I have found several methods of obtaining information about the SIM ICCID, IMEI, provider and other details from my Windows 8.1 tablet.
Note: I had my LTE connection enabled and active at the time I carried out these actions
First option
From Settings - Network & Internet (Wi-Fi, airplane mode, VPN) - Cellular - double-tap the desired cellular connection in the RH panel ("Telstra Mobile - Connected" in my case) - Advanced Options - scroll to Properties section to view the:
IMEI: (also known as the Device Id);
SIM ICCID: (which matches the partial number printed on the actual SIM);
and the Mobile Number: field, which unfortunately is empty on my device as this is a data-only SIM, even though the SIM is referenced/billed by my provider as an Australian mobile cell-phone number !
Second Option
Using the command line there are a number of netsh commands which can be used to show varying views of the mobile interface information.
From a command window prompt ( e.g. c:\Users\{username}\Desktop> )
Issuing the following commands provides varying detail:
The best overview is netsh mbn sh int
From the output of this first command you have the interface (int) value (i.e. Name: ), in my case ...
There is 1 interface on the system:
Name : Cellular {interface (int) name-string}
Description : Sierra Wireless EM7345 4G LTE
etc ...
Physical Address : nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn {16-digit hex MAC address}
etc ...
Device ID : nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn {15-digid IMEI number}
etc ...
So now a series of show (sh) commands can be issued against the particular interface (int)
Connection Information netsh mbn sh connection int="Cellular"
Ready Information netsh mbn sh readyinfo int="Cellular"
SMS Configuration Information netsh mbn sh smsconfig int="Cellular"
Visible Provider Information netsh mbn sh visibleproviders int="Cellular"
Radio State Information netsh mbn sh radio int="Cellular"
Available show (sh) commands for the mbn context are:
show capability - Shows the interface capability information for the given interface.
show connection - Shows the current connection information for the given interface.
show homeprovider - Shows the home provider information for the given interface.
show interfaces - Shows a list of Mobile Broadband interfaces on the system.
show pin - Shows the pin information for the given interface.
show pinlist - Shows the pin list information for the given interface.
show preferredproviders - Shows the preferred providers list for the given interface.
show profiles - Shows a list of profiles configured on the system.
show provisionedcontexts - Shows the provisioned contexts information for the given interface.
show radio - Shows the radio state information for the given interface.
show readyinfo - Shows the ready information for the given interface.
show signal - Shows the signal information for the given interface.
show smsconfig - Shows the SMS configuration information for the given interface.
show tracing - Shows whether Mobile Broadband tracing is enabled or disabled.
show visibleproviders - Shows the visible providers list for the given interface.
Unfortunately neither of these methods was able to return me the "Mobile Number" associated with the data-only SIM
If anyone knows how to do this, please leave a comment
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Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Saturday, 12 April 2014
SAMIL Solar Inverter - NO MORE!
Next Post in this series
Its been a long while since I posted on the subject of our solar power experience and all the hassles I was having with our SAMIL® inverter ... June 2013 in fact!
Why so long?
Well really because I got totally frustrated with the manufacturer not supplying a fix for what I believe amounted to a poorly designed product.
It reached the point I was too scared to touch the inverter because when I did, something else would stop functioning correctly.
After having it "off-the-air" for several short periods where it would go into this perpetual rebooting cycle, taking upto several days to recover, I just gave up and manually recorded each day's generation!
The final straw came following a local power outage when the unit yet-again would not come back on-line for days!
I didn't even bother with the manufacturer, I just went straight to the vendor and (unfortunately for them) gave them my feelings in no uncertain terms, telling them to rip it out and replace it with a different make as this would have been the third SAMIL® we had if they just "replaced" it again.
To-boot, we had lost potentially several hundred dollars of generation since the very first unit was installed!
As it turned out, the vendor themselves had gone away from supplying that brand of inverter!
The vendor contract with the Manufacturer was that they could NOT simply remove a Samil without visiting the site and going through SAMIL® approved recovery procedures. The vendor was very good about fitting us in, but none-the-less we had to wait nearly two weeks (with no generation) before the visit. During that time I resisted the urge to turn the unit on as I'd tried umpteen times and I figured it was best just to leave it in it's non-working state for them to see.
