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Product overview

SolarAutopilot is independent software that reads your inverter and battery, shows everything live in your browser, and acts on it with supported controls, price-aware charging and your own rules. No other platform is required.

Who it is for

Homeowners

Technically confident owners who want a clear view of their system and more control over charging.

Installers

Professionals who want a dependable monitoring and management unit to add to customer installations.

Solar professionals

People working with Growatt systems who need flexible, practical energy management.

What you receive

The box comes with hardware and software ready. The image is the same software for your own Raspberry Pi.

The energy system

The SolarAutopilot box sits next to your inverter and reads your whole system. Pick a time of day, then select any component to see what it does.

Simulated values · not from a real installation

BMS dataRS485SolarAutopilotENERGY MANAGEMENTRS485

13:00 — Peak generation. The battery charges at full rate and the remaining surplus is exported to the grid.

Inside the dashboard

SolarAutopilot · Energy dashboard

Demo data

Overview

Showing illustrative values · Midday 13:00

Solar

0.0kW

generation

Home load

0.0kW

consumption

Grid

0.0kW

exporting

Battery

0.0kW

charging

Power · last 24 h

hover to inspect

  • Solar
  • Home load
  • Grid
  • Battery
-20246kW00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00

Grid + import / − export · Battery + charging / − discharging

0%

SoC

Battery

State of charge

BMS link · demo

Inverter 1

demo
Grid charge
Disabled
Energy pattern
Load first
Charger source
Solar first
Output source
Solar / battery / utility

Energy history · 7 days

kWh

  • Produced
  • Consumed
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

Interface concept · illustrative data

Features

Features marked Available exist in the current SolarAutopilot software. Everything else is labelled honestly.
Available

Live monitoring

Solar, home, grid and battery power on one live dashboard in your browser.

Available

Energy history

Every reading is stored, so you can look back over days and weeks, with charts for deeper analysis.

Available

Inverter charging control

Change supported inverter settings, such as grid charging and source priority, from one place.

Available

Price-aware charging

Uses Tibber dynamic tariffs, or public market prices as a fallback, to decide when charging from the grid makes sense.

Available

Learning charging engine

Combines solar and consumption forecasts with a learning policy to plan battery charging. No savings figure is claimed.

Available

Rules & automation

Build your own rules on battery level, price or time, with a history of every rule that fired.

Available

Alerts

Warnings in the dashboard and via Telegram when something needs your attention.

Available

Grid carbon intensity

See how clean your grid electricity is, next to your own energy flows.

In development

Direct Growatt connection

Connect the SolarAutopilot box straight to a supported Growatt inverter over RS485, with no extra bridge.

In development

Virtual BMS

Lets a supported BMS present its battery data to a supported inverter.

Before you purchase

  • Your inverter make and model (initial focus: Growatt)
  • Your battery and BMS make and model, if you have one
  • Access to your inverter’s communication port
  • A home network near the installation location
  • A confirmed compatibility check from us

Customer account

Monitoring lives in your customer account

Products are chosen here. Your customer account and solar dashboard are on our SolarBMS customer platform at login.carbonoz.com. Creating an account does not buy a product, and a new account shows data only once your installation has been connected to it.

11 Get started

Choose the preconfigured box or the software image, check your equipment with us, and be first in line when SolarAutopilot goes on sale.