SMA Webconnect Systems in SUNNY PORTAL Quick Reference Guide
User Manual
Webconnect Systems in SUNNY PORTAL
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Table of Contents
1 Information on this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1 Intended Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2 SMA Webconnect Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3 System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1 Registering the Inverter in Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2 Logging In and Out of Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3 Setting the Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.1 Overview of the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2 Overview of Menus and Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3 "My Webconnect System" > PV System Overview Page. . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3.1 PV System Data Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3.2 System Status in the PV System Data Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3.3 Messages for the System Data Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4 Energy Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5 Page Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1 Configuring Settings for Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1.1 Setting the Display Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1.2 Saving Diagram Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1.3 Printing Diagram Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.1.4 Enlarging the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.2 Sorting the System List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3 Setting Options on the Inverter Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.4 Publishing Sunny Portal Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.4.1 Pages to Be Published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.4.2 Releasing Pages for Viewing in Sunny Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.4.3 Presenting Pages on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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6 PV System Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1 PV System Monitoring Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.2 PV System Logbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.2.1 Retrieving and Filtering Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.2.2 Confirming Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.3 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.3.1 Report Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.3.2 Creating Info Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
6.3.3 Configuring Event Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
6.3.4 Retroactively Generating a Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
6.4 Overview of the System Monitoring Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
6.5 Setting Communication Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.6 Setting the Inverter Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7 System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
7.1 Entering String Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
7.2 Changing System Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
7.3 Changing the System Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.4 Setting the Nominal System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.4.1 Manual Entry of Nominal System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.4.2 Automatic Calculation of Nominal System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7.5 Changing the System Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7.6 Changing Operator Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7.7 Changing/Deleting the System Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
7.8 Entering the Feed-In Tariff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
7.9 Entering the Amount of CO
7.10 Automatic Calculation of the Predicted Annual Yield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
7.11 Setting the Monthly Distribution of the Predicted Annual Yield . . . . . 45
7.12 Editing Data Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Avoided. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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8 Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.1 Calling up the Device Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.2 Calling Up the Device Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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8.3 Entering Line Conductors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.4 Entering the PV Array Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
8.5 Changing the Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
8.6 Changing a Device Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
8.7 Activating/Deactivating Automatic Update for Devices . . . . . . . . . . 51
9 System Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
9.1 Adding Inverters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
9.2 Replacing an Inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
9.3 Deactivating/Activating the Inverters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
9.4 Deleting Inverters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
9.5 Deleting a Sunny Portal System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
10 User Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.1 User Roles and User Rights in Sunny Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.2 Creating a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
10.3 Deleting a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
10.4 Changing User Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
10.5 Changing User Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
11 Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
11.1 Selecting Secure Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
11.2 Required Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
11.2.1 Sunny Portal Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
11.2.2 System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
11.3 Changing Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
11.3.1 Changing the Sunny Portal Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
11.3.2 Changing the System Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
11.4 Sunny Portal Password Forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
12 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
13 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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Validity
This document applies to systems in Sunny Portal consisting only of inverters with integrated or
retrofitted SMA Webconnect function.
Target Group
This document is intended for end users.
Additional Information
Links to additional information can be found at www.SMA-Solar.com:
Document title Document type
Factor — Factor for calculating the amount
CO
2
of CO2 avoided in power generation
Performance ratio – Quality factor for the PV
plant
Symbols
Symbol Explanation
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8"3/*/(
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/05*$&
☐ Indicates a requirement for meeting a specific goal
☑ Desired result
✖ A problem that might occur
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
Technical Information
Technical Information
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Typographies
Typography Use Example
bold • Display texts
• Elements on a user interface
•Terminals
• Elements to be selected
• Elements to be entered
> • Several elements that are to
• The value can be found in the
field Energy.
• Select Settings.
• Enter the value 10 in the field
Minutes.
• Select Settings > Date.
be selected
[Button/Key] • Button or key to be selected or
• Select [Next].
pressed
Nomenclature
Complete designation Designation in this document
Small wind turbine system System
PV system System
SMA Webconnect function Webconnect function
The designation "My Webconnect system" is used as a placeholder for the name that you have
given your Webconnect system in Sunny Portal.
Abbreviations
Abbreviation Designation Explanation
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
IP Internet Protocol ‒
PIC Product Identification Code ‒
PV Photovoltaics Identification key for registration in
RID Registration Identifier Registration key for registration in
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Pr otocol for the dyn ami c assig nme nt
of IP configurations
Sunny Portal
Sunny Portal
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2.1 Intended Use
Sunny Portal is an Internet portal for the monitoring of systems as well as the visualization and
presentation of system data.
