gui-v1: Add a setting for systems that do have an energy meter installed, but no loads in between that energy meter and the inverter/charger system, that allows the installer to hide the corresponding box on the overview (see screenshot below). Same will be added to gui-v2 soon.
This is a good idea, but why is the remaining box in the second screenshot now titled ‘AC Loads’ ?
As i understand this change, the box ‘AC Loads’ should disappear and the outgoing connection from the inverter should be titled ‘Critical Loads’ as before, so you can better see that this output is protected by the inverter(s)
When you are using the multi with loads on both sides, the ac out loads are called “critical”, because they are supplied with backup power (in a traditional setup that’s not your whole home, but essential stuff, heating, freezer, some lights, hence “critical”)
Hower, most people do not seperate and hook up everything to ac out.
Hence there is no more need to call it critical loads - it’s simply all loads existing.
So, sounds reasonable to change the display name then, but i wouldn’t even mind if that box would be called “Where your power goes”
The presentation of the AC- or Protected-Loads is at least in the right place, but why was a PV inverter, which is connected to the AC-In, suddenly drawn to a “non-existent input” of the Multi?
How are two PV inverters displayed if one is connected to AC-In and the other to AC-Out?
What is the advantage of the new presentation of the PV inverters? For the moment, I can only see disadvantages in that incorrect (symbolic) presentation.
However, making it work properly for all conditions is quite the challenge, and we’re changing all development focus on gui-v2. So we might just leave it at this.
I am not affected by this problem myself. When asked about the gui-V2, I am sorry to say that I do not welcome the solution of displaying the PV inverters connected to AC-in and AC-out together. The same applies to the joint display of the AC loads and the critical loads.
This is perfectly ok for an overview page, but a detailed presentation should reflect the actual conditions in the system. The “running pellets” thus degenerate into a gimmick with no informative value. (The flow direction at AC-out would be reversed by a correctly drawn PV inverter at AC-out)
I am also aware that the space on the display is limited and you have to weigh up carefully which things are shown in detail and which are generalized/summarized.
Personally, however, I would not give the battery and the multi so much space and instead show all the individual components of the system at their correct place/connection.
Hi again, yes - I understand. But from our perspective the number of system types to cater for when trying to male the UI match the actual system is endless; and has cost a lot of time already.
So we’ve decided to explore keeping it a bit simpler in gui-v2. Production on the left, conversion and storage in the center, loads on the right.
Critical loads split is coming back by the way (!).
