SMA VIEW-10 User Manual

User Manual

SUNNY VIEW

SunnyView-BA-en-13 | Version 1.3 ENGLISH

Legal Provisions SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC

Legal Provisions

The information contained in this document is the property of SMA Solar Technology AG. Publishing its content, either partially or
in full, requires the written permission of SMA Solar Technology AG. Any internal company copying of the document for the
purposes of evaluating the product or its correct implementation is allowed and does not require permission.

Declaration of Conformity

SMA Solar Technology AG hereby declares that this equipment is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant
provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC. The entire CE Declaration of Conformity can be downloaded at www.SMA-Solar.com.

SMA Warranty

You can download the current warranty conditions from the Internet at www.SMA-Solar.com.

Online services, libraries, open source licences

When using this equipment you will also be using online services from other providers. These are listed in the section "Online
services". The use of these services is governed by the current terms of use of each of the providers listed in the section "Online
services". By using the online services you also declare your agreement with the regulations listed. The use of libraries and software
provided by 3rd parties is governed in the same way as that of online services.

Online services

This software is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties and liability to correct errors are disclaimed. In no event
shall Supplier be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages or infringement of any Intellectual Property
Rights arising in any way out this software. Customer assumes all risk for the selection of this software, including risks to achieve
Customer's intended results and for the installation, use and results obtained from it. Furthermore, this software uses/may use 3rd
party services. The 3rd party service is governed under separate terms & conditions which are available at

• OpenWeatherMap: http://openweathermap.org
Customer accepts that these terms and conditions shall be applied to this software. Same applies for the use of the chosen

Newsfeed service.

Libraries

The Sunny View software uses the AChartEngine library licensed under ASL 2.0, the microlog4android library licensed under
Apache 2.0 and MIT, and the twitter4j-core-android library licensed under JSON.

Open source licences

Sun ny Vi ew is b ased on t he An droid 2.6.35. 3 ker nel an d the U-B oot 2 009.0 8 ver sion, which are l icensed under the G PLv2 Open
Source Licence. A copy of the GPLv2 Licence is provided on the included CD. You can request the source code with modifications
from the SMA Service Line. Copyright notices are integrated into the source code.

In addition, the Sunny View uses the Apache Licence 2.0 with Android 2.2 (API level 8, revision 2). A copy of the Apache Licence

2.0 is provided on the included CD.

Trademarks

All trademarks are recognized even if these are not marked separately. Missing designations do not mean that a product or brand
is not a registered trademark.

The Bluetooth
SMA Solar Technology AG is under license.

QR Code

SMA Solar Technology AG

Sonnenallee 1
34266 Niestetal
Germany
Tel. [phone]
Fax [phone]
www.SMA.de
E-mail: [e-mail]

© 2004 to 2014 SMA Solar Technology AG. All rights reserved

®

word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by

®

is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

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SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC Information for USA and Canada only

Information for USA and Canada only

Legal Provisions

Copyright © 2014 SMA America,LLC. All rights reserved.
No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form

or by any means, be it electronic, mechanical, photographic, magnetic or otherwise, without the prior
written permission of SMA America, LLC.

Neither SMA America,LLC nor SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc. makes representations, express
or implied, with respect to this documentation or any of the equipment and/or software it may
describe, including (with no limitation) any implied warranties of utility, merchantability, or fitness for
any particular purpose. All such warranties are expressly disclaimed. Neither SMA America,LLC nor
its distributors or dealers nor SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc. nor its distributors or dealers shall
be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages under any circumstances.

(The exclusion of implied warranties may not apply in all cases under some statutes, and thus the
above exclusion may not apply.)

Specifications are subject to change without notice. Every attempt has been made to make this
document complete, accurate and up-to-date. Readers are cautioned, however, that
SMAAmerica,LLC and SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc. reserve the right to make changes
without notice and shall not be responsible for any damages, including indirect, incidental or
consequential damages, caused by reliance on the material presented, including, but not limited to,
omissions, typographical errors, arithmetical errors or listing errors in the content material.

All trademarks are recognized even if these are not marked separately. Missing designations do not
mean that a product or brand is not a registered trademark.

The Bluetooth
any use of such marks by SMA America,LLC and SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc. is under
license.

®

word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and

SMA America, LLC

3801 N. Havana Street

Denver, CO 80239 U.S.A.

SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc.

2425 Matheson Blvd. E

7th Floor

Mississauga, ON L4W 5K4

Canada

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Important Safety Instructions SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC

Important Safety Instructions

SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

This manual contains important instructions for the following products:

•SUNNY VIEW

This manual must be followed during installation and maintenance.

