Moon power not working on addstatus.jsp

API
#1

According to the API spec, if you upload solar data for a night time, the service should return

Bad request 400: Moon Powered

It would be helpful if it did this rather than accept and silently ignore uploads.

In my case, the PVStats client was uploading the date/time as the inverter returned it, which was in UTC.

PVOutput accepted this data until it started doing nothing at 00:15 UTC.

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It started showing data again 05:05 UTC. Presumablly because it thought 5am was a reasonable time to start generating power, but of course by then it was dark here.

All the while from 00:15 → 05:05 UTC it kept responding with OK 200: Added Status when clearly all was not OK.

The 400 Moon response would have made troubleshooting much easier. Instead i assumed the service was having some sort of outage or backlog processing updates.

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#2

It is still possible to post some data under 0.10kWh/kW without triggering the ‘Moon Power’ error.

The data from 0:00 to 0:15 is under this threshold.

#3

Hi, sorry misssed the reply…

The issue is not that the requests from 0:00 to 0:15 were accepted, the issue is that requests from 0:15 → 05:05 were accepted with OK 200: Added Status but do not show on the site.

Presumably the API is supposed to return error 400: moon power for those uploads?

#4

Yes, you are right. Unfortunately the ‘Moon’ currently only validates ‘v1’ energy but not ‘v2’ power.