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Good day, Are there any issue with running ICC with patched Axpert firmware? I want to update to 72.20e. It seems my inverter does qualify for this update as it is a MKS 5kVA (PF1) with 145VDC max MPPT SCC running on FW v72.20 and I am able to set the absorb voltage to 64v - Is it safe to assume that I will be able to update? I am using ICC and want to know if anyone is running ICC with patched FW? In ICC the charge current is using 10A steps. Is this set dictated by the inverter FW or was it hardcoded into ICC (might have to approach Manie for this question).

This is my first post on this forum and I thought it would be good to have a contribution as a first post and hope to help someone in future. I have a 'big' deployment of Home Assistant running at home with all my lights, geyser and pool pump being controlled via Sonoffs with Tasmota Fw. Some of these devices are controlled via automation scripts to switch on the geyser at certain times or the lights when I get home after dark. Now... with me getting into solar energy and buying a variant of the Axpert inverter it was a no brainer to look into ICC (although as I am writing this I am still on my 7 day trial). I installed it and had to get used to the interface. A few days in and I am liking it very much. I keep checking the dashboard for stats. Logging into VNC from my PC and phone is becoming tedious and I noticed that sometimes the ICC app hangs for a while. In order to make it easier I have checked with Manie about the MQTT capabilities and I have been able to successfully extract data from ICC. At first I tried to push all the ICC data to my MQTT broker running on my Home Assistant instance, but for some reason it took a dive. I reverted the MQTT back to the local ICC broker. I then setup a MQTT bridge on my Home Assistant broker to only extract certain topics from ICC and then integrated this into my Energy page for quick viewing of my energy stats. I had to connect to the ICC broker to scan for all the topics used by ICC. I did this with MQTT FX. I then setup the MQTT bridge as below: Go to the HASS.io tab in Home Assistant, click on Mosquitto and change the config as below. Change customize > Active to true. { "logins": [ { "username": "xxxxxxxx", "password": "xxxxxxxx" } ], "anonymous": true, "customize": { "active": true, "folder": "mosquitto" }, "certfile": "fullchain.pem", "keyfile": "privkey.pem" } Click save SSH to HASS.io and log in. cd .. cd share mkdir mosquito cd mosquito touch mosquitto.conf nano mosquito.conf add the following text: #connection ICC connection ICC address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx topic <topic as scanned> in 0 Press Ctrl-X, type Y to save. I subscribribed to the follwing as an initial test: topic Inverter/Month_PV_Total in 0 topic Inverter/SolarKwUse in 0 topic Inverter/MaxPvDay in 0 Go to the HASS.io tab in Home Assistant, click on Mosquitto and click restart to restart the broker. If all goes well, connecting to your Home Assistant broker and scanning for the topics should show the ICC topics your Home Assistant broker subscribed to. Just add these topics as sensors in your configuration.yaml file on Home Assistant adn you should be able to see the info. Now I can use this data to use my Home Assistant to check the PV input and switch on the geyser or poolpump to burn the excess energy generated. PS: I am enjoying all the wealth of info on this great site.