The product is designed and tested in accordance with international safety requirements, but as with
all electrical and electronic equipment, certain precautions must be observed when installing and/or
operating the product. To reduce the risk of personal injury and to ensure the safe installation and
operation of the product, you must carefully read and follow all instructions, cautions and warnings
in this manual.

Warnings in this Document

A warning describes a hazard to equipment or personnel. It calls attention to a procedure or practice,
which, if not correctly performed or adhered to, could result in damage to or destruction of part or all
of the SMA equipment and/or other equipment connected to the SMA equipment or personal injury.

Symbol Description

DANGER indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in
death or serious injury.

WARNING indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result
in death or serious injury.

CAUTION indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result
in minor or moderate injury.

NOTICE is used to address practices not related to personal injury.

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General Warnings

Al l el ect ric al insta lla tio ns m ust be ma de i n ac cordanc e wi th the local and NationalElectrical Code®
ANSI/NFPA 70 or the Canadian Electrical Code® CSAC22.1. This document does not and is not
intended to replace any local, state, provincial, federal or national laws, regulations or codes
applicable to the installation and use of the product, including without limitation applicable
electrical safety codes. All installations must conform with the laws, regulations, codes and
standards applicable in the jurisdiction of installation. SMA assumes no responsibility for the
compliance or non-compliance with such laws or codes in connection with the installation of the
product.

The product contains no user-serviceable parts.
For all repair and maintenance, always return the unit to an authorized SMA Service Center.

Before installing or using the product, read all of the instructions, cautions, and warnings in this
manual.

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SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC Table of contents

Table of contents

1 Information on this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1 Intended Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2 Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.3 Supported Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3 Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.1 Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.2 Type Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4.1 Menu Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4.2 Operating the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

5 Home Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

5.1 Layout of the Home Slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

5.2 Header Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5.3 PV Plant Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5.3.1 Slides without SMA CT Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.3.2 Slide with SMA CT Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.4 Online Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6 Charts Menu Item. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

7 Events Menu Item. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

8 Settings Menu Item. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

8.1 Adjusting the Brightness of the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

8.2 Disabling the Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

8.3 Setting the Scaling of the Daily Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

8.4 Setting the Error Alert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

8.5 Setting the Key Clicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

8.6 Identifying the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

8.7 Setting the Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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8.8 Setting the Country Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

8.9 Setting the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

8.10 Searching for a New PV Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

8.11 Adding a New Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

8.12 Replacing a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

8.13 Changing the Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.14 What to Do in Case of a Lost PV Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.15 Changing the PV Plant Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.16 Displaying Connected Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

8.17 Setting up a WLAN Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

8.18 Checking and Setting Up a Bluetooth Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

8.19 Configuring Online Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

8.20 Changing the Duration of the Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

8.21 Selecting Photovoltaics Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

8.22 Activating Demo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

9 Maintenance and Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

9.1 Safely Removing the Micro SDHC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

9.2 Performing an Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

9.3 Restoring Factory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

9.4 Generating a Back-Up File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

9.5 Restoring Sunny View Data from a Back-up File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

10 Decommissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

10.1 Decommissioning the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

10.2 Disposing of the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

11 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

12 Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

13 Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

14 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC 1 Information on this Document

1 Information on this Document

Validity

This document is valid for device type "VIEW-10.GR1" (Sunny View).

Target Group

This document is intended for end users.

Symbols

Symbol Explanation

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death
or serious injury

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in death
or serious injury

Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, can result in minor
or moderate injury

Indicates a situation which, if not avoided, can result in property damage

Information that is important for a specific topic or goal, but is not

safety-relevant
☐ Indicates a requirement for meeting a specific goal
☑ Desired result
✖ A problem that could occur

Typographies

Typography Explanation Example
bold • Display texts

• Elements on a user interface

•Terminals

• Elements to be selected

• Elements to be entered

> • Connects several elements to be

selected

[Button/Key] • Button or key to be selected or

pressed

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• The v alue can be fou nd in
the field Energy.

• Select Settings.

• Enter the value 10 in the
field Minutes.

• Select Settings > Date.

• Select [Next].

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Nomenclature

Complete designation Designation in this document

PV plant comprising a PV array, monitoring devices and
inverters

®

SMABluetooth

Wireless Technology Bluetooth
SMA Solar Technology AG SMA
SMA America, LLC
SMA Solar Technology Canada Inc.