In order to use Sunny Portal, you will need an SMA product that can record your system data and
send it to Sunny Portal (see Section2.3 "System Requirements", page8). Depending on the product
that sends the data, various functions are available in Sunny Portal.
2.2 SMA Webconnect Function
The SMA Webconnect function enables data transmission between Sunny Portal and a maximum of
four inverters. This data transmission takes place via a router with Internet access.
Yo u ca n reg ist er a max imu m of fou r inv ert ers wit h We bco nne ct f unction in a joint Sunny Portal system.
Only one of these inverters is allowed to be of the type Sunny Boy Smart Energy. If you have more
than four inverters or more than one inverter of type Sunny Boy Smart Energy, you can register the
inverters in additional Sunny Portal systems.
2.3 System Requirements
☐ A computer with Internet access must be available.
☐ An Internet browser must be installed on the computer.
☐ JavaScript must be activated in the Internet browser.
Selecting a suitable Internet tariff for small systems
To use the new Webconnect function, you will need a permanent Internet connection.
De pen din g on the qua lit y of the Int ern et c onnecti on, the tra nsm ission volume for one inverter will
be between 150 MB and 550 MB/month. When using the system overview in Sunny Portal
with live data display, there is an additional data volume of 600 kB per hour.
• SMA Solar Technology AG recommends using an Internet flat rate.
• Since there is a constant Internet connection to Sunny Portal time-based billing systems
should be avoided. High costs could be incurred.
Required SMA Products
To use Sunny Portal for Webconnect systems, you will need inverters with integrated or retrofitted
Speedwire/Webconnect interface. Information on whether an inverter has an integrated Speedwire/
Webconnect interface or can be retrofitted with a Speedwire/Webconnect interface can be found in
the download area of the respective inverter at www.SMA-Solar.com.
Supported Internet browsers
You can find a list of supported Internet browsers in the technical data on the Sunny Portal product
page www.sma-america.com/sunny-portal.
Recommended Display Resolution
• Minimum 1,024 pixels x 768 pixels
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3.1 Registering the Inverter in Sunny Portal
Requirements:
☐ The PV system must be commissioned.
☐ DHCP must be enabled for the router of the PV system.
☐ The router of the PV system must have an Internet connection.
☐ The PI C an d RI D of a ll i nve rte rs m ust be a vai labl e (s ee i nve rte r typ e la bel or s tic ker n ear the typ e
label).
Procedure:
• Start the PV System Setup Assistant in Sunny Portal
•Registering as a New User in Sunny Portal
or
Login as an existing user in Sunny Portal
• Creating a Webconnect System in Sunny Portal
Starting the PV System Setup Assistant in Sunny Portal
The PV System Setup Assistant guides you step-by-step through user registration and the registration
of your PV system in Sunny Portal.
Procedure:
1. Go to www.SunnyPortal.com.
2. Select [PV System Setup Assistant].
☑ The PV System Setup Assistant opens.
3. Select [Next].
☑The page User Registration opens.
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Register as a new user in Sunny Portal
1. Activate the checkbox I am not yet registered and select [Next].
2. Enter the necessary data for registration.
3. Select [Next].
☑ You will receive an e-mail containing a hyperlink and your access data to Sunny Portal
within a few minutes.
✖ You did not receive an e-mail from Sunny Portal?
The e-mail may have been automatically redirected to your spam mail folder.
• Check whether the e-mail is in the spam mail folder.
You may have stated a different e-mail address.
• Check whether the e-mail was sent to the other e-mail address.
• If the other e-mail address is an unknown address, restart the PV System Setup Assistant
and register as a new user again.
4. Follow the hyperlink in the confirmation e-mail within 24 hours.
☑ Sunny Portal opens a separate window and confirms successful registration.
• Select [Next].
☑The page Select PV system opens.
Login as an Existing User in Sunny Portal
In addition to your existing system, another system will be created in Sunny Portal for your
Webconnect system. You can call up the systems via the menu PV System Selection.
Requirement:
☐ You must already be registered in Sunny Portal.
Procedure:
1. Enter the e-mail address and the Sunny Portal password in the fields E-mail Address and
Password.
2. Select [Next].
☑The page Select PV system opens.
