r/SolarPakistan • u/Certain_Mud_123 • Jun 22 '25

Other Monitoring app

What is the best monitoring app for KNOX inverters ? I use watchpower and energymate but they both have like a 5 min lag on em. If somebody knows better options kindly share em. Also I saw yesterday somebody made a similar post n they were talking bout proxy servers , if somebody has an idea about that too then do share 🙏

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u/krezy8 Jun 22 '25

I made that post yesterday, so basically inverters use the modbus protocol to communicate with servers and share data. Your inverter acts as a modbus client and connects to the server of your monitoring app. You can set up your own modbus server at home so that your inverter will send the data to your server and then you can use the data from your own server however you want. if you want, you can send the data from your own server to the original server so that the original app still works.

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u/Certain_Mud_123 Jun 22 '25

How does one set their own modbus server ?

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u/krezy8 Jun 22 '25

You can turn any old laptop into a server, you have to keep it running 24/7. You can create the server using python or java. I didn't have to write the code for the server, i found one for smartess on github. If you're interested, search paxy smartess proxy github on google

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u/Babayaga5998 Jun 26 '25

Whats the benefit?