Use case · Maintenance

Ask Alexandria which plants are failing, why and what to do.

You maintain plants from several brands and each one has its own portal. Alarms arrive scattered, in each portal’s own jargon and codes, and nobody knows which one is urgent. With Suntropy Connect, Alexandria reads all your brands and answers you in a single conversation.

Reads the portals of

Alarm watch

All your alarms, in one place and in order.

Turn on the brands you want to watch. Suntropy reads their alarms periodically, every 10 to 30 minutes depending on what each manufacturer’s API allows, and keeps them for up to 30 days after they close. It flags new and closed ones, and keeps track of which ones you have read.

  • “What new alarms have come in since yesterday?”
  • “Which plants haven’t reported for more than a day?”
  • “Only the critical and major ones.”

One scale for every brand

  1. Critical
  2. Major
  3. Minor
  4. Warning

Each manufacturer classifies its alarms its own way. Suntropy normalises them to critical, major, minor and warning, and every alarm comes with the cause and the recommendation given by the manufacturer itself.

Monitoring overview

62 plants, four brands, one question.

This is how Alexandria answers with the real data of a maintenance account with five connections. We have removed the names of customers and plants.

app.suntropy.ai
Alexandria
Suntropy Connect · 5 connections
Read-only
How are my plants doing today?
Checkedlist_connectionsget_monitoring_summarylist_alarms

You have 62 plants from 4 brands across 5 connections, 1,047 kWp in total. 48 are healthy, 4 have an active fault and 10 are not reporting. This month they have produced 14,194 kWh, counting the 53 plants that report monthly data.

62plants
48healthy
4with a fault
10not reporting
ConnectionPlantskWpHealthyFaultNo commskWh month
Huawei · account 127824221410.653
Huawei · account 21711912232.819
SolisCloud1156713722
Deye645600—
Sungrow14100—
Total621.0474841014.194

What I would look at first

  1. Major
    15 kW plant (Huawei, account 2): alarm 2034 “Grid Overvoltage”. It has been down since the 8th and used to produce about 90 kWh a day. The voltages point to a neutral problem, not the grid. See the diagnosis
  2. No data
    13.5 kW Huawei plant: not reporting for 13 days. The alarm is on the SDongle, so the whole plant is running blind and nobody knows whether it is producing. It is usually the router, the Wi-Fi or the dongle itself: a call to the customer clears it up before sending anyone out.
  3. Check
    The other 3 plants with a fault and the 9 that are not reporting. If you like, I can sort them by power and by days without data.
And which one is producing less than usual this month?
Checkedget_plant_energy

By plant, the furthest off is the 15 kW one with the 2034: 0 kWh since the 8th. By connection, in kWh per installed kWp so far this month:

Huawei · account 223.7
Huawei · account 112.9
SolisCloud12.9

Careful not to read this as low production: in account 1 and in SolisCloud there are plants that are not reporting and add no kWh, but they do count towards the kWp. The average drops because of missing data. Before drawing conclusions, I would get those plants reporting again.

Sort the non-reporting ones by powerCompare with November last year
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Diagnosis

From the alarm code to the likely cause.

A code doesn’t tell you what to do. Faced with an alarm, Alexandria works the way your back-office technician would, but with all the portal data at hand:

  1. 1

    Reads the alarm

    Code, the manufacturer’s description and the exact time it was triggered.

  2. 2

    Looks at the plant now

    Real-time status of the plant and the inverter.

  3. 3

    Requests the day’s readings

    5-minute data: voltage per phase, frequency, strings and current.

  4. 4

    Compares with previous days

    Daily production before and after the alarm.

  5. 5

    Gives you a plan

    Ranked hypotheses, what is urgent and what to ask the customer before sending out a technician.

app.suntropy.ai
Alexandria
Suntropy Connect · Huawei FusionSolar
Read-only
The 15 kW plant has had alarm 2034 since Sunday. What’s wrong with it?
Checkedlist_alarmsget_plant_statusget_plant_energyget_device_history
2034 · Grid OvervoltageSUN2000-15KTL-M5 · 15 kW · Comunidad de Madrid (Spain)
Major

It used to produce about 89 kWh a day. Since 4 November it starts up and stops, and since the 8th it has produced nothing.