Create a Webconnect system in Sunny Portal
1. Select the option Create a new PV system and enter a PV system name
(e.g. My Webconnect system) in the field PV System Name.
2. Enter the system password for the user role "Installer" of your system in the field PV System
Password. If you have not yet changed the system password for the user role "Installer", the
default system password 1111 is set. In such cases, you must now assign a new system
password.
3. Enter the system password again in the field Repeat password.
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4. Select [Next].
☑The page Select devices opens.
5. Enter the PIC and RID of an inverter in your system in the PIC and RID fields (for PIC and RID,
see inverter type label or sticker near the type label).
6. Select [Identify].
☑ The P V System Setup Ass istan t establis hes a conne ction to the inverters and then adopts the
data entered without displaying an error message.
✖ Is an error message displayed?
• Rectify the error as stated in the error message.
7. To add up to three more inverters, enter the PIC and RID for each additional inverter and select
[Identify]. A Webconnect system can consist of up to four inverters. To add more inverters,
create another Webconnect system after completion of the registration.
8. Select [Next].
☑The page Extended PV System Properties opens.
9. Enter the system properties.
10. Select [Next].
☑ The PV System Setup Assistant shows a summary of your entered data.
11. Select [Finish].
☑ Sunny Portal configures your Sunny Portal system.
12. To switch to the Sunny Portal system, select [To the PV system]
☑ Your Webconnect system in Sunny Portal opens.
3.2 Logging In and Out of Sunny Portal
Logging into Sunny Portal
Requirement:
☐ You must already be registered in Sunny Portal.
Procedure:
1. Go to www.SunnyPortal.com.
2. In the Login area, enter your e-mail address in the field E-mail.
3. Enter the Sunny Portal password in the field Password.
4. Activate the SSL checkbox to transmit the encrypted login data.
5. Activate the Remain logged in checkbox to stay logged in for your next Sunny Portal visits.
This means that you will remain logged into Sunny Portal until you actively log out.
6. Select [Login].
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Logging Out of Sunny Portal
By logging out of the Sunny Portal user interface, you protect your system against unauthorized
access.
Procedure:
•Select [Logout] in the header.
or
•Select User Info/Logout > Logout in the page and menu selection.
3.3 Setting the Language
1. In the user interface header, move the mouse pointer onto .
☑ A drop-down menu opens.
2. Select the desired language.
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4.1 Overview of the User Interface
Figure1: User interface of Sunny Portal (example)
Position Designation Explanation
A Header Contains the language selection and logout from
Sunny Portal
B Content area Contents of the selected page
C Page and menu
selection
Access to the pages and menu items
Released pages of the menu "My Webc onn ect sys tem " are
marked with the icon (see Section5.4.2 "Releasing Pages
for Viewing in Sunny Portal", page28).
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4.2 Overview of Menus and Pages
System Selection Menu
Requirement for displaying the menu:
☐ Your e-mail address must be assigned to more than one system in Sunny Portal.
In this menu you can select the desired system. The name of the currently selected system is adopted
as the name of the second menu item. All other pages always refer to the currently selected system.
Page Explanation
PV System List The page includes an overview of systems that are assigned to
your e-mail address. By default, the system list is sorted in
ascending order according to the specific system yield. You can
also sort the system list by other values and in descending order
(see Section5 "Page Settings", page26).
Menu "My Webconnect System"
This menu contains all pages with information, system data, and visualizations for your system.
Page Explanation
System Overview This page provides you with an overview of the most important
in for mat ion abo ut your syst em. The display and ran ge of fun cti ons
of the page depend on your user role (see Section10.1,
page56).
For information on system data, see Section 4.3.
If the checkbox Display the monthly distribution in the
yearly comparison, as well as energy and power is
activated, the average expected yield will also be displayed in
the diagram in the Year and Total tabs (see Section7.11,
page45).
System Profile Sunny Portal compiles the system profile from information that you
can enter on different Sunny Portal pages (see Section4.3.2,
page19).
Energy Balance This page will only be displayed if there is an inverter of type
Sunny Boy Smart Energy registered in your Sunny Portal system.
The display visualizes the temporal progression of the power or
energy flowing between your PV system, your household, the
utility grid and your battery.
For further information on this page, see Section 4.4.
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Page Explanation
Annual Comparison This page provides you with a summary of the total yield and the
specific system yield per month in a year overview.
