Showing posts with label upgrade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label upgrade. Show all posts
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Successful SAMIL v1.20 firmware upgrade
Well a week on from the upgrade of the SAMIL 5200TL-D to firmware version 1.20 and so-far so good!
Despite the ASUS netbook, which I've been using to monitor the generator, going into standby on a regular basis, every time I have woken it up, exited and restarted the SolarPower Browser, within a few seconds the SAMIL has re-established communication (via the cabled LAN connection).
That's a first for my installation!
This week's test will be to connect the SAMIL back to my 24x7 server on my home LAN (still via cable) with the SolarPower Browser running 24x7 and see how that goes.
Caveat here is that Samil have warned that the SolarPower Browser software is not very stable, but that aside, I want to see if the Inverter will at-least consistently re-connect when it's asked to.
(as it has been doing all this week)
My plan is, that if that works I will attempt to set up the Samil VI-Plant cloud-based monitoring connection again, as the Samil staff have kindly offered to clear out the details of my first inverter ... though that has yet to actually happen.
Once the Wifi firmware fix is released, I'll attempt to go back to using a Wifi connection.
I'd still appreciate hearing from any other SAMIL users out there who have found this site useful.
It's been quite remarkable to me, the level of site visits this series of blog entries has generated!
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Upgraded Samil 5200 Firmware to v1.20
I finally had a weekend with a few daylight hours to myself, so following an assurance by another Samil customer, that the Samil software update provided would take me to a later version than the 1.10 my (replacement) inverter was at, I followed the nice clear update instructions Samil had sent and had an error-free upgrade to version 1.20
I used my stand-alone LAN with just a Netbook – a switch – the Samil
I had to hardcode the Samil IP as it still would not acquire an DHCP address from the switch, but using DHCP (from the switch) for the netbook which set itself to 192.168.0.100 and hard-coding the Samil to 192.168.0.101 got the job done.
Initially I was a little concerned after the repowering the unit following the complete shutdown (post upgrade).
As the unit was going through its checking countdown it repeatedly got to step 53, jumped to step 40 and appeared to restart.
It did this about four, times before proceeding through the rest of the checks and came on-line.
It has now been running and talking to the Solar Power Browser on the Netbook for over two hours.
If the software logging appears to work as expected over the next week or two, I may try to set up the VI-Plant option again, although I notice there is still quite a lot of missing data (in VI-Plant records) where nothing is recorded, so that doesn’t inspire a great deal of confidence! 
If I do decide to re-try VI-Plant, I still need to work out how I delete the old inverter from my VI-Plant account (S/N SW5128K485)!
In the last email to from Samil (22 April), it was mentioned that ...
“...the R&D is working on the wifi dropping off randomly issue right now.”
I am waiting for an update on that.
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