cant get gridpower from SMAplugin

[blema1966]

Hello, first of all I would like to say that I am enthusiastic about the possibilities that arise with TeslaSolarCharger.

This is also the reason why I went into the big challenge as a beginner to install and I found it already positive for me that I have the application running in the container. That both the connection to the car and the Teslamate dashboards work. However, my problem here is that I don't get the value for the grid power and I don't understand why.

• In my setup there is an SMA inverter (192.168.188.114) and an SHM 2.0 (192.168.188.113). I have the SMA plugin running and the LOG shows that it has also joined the multicast group and is now listening on port 7191 for values, but so far in vain. I've been going in circles for many hours without success and even though I'm sure the problem is with me, I'd like to ask if anyone has any ideas as to how I can proceed here or where the problem could lie. Thank you in advance.

[pkuehnel]

On Windows, you need to run the SMA plugin without Docker. Just download the Windows binaries for the SMA Plugin in the Asset section from the latest release, extract everything and start Plugins.SmaEnergymeter.exe.
Note: To let TSC access the values, you need to update the apsettings.json. Just add a Kestrel section below "EnergyMeterMulticastAddress": "239.12.255.254" The result should look like this:

{
  "Serilog": {
    "Using": [
      "Serilog.Sinks.Console"
    ],
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Verbose",
      "Override": {
        "Microsoft": "Information",
        "System": "Error",
        "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Database.Command": "Information"
      }
    },
    "WriteTo": [
      {
        "Name": "Console",
        "Args": {
          "outputTemplate": "[{Timestamp:HH:mm:ss.fff} {Level:u3} {SourceContext}] {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}"
        }
      }
    ],
    "Enrich": [
      "FromLogContext"
    ]
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "EnergyMeterPort": 9522,
  "EnergyMeterMulticastAddress": "239.12.255.254",
  "Kestrel": {
    "Endpoints": {
      "Http": {
        "Url": "http://0.0.0.0:7192"
      }
    }
  }
}

Original outdated answer:
This is because the SMA plugin does not work on Docker on Windows, as it is running in a VM.

remove the SMA plugin from your docker compose file unzip this file and start Plugins.SmaEnergymeter.exe in it. You should then see something like this:

If that is working update the Port of the Grid URL in your TSC container from 7192 to 5000, so the URL should look somewhat like that:

http://192.168.178.35:5000/api/CurrentPower/GetPower

[pkuehnel]

Sorry, my bad. Use the following file. Only appsettings.json has changed. You probably get a Windows Defender notification on startup, which you need to allow.

[blema1966]

I'm so sorry to keep bothering you with this. Unfortunately, when I start the plugin, I'll get the following error message. however after 2 seconds plugin stoped.

[blema1966]

I just removed HTTPS endpoint from appsettings.json file and now it is working :-) thank you so much!!!

[pkuehnel]

I added an issue #820 that, in future releases, all packages should also be published for Windows. But it should work as is for a long time. The last relevant change in the SMA Plugin was over a year ago, so no issues are expected when you update just the TSC part.

[pkuehnel]

@blema1966 From now on you find the Windows binaries on each release as Plugins.SmaEnergymeter-vX.X.X-win-x64.tar.gz. But as long as it is running, no update is needed (very likely nothing will change there). Note: The Kestrel settings are currently not correct in the releases, just keep your appsettings.json file. I will take care of that in a future release.