OH 2.4, SMA inverter modbus trouble

It doesn’t matter much here, it will retry anyway at next scheduled poll.

Is your openHAB host in the same IP subnet?

Remember this is a polling binding; once it has initialized its scheduled polls it’s a bit late to change parameters. If you have been editing Things, be sure to reboot openHAB or at least stop/start the binding.

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