If the checkbox Display the monthly distribution in the
yearly comparison, as well as energy and power is
activated, the average expected yield will also be displayed
(see Section7.11, page45).
PV System Monitoring On this page, the following PV system monitoring functions are
available (see Section 6.4):
• Communication monitoring: monitoring of the
communication between Sunny Portal and the inverters
• Inverter comparison: system monitoring via comparison of
the inverter yields, provided that at least two inverters are
present in the system
If the communication monitoring or the inverter comparison show
an err or o r warnin g, t he icon wil l be dis played i n the pag e an d
menu selection next to the menu PV System Monitoring. The
icon will be displayed until communication is restored or the
inverter comparison error has been eliminated.
PV System Logbook This page shows messages in connection with system status,
e.g. disturbances in your system. The number after the colon
indicates the number of unread messages.
For further information on this page, see Section 6.2.
Inverter On the Day tab on this page, you can view the power values of
all inverters for specific days.
On the Month, Year, Total tab s, yo u ca n vi ew t he e ner gy v alue s
of all inverters.
You can select the display type above the diagram:
• absolute: displays the system yield (kWh)
• specific: displays the specific system yield (kWh/kWp)
For further information on this page, see Section 5.3.
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Configuration Menu
This menu contains pages on which you can make configurations. This menu is only displayed if you
have the user role Installer or Administrator.
Page Explanation
System Properties On this page, you can use the various tabs to configure your
Sunny Portal system.
System Presentation On this page you have the following options:
• Send third parties a hyperlink to your released pages
(see Section5.4.2, page28).
• Embed the page PV system profile in other websites.
Device Overview All the devices of your system are listed on this page. You can call
up device properties, parameters, and messages.
Report Configuration On this page you can configure Sunny Portal to inform you by
e-mail of events and other information such as yield
(see Section6.3, page32).
User Management This page displays a list of all users to whom you have granted
access to the system (see Section10.2, page58).
User Info/Logout Menu
Page Explanation
User Information Displays your user information
Logout Ends your session in Sunny Portal
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4.3 "My Webconnect System" > PV System Overview Page
4.3.1 PV System Data Area
Information Symbol Explanation
Current Power This value indicates the current power. If the value
cannot be currently updated due to a temporary
connection problem with your PV system, the last
known value with corresponding time stamp will be
displayed.
The icon shows how high the current power is
compared to the installed system power
(peak power).
You can access the page Energy Balance using t he
hyperlink Energy Balance.
Current Consumption* Current consumption of your PV system
You can access the page Energy Balance using t he
hyperlink Energy Balance.
The symbols indicate the kind of energy being
consumed:
Your household is currently drawing power from the
PV system and the utility grid.
Your household is currently drawing power from the
PV system.
Your household is currently drawing power from the
utility grid
Current battery status*
(example)
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• The battery is currently being charged with
power from your PV system.
• The number of bars indicates the battery state
of charge.
• Specification in %: battery state of charge
• Specification in W: power currently being
charged to the battery.
Tip: If you move the mouse pointer to the battery
symbol, the battery state of charge and the current
battery capacity compared to nominal battery
capacity are displayed. Battery capacity decreases
with age. This is due to a natural aging process.
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Information Symbol Explanation
• The battery is currently being discharged.
Your household is currently drawing power
from the battery.
• The number of bars indicates the battery state
of charge.
(example)
• Specification in %: battery state of charge
• Specification in W: power currently being
drawn from the battery by the household.
• Currently, the battery is neither being charged
or discharged.
• The number of bars indicates the battery state
of charge.
(example)
• Specification in %: battery state of charge
• Specification in W: since the battery is being
neither charged nor discharged, the power
value is 0.
Current PV system status The icon displays the current system status
(for explanations, refer to Section 4.3.2).
You can activate the page PV System Logbook
using the hyperlink PV System Logbook.
Energy Today: the value states the energy produced so far
by the PV system on the current day.
Total: the value states the total energy produced so
far by the PV system, based on the aggregate meter
readings of the inverters.
Reimbursement** This icon is only displayed if the feed-in tariff has been
set (see Section 7.8).
Today: the value states the reimbursement
calculated so far for the current day.
Total: the value states the total reimbursement
calculated so far.
avoided Today: the value states the CO2 emission avoided
CO
2
by the PV system so far on the current day.
Total: the value states the CO2 emission avoided by
the PV system since it was commissioned.
