Sunny WebBox and Sunny Portal - SMA - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: TonyVov
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 06, 2017, 07:24:21 am
content: Dear communityI would like to discuss with anyone who has experience on using the SMA Sunny webbox and in particular if it can be viewed on Sunny Portal or similar online site??I am working with a school who has an installed PV system from SMA. All the installers are "disappeared" and we don;t know how to use what we have properly.I can access the WebBox and all settings and have downloaded a few hundred documents from SMA website.It is producing about 7kWh nicely every daylight hour but we are not able to monitor or measure our efficiency of use due to lack of knowledge.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 06, 2017, 07:55:41 am
content: I don't know about the Webbox, but I have a Sunnyboy 3000TL with Bluetooth and I export my data onto PVoutput.org, and there are various software tools for thathttps://pvoutput.org/list.jsp?userid=22501

author: TonyVov
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 08, 2017, 05:19:07 pm
content: Thanks for your feedback - gives me a new option to look at for either history or even live tracking.Our system uses 3 x sunny island Controller (yellow Boxes) , 3 x Sunny Inverter (Red Boxes) hooked up with a battery storage all talking to this webBox in a 3 -phase setup.The people who installed it have all disappeared - we get power, we get this file of 90 parameters but are struggling to work out what the parameters mean. The manuals are not that helpful as the terms are not well defined. (or I didn't find the right book)Our local technicians are abusing somewhat the battery side due to manual switching and difficult monitoring and we seem to lose power at each passing cloud so I suspect we have some tuning to do.Appreciate the suggested logging site. TonyV

author: dekra54
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 08, 2017, 05:49:07 pm
content: HelloSetting up the SunnyWebBox with SunnyPortal is fairly easy. You just have to register herehttps://www.sunnyportal.com/Account/Register.If you have successfully registered you go to WebBox > Settings > Data trans. . There you enter a Name for the PV-System ( This is also the Name in SunnyPortal)and the E-mail adress which you used for registering in SunnyPortal.Then wait a few minutes and the Plant should show up Online in SunnyPortal.If youre just interested what you can do in SunnyPortal send me a PM an i give you access to a demo Plant.Greetings DennisEdit:http://files.sma.de/dl/4253/SWebBox-BA-US-en-34.pdfEnglish Manual for the WebBox. At page 47 Setup SunnyPortal

author: TonyVov
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 12, 2017, 02:24:52 am
content: Dennis - thanks for your good feedback - actually I am closing in on target - our system is already registered under the name of a now non-existant person.I have raised a "ticket" with SMA to try to get back control and access , in the meantime I would love to followup on your offer of access to a viewable plant for training myself up.I will see if I can workout how to PM in this system.Many thanks for the info.TonyVov

author: dekra54
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 12, 2017, 06:26:36 pm
content: If the WebBox is already registered to one Account you have to change the plantidentifier (Just alter the last 3 or 4 digits). Otherwise you can not register it to a new account.