the parts and figure out the jigsaw puzzle myself in an hour.
Most of the time I only have a qualified electrician do minor stuff around the house because legally I have to. For the harder things, I want the electrician though.
And now for some reason it is cheaper for every house hold(!) to become it's own electricity farm then for a society wide specialist organisation do things at scale?
How are we failing so hard?
Solar if anything is something that doesn't "silently break", you literally stop getting electricity. Everyone I know with solar has it front and center how much their batteries currently have charged, if the batteries are suddenly 0% and never increases, how wouldn't people notice?
This seems to be for something like you have a bunch of solar panels on a property/land where you don't visit at all, and you use it for solar panels and you only sell the electricity. But the website seems to be marketed towards individuals, not to companies.
Maybe I just misunderstand who this is for?
If you look at your solar stats or battery stats every day, then yeah you'll notice sooner. But most people don't. Most of the apps for these things suck anyway.
I think this makes perfect sense for people with solar who aren't obsessed with it.