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Information Symbol Explanation
System information The value states the installed system power
(peak power) of the PV system. The date is the
commissioning day of the PV system.
You can activate the page PV System Profile using
the hyperlink PV System Profile.
Weather The current weather for the PV system location is
displayed.
You can scroll to the weather forecast for the next
day at noon using the hyperlink Tomorrow.
Location Displays the PV system location on a map extract.
A larger view of the map can be activated via the
hyperlink Enlarge map.
* Only displayed if there is an inverter of type Sunny Boy Smart Energy in your PV system.
** Only displayed if you have entered the feed-in tariff (see Section7.8, page44). The data is not suitable for billing
purposes. The data may deviate from the data supplied by the energy meter.
4.3.2 System Status in the PV System Data Area
The text below the icon is a hyperlink that can be used to activate the PV system logbook.
Information in the System Profile
Symbol Text below the icon Explanation
PV System Logbook All existing status information for the devices is OK.
n device/s cannot be reached All existing status information for the devices is OK;
however, information is not available for all devices.
The text below the icon shows the number of devices
that cannot be reached. The status of these devices
could not be captured.
n device/s with warnings A warning has occurred.
The text below the icon shows the number of devices
that are affected by the warning.
n device/s with errors An error has occurred.
The text below the icon shows the number of devices
that are affected by the error.
PV System Logbook The status of all devices is unknown.
Fu rth er info rma tio n ca n be acc ess ed v ia the h ype rli nk
PV System Logbook below the icon.
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Sunny Portal compiles the system profile from information that you can enter on different Sunny Portal
pages. The following table includes the possible information in the system profile and the source for
changing or entering the information.
Information Configuration
Location (see Section7.2 "Changing System Data", page39)
Operator (see Section7.6 "Changing Operator Data", page42)
Commissioning (see Section7.2 "Changing System Data", page39)
Nominal system power (see Section7.4 "Setting the Nominal System Power", page40)
Annual production (see Section7.10 "Automatic Calculation of the Predicted Annual Yield",
page45)
avoided (see Section7.9 "Entering the Amount of CO2 Avoided", page44)
CO
2
Modules (see Section7.1 "Entering String Properties", page38)
Azimuth
Tilt angle
Communication No configuration necessary, this information is automatically detected.
Inverter
Description (see Section7.5 "Changing the System Description", page41)
PV system image (see Section7.7 "Changing/Deleting the System Image", page42)
4.3.3 Messages for the System Data Area
On the page PV system overview, messages are displayed if Sunny Portal cannot retrieve any
current data from the devices. In this case, the data displayed on the page PV System Overview is
not current.
Messages are displayed on the right above the PV System Data area with the symbol .
The number in the icon represents the number of messages. The color of the symbol indicates the
message category.
Symbol Meaning
red = error
*
yellow = warning
blue = information
* The table gives examples of the symbol with three messages.
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Retrieving Messages
1. Select the symbol .
☑ A window appears containing the message and a possible corrective measure.
2. To close the window, select [OK].
4.4 Energy Balance
Requirements for displaying the page:
☐ There must be one Sunny Boy Smart Energy in the Sunny Portal system.
☐ The SMA Energy Meter must be connected to the Sunny Boy Smart Energy.
Showing and hiding data
• You can show and hide the data indicated in the legend of the diagram. To do this, click on the
respective value in the legend which you wish to show or hide.
• If a battery is present in your PV system, you can choose between the simplified view without
battery data and the detailed view with battery data. To do this, you must activate or deactivate
the checkbox Detailed view.
Scaling values in the diagram up to peak system power
• Use the tabs Current and Day to configure scaling of the values up to peak system power.
To do this, move the mouse pointer to the gearwheel icon on the right underneath the diagram
and select in the drop-down menu.
The page Energy Balance includes the following tabs:
Tab Content
Current Data in the diagram Consumption:
• Current consumption: Power that your household is currently
drawing from your PV system (direct consumption), the utility grid
(purchased electricity) and, if applicable, the battery (battery
discharging).
• Purchased electricity: Power that your household is currently
drawing from the utility grid.
• Internal power supply: Power that your household is drawing
directly from your PV system (direct consumption) and the battery
(battery discharging).
• Battery discharging* : Power that your household is currently
drawing from the battery.
• Direct consumption*: Power that your household is currently
drawing from your PV system, without intermediate storage in the
battery.
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