Connect your SolarEdge inverter in the Chargee app
By connecting your SolarEdge inverter, the Chargee app can view and optimize your solar generation. This helps you avoid feed-in costs and use more of your own generated electricity. Connecting usually only takes a few minutes. Make sure you are near your inverter, as you will need the sticker and the switch on the inverter.
Step 1: Start connecting in the app
Open the Chargee app
Select Devices at the bottom
Select Add device
Choose the category Solar inverters and select SolarEdge
After this, Sparky searches your local network for your inverter. When the page has finished loading, you will see a screen with two options.
Step 2: Choose how to add the inverter
Our advice: scan the QR code if possible. This is the fastest and most reliable method.
Scan the QR code on the sticker: This applies to newer SolarEdge inverters. These often do not have a display on the inverter itself.
There is no QR code: This applies to older models with a display on the inverter.
Step 3: Scan the QR codeTap Scan the QR code on the sticker and hold the QR code within the indicated frame.
Tip: the sticker on a SolarEdge inverter often has several square codes. These are usually Matrix codes, and there is only one QR code among them. You can recognize a QR code by the three larger squares in the corners.
Has the QR code been scanned? Then you will automatically continue to the next step.Step 4: Put the inverter in configuration mode
Find the red switch on the underside of your inverter.
Briefly move the switch to the P position and release it immediately. Do not hold it any longer, as the inverter may end up in a different mode
In the app, tap Inverter is in configuration mode
With this switch, you put the inverter into configuration mode. The inverter then temporarily creates its own wifi network, which your phone connects to in order to set up the connection.
Step 5: Connect to the inverter
Your phone will now ask whether you want to connect to the inverter’s wifi network. Tap Connect.
The app will then automatically go through the following steps:
Connecting to inverter
Configuring inverter for local access
Connecting inverter to Chargee server
Reading out inverter
Keep the app open and stay close to the inverter until all steps are completed.
Do you see the screen “Success! Your SolarEdge has been successfully connected”? Then your inverter is connected. Tap Close to return to the app.
Requirements and functionality
Your SolarEdge inverter must be connected to the internet
Sparky and your inverter must be on the same network (the same IP range). Is the connection not working? Then see this article about double NAT
A VPN within a network must be switched off during the connection.
Make sure your SolarEdge inverter has a suitable firmware version. This is needed for a stable local connection (Modbus TCP) between your inverter and the Chargee app. Not sure whether your firmware is suitable, or does the connection drop regularly? Then ask your installer to check this and update the firmware if necessary.