Determining The Mounting / Installation Location For Bluetooth Pv Plants; Information On Sma Bluetooth; Determining The Mounting / Installation Location; Extending The Bluetooth Network With The Sma Bluetooth Repeater - SMA SUNNY WEBBOX Bluetooth Wireless Technology Installation Manual

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5.2 Determining the Mounting / Installation Location for Bluetooth
PV Plants
5.2.1 Information on SMA Bluetooth
The devices in your PV plant can communicate and network with a communication device via
Bluetooth. To ensure that the devices communicate with each other and are interlinked, they have to
be set to the same NetID. The NetID is a unique identification number of your PV plant. Thus, the NetID
distinguishes your PV plant from other PV plants.
Determining the NetID for your PV plant.
If your PV plant does not have a NetID yet, you must first determine a free NetID using the
Sunny Explorer software or using the Sunny Beam with Bluetooth and then set this in the
devices of your PV plant.
At the present time, NetID 1 is not supported by the Sunny WebBox.
A direct connection to an individual SMA Bluetooth device via NetID 1 is currently only
possible with the Sunny Explorer software or with the Sunny Beam.
Change the NetID of the Sunny WebBox to the NetID of your PV plant (NetID 2 to NetID F).
5.2.2 Determining the Mounting / Installation Location
Before you mount the Sunny WebBox, you should determine the connection quality at the mounting /
installation location of the Sunny WebBox to your PV plant. The connection quality can be checked
using the Sunny Explorer or the Sunny Beam with Bluetooth. Refer to the user manuals of the relevant
devices. You can change the connection quality by changing the distances of the Bluetooth devices to
one another.
5.2.3 Extending the Bluetooth Network with the SMA Bluetooth
Repeater
The SMA Bluetooth Repeater can help you extend the wireless range of your Bluetooth network. An
SMA Bluetooth Repeater installed on the range limit of the Bluetooth network transmits the data traffic
of the network in its own radio range. This technology enables the setting up of Bluetooth networks
which cover a much larger area than would be possible using the Sunny WebBox alone.
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