Solis wifi stick or another monitoring device

Skintsaver

Hello.
I've had a Solis inverters installed and I'm thinking it would be a good Idea to beable to monitor it to check each strings are working through the day, find out the peak time of day to switch heavy loads on. So before I commit to spending £80 on a dongle I have some questions, some of you may be able to recommend a different system alltogether.

Will I beable to see what each string is producing? 

On the advance info screen of the inverter , will all this information be relayed to the cloud? 

Will I be able to connect it to a service like IFTTT,  I'm thinking of running a circuit round my house where things like chargers ect..  Can be plugged in and these can only be used during higher outputs of the inverter. 

Will I be able to see what I'm producing, using off the inverter and importing? (I think a smart meter will do this when I get one.) 

How far back does this logs go back? 

70sbudgie

I can see quite a lot with the Solis app. Here is a screen shot of yesterday, showing the DV power of each of my two strings. The sun hasn't been up long enough today to show much, but it seems to update every few minutes, so that I can see the dips when the sun goes behind a cloud, as it happens.




I haven't got to grips with the website yet, but I think I can download the data, it just doesn't make pretty graphs.

Here is the list of parameters I can put on the graph on the app:

Skintsaver

Thanks for this it does look handy, I like the idea of being able to see the ambient temp of the inverter 

70sbudgie

I'm not convinced that it actually shows me the temp - it has been zero for every reading I've looked at. 

70sbudgie

I've just had another play around and it seems the IGBT temperature that fluctuates. I don't know if it is cause or correlation, but when the temperature gets to about 50° the power seems to be limited. When the power exceeds 3kW, the temperature seems to be at most in the low 40°s.