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Get Sentinel running in 15 minutes.

Two routes depending on what you want: a one-off Quick session for an STS engineer to look at your system right now, or a permanent install for ongoing monitoring.

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One-off · for support calls

Sentinel Quick — for the duration of one phone call.

Perfect when an STS engineer is on the phone and needs to read your system right now. Nothing installed, nothing left behind.

Coming soon · Phase 2

Run one binary, talk to your engineer, close the window.

Download SentinelQuick.exe (or .dmg for Mac). Run it — a small window shows a six-character code. Read the code to the engineer over the phone. When the call ends, close the window: nothing installed, no background process, no leftover icons.

Built on the same Go binary as the permanent agent, just launched in single-session mode. Self-cleans on exit.

  1. 1Download SentinelQuick
  2. 2Run it — code appears
  3. 3Read code to engineer
  4. 4Close when call ends

Works with GIV-AC GIV-HY 3.0 / 3.6 / 5.0 GIV-HY3 (Gen 3) GIV-AIO 3-phase Single-phase & three-phase. Firmware D0.300+ confirmed; older firmware likely works — tell us if it doesn’t.

Permanent · for ongoing monitoring

Install Sentinel to watch your system 24/7.

Pick the path that suits your hardware. All three end up at the same place.

On a PC you leave on

Already have a desktop or media server running most of the time? Drop the agent on there — 5 minutes, zero extra cost.

Windows · macOS · Linux · £0

 Recommended

On a Raspberry Pi appliance

For overnight monitoring (and Octopus Agile users): a £75 Pi 5 kit from The Pi Hut, our pre-built image, flash and plug.

Pi 5 + SD + PSU · ~£75

Docker / NAS / Home Assistant

Already run a homelab? Grab the Sentinel container image and run it alongside whatever else you have going.

Synology · Unraid · HA · £0

On a PC you leave on

  1. Download the installer for Windows or macOS.
  2. Run it — allow the network prompt when it appears.
  3. Open sentinelapp.solar and paste the pairing code shown by the agent.

On a Raspberry Pi appliance

  1. Order the Pi 5 4 GB starter kit from The Pi Hut.
  2. Flash the Sentinel image using Raspberry Pi Imager's custom-image dropdown.
  3. Boot the Pi, copy the code shown on the console, pair at sentinelapp.solar.

Docker / NAS / Home Assistant

  1. docker pull rvtcltd/sentinel-agent:latest
  2. Run with the example compose.yml on the GitHub README.
  3. Pair from sentinelapp.solar using the code in the container logs.
Install FAQ

Common install questions

If you already leave a desktop PC on most of the time, run the agent there — zero extra cost. If you want overnight monitoring (recommended for Octopus Agile users and anyone who wants Sentinel to catch overnight charging faults) buy a £75 Raspberry Pi 5 kit; it sips power and runs forever. You can switch between them later without losing data.
No. The agent talks to your inverter on the local network (a few kilobytes a second) and pushes a small summary to the cloud every 5 seconds while you’re viewing the dashboard, every 60 seconds otherwise. Less bandwidth than a single Spotify stream.
Not at all — they run side by side. Sentinel talks to the inverter’s local network port, the GivEnergy app uses their cloud. If GivEnergy Software Ltd disappears, you still have Sentinel; if they survive, you still have Sentinel for fault detection they don’t do.
No. The agent connects to the dongle’s built-in network service over your existing WiFi or Ethernet — the same way the GivEnergy app does. You just need to know the inverter’s IP address on your home network (the install wizard helps you find it).