Hello all,

Really hoping I can get some help. I am living overseas but my mom has a solar setup with a 5kW Axpert Inverter and 2x Pylontech US3000 batteries. We used ICC Software's ICC on a Pi to manage and control it and that failed and I managed to pull out an older Pi with Centurion Solar's really old ICC software and then bought a new Pi with ICM on it. I couldn't get it working properly when I visited SA at the end of last year and then found out that Manie had unfortunately passed away. The old Pi has now also died so I need to get the new ICM working.

The connections at the moment are; there is a USB cable from the Inverter to the Pi, and there is the Pylontech cable from the Console plug on the Pylontech's to the USB port on the Pi. ICM is picking up the information on the inverter, and the thread says that the Pylontech thread is running but I am not seeing any values for any of the batteries. I was lucky enough to get all the settings off the old Pi and I have mirrored those on the new Pi, but there are some new parameters in ICM that I have tried a number of variations on, but I still can't get the batteries and settings to work the way they should.

Is there anyone on this forum who would be able to assist is checking the software setup, or pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks

Graham

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by GrahamICo
Correction of information

Hi all,

So a further update on this. I shut down the entire system and restarted it, and now I am getting some battery values, although they seem incorrect. It it showing SOC at 75%, although I know the batteries (from the lights) are at about 20%. There is also no battery voltage information, or battery watt information coming through. So it would seem to be as though the hardware is working and hopefully it is a software setting that I can change.

Hi GrahamICo

I used ICM for 3 months and the setups experiences went bad due to not able to pick up the inverters properly. I must say I have little knowledge on ICM setups

What is your ICM version number (Dashboard 1)? Have you checked the inverter settings to select Battery Type "User"?

That ICC software no longer supports due to end of life.

Hi FrankM,

Thanks for your message. The ICM version is 1.18. The version of ICM that I have had an option for Battery type of user and Pylon - I tried both - same result unfortunately.