LuxPower monitoring with PVBiz

LuxPower connects with a plain username and password for the LuxPower portal. Either the installer’s login or the homeowner’s own login works, and plants that have been shared with a homeowner account are read the same way. PVBiz stores the password encrypted, never shows it again.

What PVBiz reads

For each plant PVBiz reads the master inverter. That gives solar power, load consumption and essential load, battery power, state of charge, voltage and temperature, grid frequency, status and net power, inverter and radiator temperatures, and today’s yield, usage, import, export, charge and discharge, along with lifetime yield. Live readings poll about every five minutes and energy totals refresh hourly. Totals cover solar, load, export, import, charge and discharge.

History

LuxPower has one of the deepest backfills: when a plant is connected PVBiz pulls totals for every year the portal reports, with no fixed floor, and skips months it already holds. That makes analysis and seasonal comparisons useful from the start.

What LuxPower does not give PVBiz

There is no per-string MPPT data and no per-phase data, and generator power is not read, so rules on those cannot be built. Only the master inverter on a plant is read. Some LuxPower devices carry no coordinates, and where a plant has no time zone its totals are skipped. LuxPower’s own alarms are not imported.

Alerts and control

The standard alerts run on LuxPower: grid loss, low battery, inverter fault and offline, and loss of communication, plus custom thresholds on the metrics above. PVBiz is read-only on LuxPower, and Sunsynk is the only brand where it can change inverter settings.