FoxCloud

PV Monitoring

About this app

FoxCloud is a client monitoring software for photovoltaic power plants. It can interact with power plants remotely and wirelessly to obtain operating parameters such as power generation capacity, power generation revenue, equipment status, and equipment information.

Ratings and reviews

The real-time information isn't real time. At first viewing the app looks great, if a little tedious to go through various steps to get the data needed. The "Read Time" information was staying the same when turning on the kettle and found out you need to actually log out and back in to refresh the kwh being used. The app seems to cater for several sites, but the average home owner would only have 1 inverter installed, so the app needs a lot of improvements.

I agree with all the other negative reviews. Terrible software. Unreliable connection and data reporting. Unnecessary number of logins and clicks all the time. It also shows more power coming out of the inverter than going in, which is a neat trick. I run a software development team and if we'd built software this bad I'd fire the team then fire myself!

It's good to see what your PV system is doing but you soon realise that the information is way behind real time. Switch a sizeable load on or off and you just don't see any change on the real time data page for a food few minutes. There isn't enough colour discrimination for the different loads on the device statistics page. This would be so much better if you could zoom in or better still export it to Excel. Further development required perhaps?