UNSOLVED 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.