Introduction
Onboarding your SPIE connections to your Farsight® account is an easy process that can be completed within a few minutes. This allows you to reduce the onboarding time from weeks and months to a few minutes.
At the moment, SPIE connections can only be established on request. Reach out to us for any assistance in onboarding SPIE
Requirements
Farsight® Admin account
Pre-shared Key
Remote IP
Remote Subnet
OPC Server
Username and Password
Certificate File
Private Key File
Adding a Connection, Sites and Assets in Farsight®
Once you have the requirements above, you will need to use the onboarding wizard to add a connection and then add your sites and assets.
Go to: Asset Manager > Asset Manager > Add Connection
1. Select Solar
2. Click on the Next button
Log in and Connect
1. From the dropdown select SPIE
2. Check the Network Requirements. You need to ensure that you have at least 1 Mbps upload speed, 2 Mbps download speed and 100 ms latency to use Farsight® effectively
3. Enter the Pre-Shared Key
4. Add your Remote IP
5. Enter your Remote Subnet
6. Click on Next
7. Check your Farsight Subnet
8. Confirm Farsight VPN IP
9. Click Next to move forward
Once your connection is added, you will be redirected to the Asset Manager page.
Add an Asset
1. Click on the Connection
2. Click Add Assets
3. Choose the assets you want to add
4. Assign Sensor to each asset otherwise, irradiance data will not be available until a sensor is selected
5. Choose to Import Data for desired time
6. Select an existing Cabin for your asset
7. Add a new cabin by adding a name in the New Cabin field
8. Click + Add new to add the cabin
Note: Scroll down to add Pyranometer to finish the process
9. Click Finish when done and you will be taken to your Assets page
Configure Assets
1. To configure your inverter, click on Pencil button in the Custom Data
2. Associate Pyranometer that you added earlier
3. Click Save
Once you have associated Pyranometer with your inverter, the yellow “missing sensor” message should disappear.