Getting Started

Installation

After downloading the latest version of the software, please complete the windows installation.

The following represents the detailed steps:

  1. Locate and open the zip file downloaded from the SunSpec website.

  2. Double-click the executable file to start the installation.

    • Accept the license agreement similar to the figure below, then click Next button.
    • Browse to location where you want to store the executable, then click Next button.
    • Select the checkbox if you want to create a desktop shortcut, and click Next to continue
    • Click Install to start the windows installation
    • When the installation completes, click the checkbox to run the application immediately or just click Finish.

  3. To get COMM test pcaps, do the following:

    • Install Wireshark.
    • Open a cmd shell in C:\Program Files\Wireshark
    • Run the following
    • C:\Program Files\Wireshark>tshark.exe -D

  4. locate the loopback interface name.

    • Test the interface. C:\Program Files\Wireshark>tshark -i \Device\NPF_Loopback Capturing on 'Adapter for loopback traffic capture'
    • 0.000000 127.0.0.1 58950 127.0.0.1 8555 752 HTTP GET /der20305 HTTP/1.1
    • 0.000073 127.0.0.1 8555 127.0.0.1 58950 44 TCP 8555 → 58950 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=709 Win=170 Len=0
    • 0.001511 127.0.0.1 8555 127.0.0.1 58950 190 TCP HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Licensing

A license must be installed to unlock the functionality of the software. The licenses are designed to work for machines which are sometimes or permanently offline.

Please go to Help → About to get your 16-digit ID. Email support@sunspec.org with this information and the support team will email back the license for this computer.

Click the “Update License” button at the bottom of the About panel to update the license file (which is stored in %APPDATA%\..\local\SunSpec Dashboard by DER Security\). Uploading a license file from this location is not permitted.

Quickstart Guide

The following quick-start use cases can be used to quickly start working with SunSpec Dashboard. Please see the following sections to get up and running quickly.

Use Case Typical User Objectives
Connecting to a SunSpec device. DER interface developers, power electronics engineers, etc. Validate SunSpec Information Model data, read/write Modbus points, poll data from DER at set period.
Writing custom test scripts Power electronics engineers Point testing of DER equipment for interoperability and power performance.
Running dynamic DER simulations DER interface developers, gateway designers, etc. Emulate and interact with the behavior of an IEEE 1547-compliant DER.