Ghost Inverter at night in VRM Portal

Hi all,

we have an interesting Problem with one of our installations. At night, a ghost PV inverter can be seen in the VRM portal. It happens every night.

The PV inverter shuts down completely when there is no solar production. In all other installations, the inverter disappears from the DBUS and the “PV Inverter” tile disappears from the VRM portal until the inverter starts producing again the next morning.

In the “Ghost” case it disappears from the DBUS but something is still shown in the portal.

Of course I did check if there are any other inverter device in VRM Portal. There are no. I did also check the settings.xml to see if there are any other inverters. Also no.

The attached screenshot is from end of April 22:09 local time. And there was definately no solar production.

Does anyone have ssen this bevor? Any help is welcome.

Looking forward to your suggestions.

Christian

LOL The first thing that popped up in my mind was: Holger! Aka Balkonkraftwerk mit Batteriespeicher?

Hi,

Seems like Halloween came early for your site! Would you have the installation url for me, so I can have a look?

Hi Barbara,

here you go: VRM Portal - Victron Energy

Hi ChiefSolar,

its not a Balkonkraftwerk mit Batteriespeicher. We did do this kind of Installations with simulated PV Inverters in DBUS and do not have this problem. :wink:

Haha. Clearly meant as a little joke😉 But I’m sure that it’ll be resolved soon.

I think today it is ok, right? Looking at your solar card on the dashboard, it reported solar during the day, then kept quiet during nighttime.

It is never ok during nighttime. During the day is fine. But when the sun is going down and the inverter stops producing you will still see some production and the card is still there. You can compare the behaviour for exmaple with VRM Portal - Victron Energy or VRM Portal - Victron Energy. These two installations are exactly the same setup.

Hi,

did you change something in the Portal for the “Ghost Inverter” installation? At the moment it looks like this in the portal.

Thanks
Christian

Is there any chance to get support?