Connect to an SMA PV system
Connect and control solar plants remotely.
What you’ll need
- Your API credentials and a Tenant or Collective ID
- The plant ID for the PV system
- The email address of the plant owner
Locating the plant ID
In SMA’s Sunny Portal, the plant ID is part of the URL when navigating to the corresponding plant or when clicking on the PV System Logbook navigation tree item. The plant ID may not be visible in the UI itself.
Let’s get started
Start the onboarding process
Create an Entity Onboarding Request, setting the to PV
and to SMA
.
You’ll also need to specify the plant ID as its , and the plant owner’s address.
Lastly, you may need to include either a or to complete the request.
Check for required actions
In most cases, the onboarding request will have the Pending
until a required is completed.
SMA always requires an action of Consent
. This means that the action has to be completed through SMA’s website or by responding to a notification they have sent to the plant owner. Such actions also contain a leading to more information on how to complete the action.
Track the onboarding status
Periodically poll the Onboarding API to check if the status of your request has updated to Succeeded
. Once it’s complete, you’ll find the newly created Entity and its ID in the object.
You can reference the when using our Readings API and the Commands API.
Work with your newly created Entity
Tip: Take note of your Entity ID before you get started with our APIs.