PV plant

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SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC 2 Security

2 Security

2.1 Intended Use

The Sunny View is a communication device that receives, displays and stores data from
SMA inverters.

The Sunny View is only suitable for indoor use.
For safety reasons, it is not permitted to modify the product or install components that are not explicitly

recommended or distributed by SMA for the product. Unauthorized modifications and installations
are not permitted and will void all warranty claims. Any use of the product other than described in the
Intended Use section does not qualify as appropriate.

The type label must remain permanently attached to the product.
The data collected by Sunny View on the amount of power generated by your PV plant may deviate

from the energy meter data. The Sunny View data must not be used for billing purposes.
Use the Sunny View only in accordance with the enclosed documentation and with the local

standards and directives. Any other application may cause personal injury or property damage.

• The Sunny View is only to be operated using the supplied plug-in power supply and in the
intended voltage range (see Section12 "Technical Data", page46).

The enclosed documentation and the documentation on the CD-ROM are an integral part
of this product. Keep the documentation in a convenient place for future reference and
observe all instructions contained therein.

Radio Frequency Exposure

This product should be installed and operated with a minimum clearance of 20 cm (8 in.) from your
body.

2.2 Safety Precautions

Magnetic components in the Sunny View can damage sensitive objects

The Sunny View contains magnetic components, e.g. loudspeakers.

• You should not place any objects which are sensitive to magnets (e.g. EC cards) on the
Sunny View.

Preventing unauthorized access

PV plants are delivered with "0000" as default password. This means that unauthorized users
can gain access to the data of the PV plant.

• Change the default plant password (see Section 8.15).

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2.3 Supported Products

SMA Inverters

• All SMA inverters with integrated Bluetooth

• SMA inverters with retrofitted SMA Bluetooth Piggy-Back/SMA Bluetooth Piggy-Back Plus from
firmware version 02.00.00.R. A list of the supported inverters can be found in the
SMA Bluetooth Piggy-Back/SMA Bluetooth Piggy-Back Plus manual.

• Sunny Backup with retrofitted SMA Bluetooth Piggy-Back Off-Grid from firmware version

01.00.00.R. A list of the supported Sunny Backups can be found in the SMA Bluetooth
Piggy-Back Off-Grid manual.

Additional SMA Products

• SMA CT Meter from firmware version 1.0*

* for Japan only

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SMA Solar Technology AG / SMA America, LLC 3 Product Description

3 Product Description

3.1 Sunny View

The Sunny View is a communication device that receives, displays and stores data from
SMA inverters. The Sunny View displays the PV plant data in the form of slides on the display.

The Sunny View can be connected to the Internet via a WLAN. If there is a connection to the Internet,
the Sunny View can display newsfeeds and meteorological data.

Figure1: Design of the Sunny View

Item Designation

ATabletop stand
B Display
CGrid connection
D Slot for micro SDHC card

The display is used to control the device and display information.
The Sunny View communicates via Bluetooth with inverters and the SMA CT Meter (for Japan only).
The Sunny View saves the PV plant data in its internal memory. If a micro SDHC card is available, you

can transfer the PV plant data to it.

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Figure2: Illustration of a PV plant with Sunny View (example)

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3.2 Type Label

The type label clearly identifies the product. The type label is located on the back of the product. If
the product is positioned on the tabletop stand, you must remove it from the tabletop stand to see the
type label. You can read the following data from the type label:

• Device type (Type)

• Serial number (Serial Number)

• MAC address (MAC Address)

• Device-specific characteristics

Yo u wi ll r equ ire the inf ormatio n on the typ e la bel to u se the product safely and when seeking customer
support from the SMA Service Line.

Symbols on the Type Label

Symbol Designation Explanation

MIC designation Type certification in accordance with the

Japanese Radio Law

C-Tick The product complies with the requirements of

the applicable Australian EMC standards.

Bluetooth® Wireless Technology The product has a Bluetooth interface.

Data matrix code 2D code for device-specific characteristics

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4 Operation

4.1 Menu Structure

The menu consists of several menu items. Using the menu items, you can control the slides displayed
and configure the Sunny View settings.

You can call up the menu using (for the position of the icon, see Section 5.2).

Home
Charts
Events
Settings General Display Brightness

Display activity
Scaling of day charts

Sounds Error alert

Key clicks

Information Serial number

Firmware version
Hardware
Bluetooth version
WLAN Mac ID

Date & time Automatic

24-hour format
Time zone
Date
Time

International Language

Country

Slide show Slide duration

PV visualization
Online data Newsfeed

Weather

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