Daily production · kWh · 1-10 Nov
88,31
90,02
90,23
6,84
5,15
1,66
11,57
08
09
010

In the inverter’s 5-minute readings, phase C is well above the other two:

ReadingA‑NB‑NC‑NPhase to phaseStatus
Mon 9 · 7:55224,8224,1261,8408,8 · 409,1 · 409,3Trying to start
Mon 9 · 12:10219,9220,6265,3406,0 · 404,1 · 406,8Stopped due to fault
Mon 9 · 15:00223,5223,3272,8413,1 · 413,1 · 413,9Stopped due to fault
Tue 10 · 7:50218,6222,8266,3406,3 · 405,9 · 407,9Stopped due to fault

Voltages in volts, mainland Spain time. Frequency 49.97-50.03 Hz. Output power: 0 W.

What it is

The phase-to-phase voltages are normal (404-414 V): if the grid were high, they would rise too. What moves is each phase relative to neutral: C rises to 262-273 V while A and B drop to 219-225 V. It is a shifted neutral: loose or broken in the distribution board, at the inverter connection or upstream, at the service connection. The inverter sees overvoltage on phase C and disconnects, which is exactly what it should do.

Urgent: the single-phase appliances in the home connected to phase C are receiving more than 260 V. Warn the customer today, even though the inverter is stopped.
Don’t raise the inverter’s overvoltage threshold to get it running again: you would mask the symptom and the neutral problem would still be there.
What should I ask the customer and what should I measure on the visit?

Before you go, ask them

  • Are there lights shining brighter than usual, or any appliance that has broken down in the last few days?
  • Has anyone worked on the distribution board, or has there been building work in the house or the street since the 3rd?
  • Has any neighbour noticed the same thing? If so, the problem is upstream.

On the visit, measure

  1. Phase-to-neutral at the main distribution board with the PV disconnected. If phase C is still high, the inverter has nothing to do with it.
  2. Neutral-to-earth voltage. A few volts is normal; tens of volts confirm a faulty neutral.
  3. Tightness of the neutral terminals, in the distribution board and at the inverter connection.
  4. If all of that is fine, the fault is in the service connection: notify the distribution network operator.
Draft the notice for the customerAre there other plants with this alarm?
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This is a real case from November 2026, with the readings exactly as FusionSolar returns them. We tell the whole story, with the reason behind every measurement, in Alarm 2034 “Grid Overvoltage” on Huawei.

Compatibility

The brands Suntropy Connect already reads.

You connect each manufacturer’s installer account, the same one you use in their portal today. Each brand has its own way of granting access:

What it reads from each plant

Plants Real-time status Energy, from 5 minutes to years Inverters, batteries, meters and dataloggers 5-minute history Alarms

Read-only. Suntropy never writes or changes anything on the plants. The credentials for each account are stored encrypted.

How to get started

Three steps and you’re asking away.

  1. 1

    Create your Suntropy account

    Signing up is free. Alexandria lives inside Suntropy, at app.suntropy.ai.

  2. 2

    Connect your brands

    In Settings › Suntropy Connect › Connectors, add each manufacturer’s account.

  3. 3

    Ask Alexandria

    “Which plants are failing today?” and from there, whatever you need.

With Alexandria (Suntropy AI), Suntropy Connect monitoring is free.

Frequently asked questions

What maintenance teams ask us.

Do I have to stop using each manufacturer’s portal?

No. Suntropy Connect reads the portals you already use (FusionSolar, SEMS+, iSolarCloud, Deye Cloud, SolisCloud, Enphase) with your installer account. You don’t change portal or inverter.

Can Alexandria switch off, configure or reset an inverter?

No. Access is read-only: Suntropy never writes or changes anything on the plants. Alexandria tells you what is happening and what to check; your team carries out the work.

Which inverter brands are supported?

Today, Huawei FusionSolar, GoodWe SEMS+, Sungrow iSolarCloud, Deye Cloud, SolisCloud (in beta) and Enphase. For each plant it reads the real-time status, energy, devices, the 5-minute history and the alarms.

How often are alarms read?

Every 10 to 30 minutes, depending on what each manufacturer’s API allows. Alarms are kept for up to 30 days after they close, with their read or unread status.

Why doesn’t one of my Huawei plants show up?

In FusionSolar, the installer’s Northbound account only sees the plants whose owner has granted “API Access”. Ask the owner to enable it and the plant will appear.

Can I use it from ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes. Suntropy Connect also works as a connector in ChatGPT and Claude with a Suntropy Connect licence. If you use it with Alexandria, inside Suntropy AI, monitoring is free.

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Connect your plants and ask Alexandria.

All your brands in one conversation: what is failing, why and what to do first.