What firmware version are you on?
Mine seems to be ok, did you do an update - how can we compare?
My firmware version
Yes it seems they udpated it. There was some issues with my inverter and we logged a ticket. They did some remote upgrades yesterday. This made the firmware to 3.008.10 . This might have caused this. They shouldn’t have removed the Modbus Intergartion entities from their upgrade.Not sure why they did it.
@wills106 - Hi Will , First of all thanks for sharing your wonderful integartion with HA community. Your integaration was working well with my X1-Hybrid-G4 unit till yesterday. But a firmware upgrade happend and the integration now returns only 4 entities . (There used to have access to almost 180+ enitites) . Any idea why this is happening?
Regards
Manu
Which 4 do you have left?
Also - you do realise you can’t use the Modbus and the local REST at the same time right?
I was using both without any issues for last 2.5 weeks.
I couldn’t use both together. Have you tried pressing “Unlock Inverter”?
Yes mate tried . No Luck.
Similar issue here - I’d follow this thread : https://community.home-assistant.io/t/universal-solar-inverter-over-modbus-rs485-tcp-custom-component-growatt-sofar-solax-solis/140143/1062
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I think in that case, it’s something to do with HA upgarde I did yesterday. I too updated my Home assisstant to 2023.3.6 yesterday. This might be causing the issue?
I had the same issue this week. Try removing the WiFi stick, count to ten and re-connect. Give it a minute and refresh the integration. Brought all my entities back and has been solid since (3 days so far).
Note, if you’ve not fixed your IP address then you may need to set the new IP in the config 
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Firstly Great Thread, I’m new (1 week old to HA) and so have been digesting all the documents, downloading & editing elements that I don’t need. I have got it basically working with Cloud and Local data, with my X1-Hybrid G4 - 5.0-D with Pocket WIFI 3.0.
I have 2 PV strings, PV1 covering East Roof (10 Panels = 4.15 kWp) and PV2 covering West Roof (8 panels = 3.32 kWp). Does the local or Cloud Outputs break out the values of the different strings ?
I did originally buy a RS485 to Ethernet adapter, but having got it working with the Pocket WIFI is there any advantage to using it, vs WIFI or should I send it back ?
Thanks all for your support and guidance. Successfully integrated Solax into my HA dashboard:blush:
. This is how my HA looks now.
Hi
That looks great, where did you get the 2 different pv array sensor codes?
Also what is the battery gauge you are using please?
Thanks
Hi,
If you use the Solax Modbus integration you should be able to access almost every single entity from the inverter. I have shared the details about it in a previous comment in this same thread. For battery, I am using this custom HACS card, flex-horseshoe-card.
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Hey Andrew, I was wondering whether you have tried forced discharge yet via HA since this post?
Hi Nick
Yes, I’ve used work mode and manual mode to cause the inverter to force discharge the battery.
I’m controlling solax using a node js application, rather than home assistant, but I assume the same settings will also work with HA.
Andrew
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Hello all
Please accept this as a newbie non-tech person and apologies if this question is too silly.
I have just had solax inverter and solax batteries installed and want to find better ways to charge and dis-charge batteries so I can make full use of solar and also smooth my grid output as I have a DNO restriction applied.
I think home assistant seems to be the way to go but I really have NO idea how or where to even begin.
Is there anywhere that does a dummies guide to all this ?
Thanks in advance
Has anyone had any issues connecting to the inverter with a Pocket LanV2.0
My wifi is too iffy to use successfully so fitted a Pocket Lan 2.0 as the inverter is next to my comms cabinet.
It has picked up an DHCP IP address, but it looks as though no ports are open. I cannot connect to it via IP… the API works fine (and the solax cloud website) and I can see the few bits of info it displays, but not having any luck with the scripts or the HACS integration…
I really do want to use the automation to change the charge levels…
so I guess the question is… does either work with a pocket lan 2.0 or do I need to involve Solax support ?