Virtual PV inverter is not displayed as Solar tab under installation data in the VRM portal

Hello everyone,

I have created a virtual PV inverter in Node-Red, which is also displayed in the Venus device overview and in the VRM portal. I can also see the curves under advanced in the VRM portal. ```

/StatusCode is set to 7=Running

Unfortunately, the solar yield is not displayed under Installation data → System overview /Solar on the VRM dashboard.

Any ideas?

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Same issue here. I tried to ditch my deye python script in favor of this new official way … and ended up not seeing the device on the vrm dashboard.
I see the details in the remote console and the advanced page on vrm though.

Problem solved :wink:

Not only values for the individual phases (here single-phase), but also the totals of the phases must be defined as output node, then the “Solar” field appears again in the dashboard.

Note on firmware 3.60

Not every deploy really implements all changes, often an additional reboot was required to ensure that the changes were actually active.

In addition, the set grid setpoint in ESS was suddenly no longer correct and it was set to a completely different value

After deleting a virtual device and recreating it, it worked as expected

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Hi, I was missing the status property! It has to be set to 7!

Now I can see my Deye Inverter in the dashboard correctly. Although - as before - it has a fronius logo :wink:
@Victron : maybe add a feature to add a custom logo, or don’t show it at all for unknown brands? :slight_smile:

At the beginning I had also tried it with status code = 7, but this does not seem to be necessary.

As part of the ESS troubleshooting, I removed the call status code = 7 again and it still works.

Interesting. Adding the status code was what made it work for me. Until then the device in the remote console was having the status “starting”. Maybe you only have to inject the status once?

At the beginning of my attempts, the status code was displayed in a yellow circle, now nothing is displayed at all :wink: