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Solar Monitoring - Integration Guide

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Overview

The Solar Monitoring integration enables customers with Enphase or SolarEdge inverters to monitor home solar panel energy production and consumption in the Alarm.com app.

Customers can quickly view the day's current and total production from the home screen. The Solar screen allows them to track data for the day, week, last 30 days, and the last 12 months and view estimated savings, empowering them to make smarter decisions about home energy use.

Solar App Screenshots with Explanations

For an introductory video about Solar Monitoring, refer to the article Interested in Solar Monitoring?.

Supported equipment
  • Professionally installed Enphase inverters
  • Professionally installed Solar Edge inverters
Safety precautions

Only licensed professionals should handle solar equipment and installation.

Additional considerations
  • Either Enphase or SolarEdge can be added to a customer account, not both.
  • A single account can only have one inverter, not multiple.
  • A customer’s solar panel system can only be linked to one Alarm.com account.
  • Customers with CT clamp consumption data with Energy Monitoring and Solar Integration with no consumption data through the Enphase or SolarEdge API will see the CT clamp consumption data in the solar feature screen.

Connect Solar Panels to a customer account

At this time, both customers and service providers will need to coordinate and exchange information to successfully connect solar to the account.

 
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Note: After the initial integration of the Enphase account is complete, the solar card will only appear when logged into the Alarm.com app.

  1. Log in to the Alarm.com customer website.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Click Manage Devices.
  4. Click Add Device.
  5. Click Solar.
  6. Follow the directions in the Wizard to Log in to the customer's Enphase account and connect it to Alarm.com.

Note: If a solar account has not already been integrated with Alarm.com, the Enphase account can also be connected by tapping Connect to Account on the Solar card.

  1. Log in to the Alarm.com app.
  2. Tap Menu.
  3. Tap Add Device.
  4. Tap Solar.
  5. Follow the directions in the Wizard to Log in to the customer's Enphase account and connect it to Alarm.com.

SolarEdge can be integrated with Alarm.com using either the API Key and Site ID or directly from the Alarm.com customer website or Alarm.com app.

Request the API Key and Site ID from the customer

To find this information, the customer must follow these steps (also included in this YouTube Video):

  1. Log in to the SolarEdge account.
  2. Click Admin at the top of the screen.
  3. Click Site Access.
  4. Click Access Control.
  5. Scroll down to API Access. Click to agree to the Terms & Conditions. This will generate an API Key.
     
    Important: The key is not valid until the customer clicks Save.
     
  6. The Site ID can be found just beneath the API Key.

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Note: If an error appears when linking the SolarEdge account, use the following troubleshooting steps:

  1. Generate a New API key.
  2. Save.
  3. Input the new API Key value. 
Connect the SolarEdge solar account
  1. Log in to the Alarm.com customer website.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Click Manage Devices.
  4. Click Add Device.
  5. Click Solar.
  6. Follow the directions in the Wizard to Log in to the customer's SolarEdge account and connect it to Alarm.com.

Note: If a solar account has not already been integrated with Alarm.com, the SolarEdge account can also be connected by tapping Connect to Account on the Solar card.

  1. Log in to the Alarm.com app.
  2. Tap Menu.
  3. Tap Add Device.
  4. Tap Solar.
  5. Follow the directions in the Wizard to Log in to the customer's SolarEdge account and connect it to Alarm.com.