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We've been working on creating a manual to help with setting up the GEM and DashBox for our new bundles. The first version of this manual is now available.
We'll have a version of this manual with ECM-1240 instructions in the future.

Jut to clarify one point is the user name: admin and password: Brultech pertaining to the first generation silver units?

As I recall Pass1 was stated but gather this pertains to the second generation black units? If so both should be stated at the bottom of the user manual.

Teken wrote:Jut to clarify one point is the user name: admin and password: Brultech pertaining to the first generation silver units?

As I recall Pass1 was stated but gather this pertains to the second generation black units? If so both should be stated at the bottom of the user manual.

It looks like pass1 is correct. We'll correct the manual to reflect that.

I note that in your post you were going to produce a manual for setting up the 1240 with the dashbox. Is that available somewhere?

susunny wrote:I note that in your post you were going to produce a manual for setting up the 1240 with the dashbox. Is that available somewhere?

I don't think it's completed yet but it should be pretty simple.

With your DashBox is already setup, and you're connecting via STS cable.
- Connect the STS cable to the ECM-1240
- Plug the STS cable into the front of the DashBox, make note of the Port number
- Go to the Settings section of the DashBox
- If your ECM-1240 is showing under Energy Monitors, you're good to go.
- If not, under System, go to Change Baud Rates.
- Set the Port that the ECM-1240 is connected to to baud 19200.



Via EtherPort/Bee:
- Connect to the ECM-1240 via the IA software.
- Under ECM-1240 Setup, change the packet format to HTTP.
- On the top menu click Set URL Info.
- Set POST Root URL to the DashBox IP.
- Set POST URL Extension to /index.php/ecmEngine/ecm1240
- Under ECM-1240 Setup, click Re-Boot ECM-1240
- Check the XBee Commands tab to verify the packet looks correct, it should look vaguely like:

GET /index.php/ecmEngine/ecm1240?...........
HOST: DashBoxIP

- In the EtherX software, set Server IP to DashBox IP.
- Set Port beside Server IP to 80.
- Set mode to Client or Mixed mode.
- Save the settings.
- Check DashBox settings, Energy Monitors for the ECM-1240

The part getting it connected and working, is pretty easy when you use the rs232 ports, what is hard is configuring the various reports so they give you correct info. For instance the calendar will give me daily consumption use, but I can't get it to report total solar generation. It used to do that before we had the sd card failure.

susunny wrote:The part getting it connected and working, is pretty easy when you use the rs232 ports, what is hard is configuring the various reports so they give you correct info. For instance the calendar will give me daily consumption use, but I can't get it to report total solar generation. It used to do that before we had the sd card failure.

Configure the channel with the Solar Inverter to "Net". That'll create a new NET channel at the bottom of the channel listing. Mark that channel as "Inverter".

I did that, I need it to populate the calendar with the daily production, when I click on the calendar tab it comes up with data for consumption, but when I change it to solar, not data shows up in the calendar.

susunny wrote:I did that, I need it to populate the calendar with the daily production, when I click on the calendar tab it comes up with data for consumption, but when I change it to solar, not data shows up in the calendar.

The NET channel will only start logging from the day it was created. Did you have to recreate it?

Yes, we had to recreate the whole thing. Some of the steps I remembered, but it would be nice if you could put out a "Dashbox for dummies and 1240 for dummies" some of the things that are obvious to you are not so to obvious to the average hobbyist.