⏱ The whole installation, timed
✓ ≈ 1 min 40 s in total
What you need
- 1Your Pylontech batteryUS2000, US3000, US5000, UP5000, Force… any model with a Console port
- 2A USB chargerAny phone charger, a USB port on your inverter or a power bank
- 3Your phoneTo pick your WiFi — no app to install
What you don't need
- Tools
- An app
- An electrician
- A computer
- Soldering
- Changing your inverter settings
What's in the box
- The Pylon-Monitor (79 g)
- RJ45 console cable
- USB power cable
- Quick-start card
Both cables are included. Net weight ~93 g.
5 steps, from box to live dashboard
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Plug it into the battery ⏱ 15 s
Plug one end of the RJ45 cable into the port labelled Console on your Pylontech (the master battery if you have several), and the other end into the Pylon-Monitor. It clicks in — that's the hardest part.
On the master battery: CONSOLE goes to the Pylon-Monitor, LINK PORT 1 goes to the slave battery. The mistake almost everyone makes: LINK PORT 1, not LINK PORT 0
The cable that chains your master battery to the first slave must leave LINK PORT 1 on the master — never LINK PORT 0. It plugs into LINK PORT 0 on the slave, and every further battery repeats the same 1 → 0 pattern. Wired the other way round the master never sees the rest of the stack, so Pylon-Monitor reports a single battery no matter how many you own. -
Power it ⏱ 5 s
Plug the USB cable into the Pylon-Monitor and into any 5 V USB source. It starts in a couple of seconds (the V2's screen lights up).
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Join the setup WiFi ⏱ 20 s
On your phone, open WiFi settings and connect to
PylonMonitor-Setup(no password). A setup page opens by itself; if not, go tohttp://192.168.4.1. -
Pick your home WiFi ⏱ 45 s
Tap your network in the list, type its password and press Save and connect. The Pylon-Monitor restarts and joins your WiFi.
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Open your dashboard ⏱ 15 s
Type
http://pylon-monitor.localin your browser — or the IP address shown at the bottom of the V2's screen. Your battery is live: charge, power, health, every cell. The first time, it asks you to create your own password (there is no default password).
That's it — you're live! 🎉
No configuration file, nothing to touch on your inverter. Here's what you can do next, whenever you like:
What the V2's screen shows
- State of charge in giant digits, always shown
- Voltage, current and power next to it
- A coloured charge gauge, the state (charging/discharging), health, cycles and temperature
- At the bottom: the IP address and
hostname.local
Every element except the percentage can be switched on or off from the dashboard's Screen Display page, with a live preview. The Lite has no screen: you read everything on your phone.
If something doesn't work
The screen stays blank
Check the USB cable and the power source, and try another USB port or charger. The device draws very little, but it needs a proper 5 V supply.
"No battery data"
The RJ45 cable is in the wrong port. Pylontech batteries have several RJ45 sockets: use the one labelled Console, not RS485, CAN or Link.
Only one battery shows up, but I have several
Almost always the link cable between batteries: it must leave LINK PORT 1 on the master and land in LINK PORT 0 on the first slave — never the other way round, never 0 to 0. Each further battery repeats 1 → 0. See the wiring photo.
I don't see PylonMonitor-Setup
The device may already have joined a previous network. Press the reset button (back of the enclosure) twice quickly to reopen the setup network — nothing is erased.
pylon-monitor.local doesn't open
Your network may not support it (mDNS). Use the IP address shown on the V2's screen, or find it in your router's list of connected devices.
It won't join my WiFi
Do the setup within about 5 m of the router, make sure a 2.4 GHz network is available (avoid "WPA3 only"), and retype the password carefully.
The screen stays white after an update
Use Reset via USB: it reinstalls the device from Chrome or Edge with a USB cable, in a few minutes.
The reset button, explained
It's on the back of the enclosure. Each press is short — nothing to hold down. What counts is 2 or 3 quick presses in a row (each within 8 seconds of the last).
PylonMonitor-Setup to pick a new network. MQTT, alarms and sign-in stay intact.The device no longer starts at all? Reset via USB reinstalls it from your browser over USB.
Two minutes from now, you could be watching every cell.
Both cables included · free updates for life · 2-year warranty · no subscription.