no response from grott since 2024-07-16 8:00

[cbshopper]

since yesterday grott is not working any more - maybe something in the growat api has changed... -
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Grott settings:
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:
version: 2.7.8
verbose: True
trace: False
config file: grott.ini
minrecl: 100
decrypt: True
compat: False
invtype: sph
invtypemap: {}
include_all: False
blockcmd: False
noipf: False
time: auto
sendbuf: True
timezone: local
valueoffset: 6
offset: 6
inverterid: automatic
mode: proxy
grottip 0.0.0.0
grottport 5279
_MQTT:
nomqtt False
mqttip: 192.168.0.100
mqttport: 1883
mqtttopic: energy/growatt
mqttmtopic: False
mqttmtopicname: energy/meter
mqttinverterintopic: False
mqtttretain: False
mqtttauth: True
mqttuser: hugo
mqttpsw: secret
_Growatt server:
growattip: 8.209.71.240
growattport: 5279
_PVOutput:
pvoutput: False
pvdisv1: False
pvtemp: False
pvurl: https://pvoutput.org/service/r2/addstatus.jsp
pvapikey:
pvinverters: 1
pvsystemid: 12345
_Influxdb:
influx: False
influx2: False
database: grottdb
ip: localhost
port: 8086
user: grott
password: secret
organization: grottorg
bucket: grottdb
token: secret
_Extension:
extension: False
extname: grottext
extvar: {'none': 'none'}
Grott proxy mode started
Hostname : hc.fritz.box
IP : 192.168.0.100 , port : 5279 `

nothing more, no packages are received.
The IP-Address of server.growatt.com has changed - i had to change the settings in the web-Interface or my inverter. Growatt Server Web Interface still working.

[pseuss]

Same for me. Web Interface and Shine App still works and has actual data.

[wbrocker]

Have a look at #563

[cbshopper]

have a look on the configuration output - ip address is already updated. But still no communication ....

[fbojor]

I also have this issue. The first time when I reconfigure data logger it sends the data then stops. It's like growatt updates the server on data logger or smth

[wbrocker]

Have you tried to add blockcmd = True to the grott.ini

That solved it for me after updating my local IP again on the Growatt interface.

[pseuss]

After updating the .ini and adding my IP on the logger, everything works as before. Thanks!

[fbojor]

All good for me also, updated the IP and reconfigured the logger. TY!

[lspaula]

Same thing here. Is there a way of reconfiguring the server IP on the dongle from a remote location, without having to connect to the dongle locally via a Wi-Fi hotspot?

[Perrylicious]

Is there a way of reconfiguring the server IP on the dongle from a remote location, without having to connect to the dongle locally via a Wi-Fi hotspot?

If you have connected the plant to the growatt servers, you can do it from the dashboard. In the dashboard of server.growatt.com there is an area headlined "My Photovoltaic Devices". Top right of that is the "All devices ->" link that takes you to where the datalogger settings are (as opposed to the power plant device).

Select "Datalogger setting" on the right, then enter a value in "set IP(caution IP transfer with)". You need to enter a password at the bottom which is the word "growatt" followed immediately by today's date in YYYYMMDD notation, so today's password would be

growatt20240717

Then click "Yes" and wait for the update notification. This is what I did (along with changing the values in the .ini) and it worked for me.

[Snille]

Ok for me to now.

1. Change the IP in the "Dongle" (back to grott:s IP again).
2. Uncommented the "ip = server.growatt.com" in the grott.ini.
3. Restarted grott (sudo service grott restart)
4. restarted the dongle ("Datalogger Setting" -> Selected "Reboot Able: Yes" and clicked save....

After the reboot everything worked again... :)

[cbshopper]

Yes - now it works again :-)
Thank you all!

[lspaula]

Great,

So here is everything I have done (after changing the IP in the server.growatt.com site as above mentioned):

Uncommented the following line to the grott.ini file:

blockcmd = True

Change the growatt server in the grott.ini file:

[Growatt]
#ip = server.growatt.com
ip = 8.209.71.240
port = 5279

Restart the grott service:

sudo service grott restart

Thank you very much for the fast response. Both inverters are sending data to my InFlux database again.

Regards,

Luciano

[Gemies]

Great,

So here is everything I have done (after changing the IP in the server.growatt.com site as above mentioned):

Uncommented the following line to the grott.ini file:

blockcmd = True

Change the growatt server in the grott.ini file:

[Growatt]
#ip = server.growatt.com
ip = 8.209.71.240
port = 5279

Restart the grott service:

sudo service grott restart

Thank you very much for the fast response. Both inverters are sending data to my InFlux database again.

Regards,

Luciano

This worked for me, thanks a lot!

Although i did fullrestart of home assistant and did the changes and the restart in the grott addon configuration.

[alby6969]

Hi, I am a fossil, and this logging into dongles and ip is a bit beyond my levels of understanding. Will this be rectified in the next ShinePhone update?

I am happy to use the web to view my data for now. So long as the ShinePhone update they do next will fix it?

[johanmeijer]

What do you expect to be fixed by a shinephone update? Growatt will not fixing the grott challenges I think.

[jirris]

I can confirm that changing IP to server name server.growatt.com in grott.ini fixed the issue for me. No need for blocking the commands.

[johanmeijer]

Probably it will work until growatt decide to change IP address again ;)

Using the server.growatt.com url instead of IP address might prevent future outages.

[jirris]

Well that's what I meant, changed to domain name so it started working.

[bockelaar]

server.growatt.com looks like a round-robin for 8.209.71.240 and 47.254.130.145 and is an alias for nlb-nbtf7vlspietfgd3ro.eu-central-1.nlb.aliyuncs.com which looks like a loadbalancer. Stuff breaks this way :)