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SMA Solar Technology AG 10 System Management
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10 System Management
10.1 Adding or Replacing Devices
You can add devices to your Sunny Home Manager system or replace devices.
You have to capture the new device with the Sunny Home Manager. The configuration wizard in
Sunny Portal assists you in capturing, adding and replacing devices.
If you need to replace the Sunny Home Manager, you must use the PV System Setup Assistant
(see Section 10.3, page 83) .
General requirements:
☐ You must have the user role Installer or PV system administrator (see Section 13.1 "Users
and User Rights", page 108).
Requirements for SMA devices:
☐ For new SMA BLUETOOTH devices:
– The NetID of the PV system must be set on the new SMA BLUETOOTH device.
– The BLUETOOTH LED on the new inverter or on the new BLUETOOTH Piggy-Back or
BLUETOOTH Piggy-Back Off-Grid in the new inverter must be glowing blue.
☐ For the new SMA device, the default password 1111 for the Installer user group or the system
password of the existing system must be set (see Section 14.3.2 "Changing the System
Password", page 112).
☐ The new device must be in operation.
☐ The data request interval must be set to Automatic (see Section 8.7).
Device replacement: The old device must NOT be deleted, but deactivated
If you delete the device that you wish to replace from Sunny Portal, all the device data is
irretrievably deleted.
• To retain the data of the old device in Sunny Portal, do not delete the old device,
but deactivate it (see Section 10.2).
• Add the new device as an additional device to the Sunny Home Manager system
(system extension).
Smart appliances cannot be replaced
Smart appliances which communicate via a data exchange protocol with the Sunny Home
Manager cannot be replaced in Sunny Portal.
• To retain the data of the old load in Sunny Portal, do NOT delete the old load, but
deactivate it (see Section 10.2).
• Add the new load as an additional device to the Sunny Home Manager system (system
extension).