FTP output from Schneider Conext CL

Questions
#1

Hello All,

I have a 25 kW Schneider Conext CL Inverter. Schneider has stopped supporting the online logging of data from this inverter on their ‘Insight’ portal as of today.

The Inverter can periodically upload data to an FTP site. Is there any way to automatically upload data via FTP to pvoutput?

Thanks.

#2

This is currently not supported, HTTP is preferred over FTP.

#3

Hi, I can save the CSV files to our web server. Is there a way to have them automatically sent to PV output?

#4

If the CSV is saved in the following format, then you can use the PVOutput Integration Service to read the file and upload it to PVOutput.

DATE,TIME,POWER,ENERGY
20110719,12:00,100,1000
20110719,12:05,200,1500

The service install can be downloaded from - https://bitbucket.org/pvoutput/pvoutput-integration-service/downloads/

#5

Thanks. I will try that although I don’t think it will work since the CSV files generated dont have a date column, only time.

#6

Possibly the next version of the service will be able to handle time only data.

#7

Version 1.5.3 should now be able to handle the Conext csv format.

In csv.ini

label.time=TimeStamp
label.power=Active Power
label.energy=Energy Today
skip.lines=4
delimiter=;
unit.energy=kWh
unit.power=kW

In pvoutput.ini

format=csv
dir=c:/csv_location/
file={yyyy-MM-dd}.csv
#8

This has worked very well. Thank you very much!

Just one clarification. What is the field for Energy exported?
label.xxxxxx=Energy Exported

#9

Export is calculated with generation and consumption data.

However, it can be uploaded to an extended parameter.

label.v7=Energy Exported

The configure the display of Extended Data v7 at - https://pvoutput.org/help.html#extendeddata-config