MMM-solar showing "Loading" and is doing nothing .... did someone get it running?

MWel1977

I’m having trouble to get the module “MMM-Solar” to work as it should.
There are only 3 things needed to configure the module and I have all 3 of them in the config.js file. The API-key, my userID and my systemID.
But on running the MM2 the module only displays “Loading…”.
I feel like I’m missing a step! I feel like I need to connect my Enphase system to my API-account. But I have no idea how or even if that is needed.

Is there someone who got this module to work and wants to help me?
Or is there a way to get in touch with the module creator so I can ask him what I’m doing wrong?

sdetweil

restart the mirror with
npm start dev
to open the developers console, then select the console tab,

are there any errors shown?

MWel1977

@sdetweil … WOW!
Didn’t know about this! Looks nice!
But back to the problem…in the console tab I can see some errors but not about the Solar module. There are 2 warnings that the Solar module got a notification from another module but don’t think that’s a problem.
I can see 3 errors for the modules: MMM-Buienradar, weatherforcast (openweathermap is unauthorized yet it works fine) and for my crypto coins chart (it can’t find cryptocoin picture/logo’s in a specific folder).
So the Solar-module should work fine looking at this.

sdetweil

ok, can u find the console window where you did npm start dev, and see if there are errors reported there? alt-tab, should bring up a list of windows, so you can select the right console window

MWel1977

@sdetweil
I’m not seeing any errors but I see something strange…
Down at the bottomit says:
"…
Sockets connected & moduls started …
Launching application.
…“
Then a bit futher down a line reads:
”…
Notification: GET_SOLAR Payload: [object object]
…"

Looks like it’s missing data that it needs to find somewere. Am I right?

sdetweil

@mwel1977 thats just bad logging

edit the node_helper.js file in the MMM-Solar folder, at the end

after this

if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
					var jsonData = JSON.parse(body);
				        self.sendSocketNotification("SOLAR_DATA", jsonData);
				}

add this

				else{
				   if(error!=null){
					console.log("api request error ="+ JSON.stringify(error));
				   }
				   else{
					console.log("api response code error ="+ response.statusCode);
				   }
				}

i get this

Notification: GET_SOLAR Payload: [object Object]
api response code error =401

401 is authentication failed

sdetweil

I submitted that code to the MMM-Solar author for the future

bhepler

@sdetweil - Just FYI for everyone: 401 is an Unauthorized Request error message. For some reason, your combination of API key, userID and systemID are not working.

sdetweil

@bhepler I know. I don’t have a key. So it should fail. I was just giving an example of the improved error reporting to help out

MWel1977

@sdetweil I’ll try it tonight.
Been busy last couple of days (sadly not with my MM2).
But I think it has something to do with the API not being able to connect to my solarpanel system. Like I mentionent before.