SOLARMAN Smart Reviews

Very basic UI, no information of load or consumption against production

It’s not updating frequently.
I need to close and reopen it a few times to update it.

SOLARMANSmart is nearly impossible to set up, it took hours and dozens of tries before it finally synced up.
The so called “real time” indicator on SOLARMANSmart lags by 10 or 15 mins. Real crap in my opinion.

Individual array monitoring data table is broken (invisible) or has been removed entirely, at the time of writing. I highly recommend bringing back this feature.

App needs to automatically refresh or simply add a Refresh button.

Also there is no easy way to program when I want to turn on or off Grid.

Support does not seem to answer emails.

You can no longer see how much power you produced over time. SOLARMANSmart is actually not very useful. I’m not sure why they changed this and deleted that ability but I would look for other places to get solar power and information.

I have an iPhone 13 mini. And I can’t even log into SOLARMANSmart because it won’t allow the keyboard to descend after you type in your email. I can’t get past this screen. This makes using/understanding my whole solar system impossible and is so frustrating. This is such an app development rookie error. Honestly.

Really enjoyed SOLARMANSmart until update - now the graphs (in expanded view where you can change the parameters) no longer fit a phone screen - and it’s annoying having to scroll and not see entire graph in one screen. I hope this will be changed by next update.

We were very excited to have an app to remotely monitor our system. Unfortunately, I if the system disconnects for any reason, I.e. power burst, WiFi disconnects, you have to be present to reconnect the logger for monitoring. Severely finished value of a remote monitoring system if you have to be there to reconnect, and it cannot remember previous configuration. When it’s connected, it’s pretty sweet!

One of the primary things I wanted from SOLARMANSmart was email and/or IOS notifications of grid failure and return. I don’t think that is a lot to ask, especially since SOLARMANSmart has the data already. It appears that in order to enable that, one must submit email address and phone number. That’s fine except they don’t accept Thai phones. Isn’t that special!
It doesn’t appear there is any support. About a dozen messages over two days have not produced a response. Four stars??? Seriously???

I find this application somewhat complex and not accurate as to each reading . Do not know if there is an update. Kind of obsolete for todays modern technologies.

After 6 minutes it will show updated data after refresh SOLARMANSmart

‘Real time’ update is not real time. It is also, most of the time, different than the summary page! and ‘Device’ page!

This is definitely not real time. Sometimes I need more information. Fault codes aren’t always quick enough. When I’m struggling with faulty Lion Inverters SOLARMANSmart isn’t fast enough. Probably my real problem is with Lion and not SOLARMANSmart but I’m not quite sure.

SOLARMANSmart is nice and user friendly but the battery percentage shown on SOLARMANSmart is not accurate generally it is way more than what actually is like SOLARMANSmart shows 62% whereas the battery is 30%.. the connection is ok as everything else works fine.. Thank you for a nice app and appreciate if this can be resolved

App is somewhat glitchy, especially with updating the information from energy production. When it says “updated 3 minutes ago” the information displayed is not related to the time. Requires constant drag down on the screen to refresh information. Already had a situation where at the end it erased all information for that day.

SOLARMANSmart is ok. Works as published, but really needs some UI improvements. It really was decent 8 years ago. But for 2023, it looks aged.

0). Data isn’t pushed.. you have to manually refresh each time you want updated data. Which is an issue due to next 2 problems

1). Parameters staying as selected. If you want to see other available parameters, you have to manually select them. Then, when you refresh, to get new data, you loose your settings

3). Each day, the scale of the parameters is different based on usage or generation. So when you are scrolling between days. It “looks” like you generated the same, when in fact, SOLARMANSmart is changing the scales on you. I realize some people want to see “pretty” curves, but I’d prefer to see apples to apples comparison. Not just maximize viewing. This could be a setting as “persistence”.

In general I am glad to have an app to check on our solar production and energy use, but SOLARMANSmart could be improved. I may sound a bit negative here, as I hope the developer will make an effort to improve this otherwise useful app.
1. The energy use and consumption should be in real time. It is always btwn 10-20 min delayed. It would be helpful in order to relate to our particular use of certain appliances etc.
2. The ‘statistics’ bar graph shows as a default energy use and production. Would be nice if it could remember what an individual user wants to see in that graph (such as power purchase or SOC, just to name a few).
3. In the last update that bar graph becomes not cell phone friendly once I choose to display more parameters (too vertically stretched out).

Thanks for your good work and hope it can be tweaked.

It would be food if this is real time monitoring

It is very confusing SOLARMANSmart screen is crowded and you can’t see all the information when I scroll back and forth side to side some times you louse on time info and you have to start over on app the production and consumption are backwards very confusing I hope that you update SOLARMANSmart to make it more user friendly

The apps gives good info however the real time stats needs to be “real time”. Currently it lags. Also the Online Help crashes SOLARMANSmart . Will get a 5 star once these are fixed.

I have been using this for over a year. I use about ten time during each day. Not once has this application let me down. It has all the required functions and stores all statically data. It would be great if it had a feature where this stats could be downloaded for further analysis. Highly recommend

App seems to work well and gives me some nice data to track. A couple features that could be useful:

- Ability to adjust how often it syncs, I believe it’s always set to 5 minutes and I can’t find a way to change it.
- Ability to export data

We have noticed that you have included a new feature in your last release by adding the remote control function for the Deye inverter so that we can Read/modify the deye parameters remotely.
Today we have also noticed that you have removed this feature. Can we know why?
It is a very important feature that gives your app an edge on other loggers.
Hope you will add it back asap.

Regards,
RT

We purchased the battery pack from Brent at NeoVolta and am extremely happy with their service. Brent is reliable and experienced.

Being able to monitor all the way here in the US is very helpful and reassuring. We can control and budget the consumption and maximize the battery use. Thank you.

They are always there when I have a question or concern, plus SOLARMANSmart is super easy to follow and I am 78 years old!!!

Really I am thankful to China and Solar facilitating company who is providing better services to us and update their system time and again hopefully they will do more better in future

everything is great about SOLARMANSmart except the battery percentage in not accurate

Having the very first solar system in our barangay, getting solar power is a necessity as we are the brown out capital if the Philippines…Solarman makes it easy for us to track everything we need to use piwer generated efficiently…thank you Solarman for the ease of use, you makeour solar experience even better!

Very simple to use product with intuitive interface.

If you just need to see your production and use, SOLARMANSmart makes it easy. I use it with Deye inverters that I installed in my mothers’ house in the Philippines.

Now I monitor it so I know it’s working for her while she’s there.

Brilliant product!

Love using SOLARMANSmart it gives us update even if we’re away frim home

Everything is great but the flow chart is always delayed for 2 hours

There was Bettery Status in Old Version Of App Please Bring It Back Thanks

Its a very good software, but plz if u could update it and make an option to choose the AMP instead of KW coz each country is different than the other, but still in general its a very good software 👍🏼

SOLARMANSmart is helping me in monitoring Solar production and electricity consumption at home

Nice app

Off grid island on the pacific coast of Panama. Solarman is a delight to use and access the solar array/charge from anywhere via smartphone 👏👏

I had been accessing Solarman Smart through the browser on my PC. It was working absolutely splendidly, but all of sudden it appeared to lose the connection between my Solarman ID and my installation - every time I try now it just wants me to re-enter the details of my 'Plant'. One of the reviews listed here has been a huge help for me trying to work out WHY it happened: apparently if either there is a power cut or a loss of Wifi then this will happen. I have been affected by BOTH a power cut and a loss of Wifi. What I don't know is how to reconnect. Any help out there?