Before you start
- Your Pytes battery is installed and running normally.
- You have a USB phone charger (5 V, 1 A is plenty) and a free socket near the battery.
- Your home Wi-Fi reaches the battery location on 2.4 GHz. If your phone gets two bars there, you are fine.
1. Find the console port
On the front panel of the Pytes battery you will find several RJ45 sockets. The one we need is the console port, labelled Console or RS232 depending on the series. Leave the CAN and RS485 sockets alone: they carry the conversation between your battery and your inverter and must stay connected as they are.
With several batteries in parallel, connect the box to the battery that holds the master position (usually the one linked to the inverter). Tell us your layout when you order and we will confirm.
2. Plug in the cable and power
Connect the supplied cable (marked BAT) between the console port and the RJ45 socket of the box, then plug the USB-C cable into the box and the charger. The screen lights up within a few seconds.
The cable carries only low-voltage data. Never connect the box to anything else on the battery, and never open the battery.
3. Join your Wi-Fi
On the first start the box creates its own Wi-Fi network. Join it from your phone, and a setup page opens by itself. Pick your home network, type its password, then choose the password that will protect your dashboard. The box restarts and connects.
4. Open the dashboard
Type http://moniwatt.local in your browser, or the IP address shown at the bottom of the screen. Log in with the password you just set. After a few seconds the first readings from the Pytes BMS appear.
If the screen shows no battery data
- Check that the cable is in the console port and not in a CAN or RS485 port.
- Wake the battery up if it is in sleep mode (some models stop the console when idle for a long time).
- Open the diagnostics page of the dashboard and send us what it shows: we reply quickly.
Next step: bring the data into Home Assistant.