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Post by retrodaredevil on Mar 15, 2020 2:20:40 GMT
As some of you know, I'm the creator of SolarThing. I've advertised and helped a few people set this up on this forum, but I figured this deserved its own thread.
This is compatible with Renogy Rover devices and most newer Renogy charge controllers.
When you set this up, you can view data in Grafana, an Android application, or on PVoutput.org. This doesn't require ANY programming knowledge to set up. Just some time reading and figuring stuff out.
I'm happy to answer anyone's questions or if you need help setting it up please don't hesitate to ask. Usually by asking questions I can improve the documentation for future viewers.
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raydas
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Post by raydas on Mar 15, 2020 16:31:30 GMT
Thanks retrodaredevil for the program. I downloaded the zip file and I will start looking at it again. What OS is preferred, for using the program.
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Post by retrodaredevil on Mar 15, 2020 18:27:42 GMT
It's easiest to set up on Linux systems, specifically Debian systems using systemd (such as Raspberry Pi's default OS or any Ubuntu distribution). It should work on Mac and Windows, but I am unable to test on those.
If you decide to use something like Windows or Mac, I don't really have any recommendations on how to make SolarThing start when the system boots up, but I might look into adding documentation for that if that's something you want to do.
The documentation references a lot of commands as if you were setting it up on the command line, but you could also just download the zip and follow the steps that way too. However, by downloading the zip file it makes SolarThing more difficult to update because you can't just run the "git pull" command. When you update SolarThing all you should have to do is update the jar file in the "program" directory, so it's not too difficult.
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