Manual

Welcome to GbbOptimizer (vel. GbbVictronWeb) program.

To start using program you should:

- Create 'Plant': Plant is your one Victron system (Cerbo GX or other GX module) or one Deye system. 

  • Press "Add new plant with Victron" if you have Victron system (with or without HomeAssistant) 
  • Press "Add new plant with inverter Deye connected to DeyeCloud" if you have Deye Hybryd inverter connected to DeyeCloud
  • Press "Add new plant with Solarman" if you have Deye Hybryd inverter connected to program Solarman (and don't want to use HomeAssistant)
  • Press "Add new plant with Solarman" if you have Other Hybryd inverter connected to program Solarman and you know how to set registers for different modes from program.
  • Press "Add new plant with HomeAssistant" if you have Deye Hybryd inverter connected to HomeAsistant (with or without SolarAssistant) OR other Hybryd inverter connected directly to HomeAssistant.
  • Etc
  • If you have SofarSolar inverter: (1) Press 'Plant with DongleDirect (Deye, SofarSolar)' (2) at the end process also these steps: DongleDirect konfiguracja
  • If you have Deye inverters in a Master-Slave configuration, then (1) press 'Plant with Solarman' (2) add the Master as the main inverter and the Slaves as additional ones (in the Plant parameters)

- Fill in all fields (at least the ones with an asterisk *) and continue with FastSetup. After fill in all fields press 'Make Changes'
- In 'Prices' module: you should setup your purchase and sell prices.
- In 'Profile of Loads' module: you can enter manually your house AC Loads or import it from Plant

After that:

  • Plant is in testing mode. To start sending setup to Plant you should  switch off 'Test mode' in 'Battery Forecast' module
  • 'Optimizer based on prices' is selected
  • It is best to wait a week for the load profile to update and for the correction factor to be calculated in the PV forecast.
  • Only after a week turn off  'testing mode'

Most important things to check:

  • If prices are correct. Remember to enter transportation costs for purchase prices. 
  • If PV forecast is correct. If not you can check other PV forecast source.
  • If Load profile is correct. If you don't want enter manualy profile than you should wait week to all get data.

Best practice

  • Patience. The program teaches patience.
  • change 'forecast.solar' PV forecast source to 'solcast.com' (first you must create free 'Home' acount there, one account for max 2 PV Fields)
  • the fewer additional options selected in the optimizer parameters, the greater the profits
  • setup MaxSOC=90% to have buffer for wrong PV forecast. And setup 'List of days of month (separator: comma) when 'Max battery SOC %' will be 100% (for about 2h)' to (for example): 1, 15 to sometimes reach 100% for the good of the battery.
  • If HomeAssistant is importing data from the inverter, set "update_interval" to at least 20 sec. Otherwise Solarman clashes with HomeAssistant. ( Discord ), Albo przejdź z Solarmana na GbbConnect2.