Naturally Murphy's law applied!
The vendor shows up, powers up the inverter and ... it comes on-line!!
Thankfully the tech was thorough, so between us we were able to provide SAMIL® enough evidence that the unit was indeed faulty. (Log entries ... and the firmware had corrupted itself again so it no longer showed the version) This meant SAMIL® gave the OK to remove the unit.
With the unit gone and the vendor no longer supplying SAMIL® units, I was upgraded to a much more expensive model at no cost to me.
We are now the owners of a much physically bigger (and more noisy) AURORA® inverter which has operated flawlessly since Christmas.
Interestingly, although we might simply have had more sun-hours compared to the same time last year, we have consistently produced more power in these three months!
Last year kW totals for Jan, Feb, Mar
This year totals
+148kW, +279kW, +73kW
So far this month (to 11 April) we've generated
vs 212 for the same number of April days last year, that's a further +64kW That's over 500kW more so far this year!
Was there consistently more sun this year or has the new inverter simply been operational more of the time when we're not around to see the old one going off-line??
The one down-side of the new inverter is it's limited interface for obtaining stats from the unit.
It does NOT have either LAN or WiFi connectivity, only RS485 connectivity is available which requires an additional converter to interface to a PC ... which I haven't got around to doing yet!
While this doesn't seem complex, I haven't fully researched this yet, so if anyone reading this post already has their AURORA® inverter connected and collecting statistics, I'd love to hear first-hand, how you went about it.
I note that I made comment about the noise of the new inverter.
The SAMIL® was almost totally silent.
The AURORA® has an inverter buzz which increases in volume as the output increases.
This is really only ever going to be an issue if you have the unit mounted inside the dwelling (as we have), but having said that, it really doesn't bother us at all, even at full-power output as the unit is not near bedrooms or directly adjacent to primary living areas.
One other little quirk of the AURORA® is that because I am still manually collecting statistics off the display panel every few days, selection and display of past history is "cumbersome" in that the start-of-reading date constantly defaults back to 01 JAN {currentYEAR}between each individual reading, so for each daily reading you have to first Escape back to the Statistics menu and scroll all the way to the very bottom entry for User Period and press return to then;
- scroll through the days to the desired start-of-reading date;
- press return;
- scroll through the months to the desired {current} month;
- press return;
- press return again to accept the current year and move to the end-of-reading values;
- scroll through the days to the desired end-of-reading date;
- press return;
- press return to accept the current month;
- press return again to accept the current year and display the output for the chosen date;
- press return to arrive back at the User Period display and do it all again to obtain data for the next day.
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!
Thursday, 18 April 2013
April 16 2013 update to:
Ongoing experience of TRYING to Network our
SAMIL River 5200TL-D Solar Inverter
A very brief update to say I've now had two other Samil owners email me to share their similar stories with me.
To one of the senders I replied ...
It’s nice to know its not just me!
I too have been rung by MikeZhang and have this MASSIVE email trail
between us.
He has taken my early reports to the devs and I too got told
to use VIplant instead of the browser solution ... despite me
explaining at-length that the inverter won’t even stay on the network long
enough to use VIplant ... quite apart from my having already set up an account and
tried VIplant with total non-success.
In short it doesn’t seem like they want to recognise they have a
problem and keep telling me to upgrade the firmware using “the latest” rar
file which they emailed me which I can’t seem to get through to them appears to be an
EARLIER version than what is on the replacement inverter I had swapped-in by my
installer!!!!
Am I frustrated ... you bet I am!
Having paid as much as we have for a supposedly “automated”
system which I have to manually record each day and even then
with the second unit every so often it records some totally erroneous
daily value like 0.04KW on a sunny day or conversely 53KW+ on a partially
cloudy day when the best “real” value I’ve ever seen is like 39.37KW on a
totally sunny day!
I can only hope you are right and with more voices Samil will
finally try and fix the shonky firmware!
Do stay in touch and I’ll try and update the blog when I have
new info
Please Tweet/Facebook/G+ about my blog to get the info out to
other Samil owners
PS
I take it you did see all the pages I put up with all my
research and findings?
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