SunnyBeam Bluetooth display

This week we were set the "challenge" of connecting a SunnyBeam Bluetooth desktop display unit to a customer's SMA SunnyBoy 4000tl inverter. I put the word challenge in quotation marks as in reality, the set-up could not have been easier.

The SunnyBeam is a very easy to use unit display unit, providing the owner with information regarding the connected solar system's performance over the course of a day, month and year as well as an estimate of the system's financial benefit since installation.




Quite simply it requires the installer to set the Bluetooth NetID setting on the SMA inverter to anything between 2-9 or A-G before commissioning. The factory setting of 1 will not suffice for connection of a SunnyBeam. Then the installer proceeds to commission the inverter as per normal.

Once the solar system is up and running it is time to unpack and power up the SunnyBeam. Follow the simple on screen instructions using the rotary scroller and button single input controller. Set the language, date, time etc and the SunnyBeam will search for Bluetooth signal from SMA inverters, choose the correct NetID and the little display unit will connect and operate correctly, job done.

All in all a triumph for SMA and another happy customer for Norman Environmental. Note that if required at a later the system can be added by decommissioning the solar system very briefly and adding the SunnyBeam post installation.

Our unit came complete with German only instructions, if you have the same experience (and don't understand German!) then you can download the English instructions using the link below.

http://files.sma.de/dl/8584/BeamBT-BEN094911.pdf

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