Solis Integration for Gen 3 Data Logging Stick (S3-WIFI-ST)

Third party integrations
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Hello, I’ve recently had a new solar PV system installed with a Ginlong Solis RHI-6K-48ES inverter.
The data logging stick included is a newer Solis WiFi Data Logging Stick model no. S3-WIFI-ST.
Currently my system statistics are accessible through the soliscloud.com website. However, this is slow (5-min update) and I would much prefer to pull the information directly into homeassistant locally. While there is an API (also slow), I don’t believe Solis are interested in providing access to end users.

Existing integrations and workarounds for local communication and control of the Solis inverters are based around the Solarman-based Solis DLS-W Data Logging Stick. These do not appear to work for the new stick.

S3-WIFI-ST is using a different chip MXCHIP EMW3080-E vs the Hi-Flying HF-A11 on the Solarman stick. The S3 stick can also be differentiated externally by 3 LEDs for status.

Has anyone been able to make the new data logging stick work with local communication?

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Also stuck on this. I have a GitHub issue logged for the solar man integration to accept alphanumeric serial numbers, if it is indeed that simple

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It isn’t that simple unfortunately.

The S3-WIFI-ST does not expose a local port for querying like the DLS-W does.

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I see. Will explore the adapter and modbus solution

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This is working well with a spare Pi Zero W and a £5 adapter from Amazon:

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Please see my Github page, there you’ll find:

  • a script to read the statistics from the Ginlong Solis S3 WiFi stick via HTTP.
  • how to completely replace the Solis S3 WiFi stick firmware with an ESPhome alternative.
  • a solution based on the ESP8266 to read out all the inverter data via ModBus.
  • more technical details.
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Hi,
Thanks for providing this script. It helped me replacing the firmware of my S3-WIFI-SF to ESPHome firmware. I was also able to successfully integrate it with home assistant.

However, I was wondering which of the entities should be used in Home Assistant’s energy dashboard?

It provides several energy-entities (today, last month, this month). But I don’t think this is what is needed.

Then there is “Active Power” and “Total DC output power”. They have similar (but different) values. I don’t understand the difference between them? And I guess I need an Riemann sum integral sensor to convert the right one to Energy, right?