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Adding Devices on the EMS Portal
This article will guide you on how to link all the devices connected to your EMS Panel so they can all be monitored remotely using your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or your desktop computer that is connected to the internet.
Steps to follow:
- Add your first device.
- View the device Dashboard.
1. Add your device
When the EMS panel has been set up and has internet connectivity, the next big step for us is to link your first device on the Portal.
- On the home page navigate to Devices.
- In the top right hand corner, select Link Device.
- Select the gateway you want to add the device to (You can search for the gateway using the last 3 characters of its serial ID).
- Select the device type (E.g Growcol MPS Inverter)
- Select the slave ID of the device.
- Give the device a name and description E.G (‘EM Wynberg MPS’ and ‘MPS500 at EM Wynberg with 180kWp PV’)
- Configure the network mode (refer to the “EMS Network Mode Configuration” table at end of page).
If you are using one of the ports labelled LAN1-3, use an IP address in the 192.168.35.1 – 255 range.- NB!! Please keep in mind the following IP Addresses are reserved and MUST NOT be used:
192.168.35.1 192.168.35.41 192.168.35.4 192.168.35.42 192.168.35.5 192.168.35.43
- NB!! Please keep in mind the following IP Addresses are reserved and MUST NOT be used:
EMS Network Mode Configuration Table:
2. View the device Dashboard.
- In order to view the device. You will need to click on the Dashboard button.
- If the device is correctly configured and wired into the panel and its’ network configuration has been set up then you will be able to read data from the device as seen below.
