SMA SUNNY VIEW User manual

SunnyView-BA-BEN121211 | Version 1.1
EN
Device for plant monitoring
SUNNYVIEW
User Manual

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Table of contents
1 Information on this Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 Intended Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 Safety Precaution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3 Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.1 Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2 Type Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.1 Menu Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2 Operating the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5 "Home" Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1 Layout of the "Home" Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2 Header layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3 Plant Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3.1 Slides without SMA CT Meter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.3.2 Slide with SMA CT Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.4 Online Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6 "Charts" Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7 "Events" Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8 "Settings" Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.1 Adjusting the Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.2 Disabling the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.3 Setting the Scaling of the Daily Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.4 Setting the Error Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.5 Setting the Key Clicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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8.6 Identifying the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.7 Setting the Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.8 Country Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
8.9 Setting the Date and Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
8.10 Searching for a New Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
8.11 Adding a New Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
8.12 Replacing an Existing Device with a New Device . . . . . . . . . . 29
8.13 Changing the Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
8.14 Changing the Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
8.15 What to Do in Case of Lost Plant Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
8.16 Changing the Device Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
8.17 Displaying Connected Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.18 Setting Up a WLAN Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
8.19 Checking and Setting Up a Bluetooth Connection . . . . . . . . . . 32
8.20 Configuring Online Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.21 Changing the Duration of the Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.22 Selecting PV Visualisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.23 Activating Demo Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
9 Maintenance and Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
9.1 Safe removal of the SDHC card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
9.2 Performing an Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
9.3 Restoring Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
9.4 Generating a Back-up File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
9.5 Restoring Sunny View Data from Back-up File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
10 Decommissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10.1 Decommissioning the Sunny View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10.2 Disposing of the Sunny View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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11 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
12 Technical data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
13 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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1 Information on this Manual
Validity
This manual is valid for the Sunny View type VIEW-10.GR1.
The type designation can be found on the type label on the back of the Sunny View.
Target group
This manual is intended for end users.
Additional information
Additional information is available at www.SMA.de/en.
Symbols
Title Document type
Sunny View Quick reference guide
SMA CT Meter*
* For Japan only
Installation manual
Symbol Explanation
Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death
or serious injury.
Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death
or serious injury.
Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in minor
or moderate injury.
Indicates a situation which, if not avoided, can result in property damage.
Indicates information that is important for a specific topic or objective, but
is not safety-relevant.
 Indicates a requirement for meeting a specific goal.
 Desired result.
✖ A problem that could occur.

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Typographies
Nomenclature
The following nomenclature is used in this manual:
Typography Usage Example
"light" • Display messages
• Parameters
•Connections
•Slots
•Text boxes
• Enter your e-mail address
and password in the
"E-mail" and "Password"
text boxes.
bold • Elements to be selected.
• Elements to be entered.
• Enable the dynamic
option.
>• Series of elements that are to be
selected on the software user
interface or display.
• Select Settings > Date.
[Button/Key]•Buttons
•Keys
• Select [Next].
Complete designation Designation in this manual
System comprising PV array, devices to monitor
plants, and inverters
Plant
SMA Bluetooth® Wireless Technology Bluetooth

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Abbreviations
Abbreviation Description Explanation
NetID Network Identification Identification number for SMA Bluetooth
network
MSL Mean Sea Level -
PUK Personal Unlocking Key Code number, which enables access to
SMA Bluetooth devices, after the loss of
the password
PV Photovoltaics -
SDHC Secure Digital High Capacity Memory card with a storage capacity
up to
WLAN
Wi-Fi
Wireless Local Area Network -

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2Safety
2.1 Intended Use
The Sunny View is a communication device that receives, displays and stores data from
SMA inverters.
The Sunny View is only suitable for indoor use.
The Sunny View may only be used with accessories that are produced or recommended by
SMA Solar Technology AG.
The data collected by Sunny View on the amount of power generated by your plant may deviate from
the electricity meter data.
• The Sunny View data cannot be used for billing purposes.
The Sunny View may only be used in accordance with the enclosed documentation. Any other use
can result in personal injury or property damage.
• The Sunny View is only to be operated using the supplied plug-in power supply and in the
voltage range intended for this (see Section 12"Technical data",page45).
The enclosed documentation is an integral part of this product.
• Read and follow the documentation for the proper and optimum use of the Sunny View.
• Keep the documentation (quick reference guide and user manual CD) in a convenient place for
future reference.
2.2 Safety Precaution
Preventing unauthorised access
Plants are delivered with "0000" as the default password. In other words, unauthorised users can gain
access to the data of the plant.
• Change the default plant password (see Section 8.14).

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3 Product Description
3.1 Sunny View
The Sunny View is a communication device that receives, displays and stores data from SMA inverters.
The Sunny View displays plant data in the form of slides on the display.
The Sunny View can be connected to the Internet via a WLAN. If there is a connection to the Internet,
the Sunny View can display data from Facebook and Twitter, as well as newsfeeds.
Figure1: Sunny View design
The display is used for operation and displays.
The Sunny View communicates with inverters and the SMA CT Meter (for Japan only) via Bluetooth.
The Sunny View saves plant data in its internal memory. If an SDHC card is available, save the plant
data on the SDHC card.
Position Designation
A Tabletop stand
BDisplay
C Grid connection
DSDHC card slot