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Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to solar systems and even IoT but I want to help my dad with his solar system, I basically just want to setup something that can read some parameters from the inverter such as Battery Voltage, Amperage, Wattage from panels etc... and then send that to a computer where I can put the data in a application and display it. I'm thinking of using a Raspberry Pi or an Adruino, can anybody link some good documentation on how I would be able to accomplish this since I am new to IoT and even using things such as a Adriuno or Raspberry Pi. I have programming knowledge in quite a few languages, I just don't understand how to read the parameters from the inverter to the Pi or Adruino and then send it to a computer so if anyone could perhaps explain or link me some documentation that would be great. 

 

Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention

The inverter my dad is using is some sort of clone of the Axpert(4000W 48V)

 

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forgot to mention details
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3 minutes ago, Youda said:

Do not reinvent the wheel again.

Search for ICC or SolPIPlog.

I'm still a student and I'm interested in learning how to do this kind of thing so it would be beneficial for me 

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17 hours ago, Gnome said:
13 hours ago, kylebotha said:

Just what I needed :)

I was planning on adding an implementation specifically for Arduino, just haven't had the time.  Right now it is using libserialport (RS232) & HIDAPI (USB).

The lib itself uses an adapter over those two libraries, so it is pretty straightforward to swap out the implementation.  IE> you would implement a Arduino version of the RS-232 c file

Alternatively use it as a guide on how to implement it.  But I did do quite a bit of testing and fixing of bugs which you would get that for free by only creating a Arduino adapter.  Also if you do that let me know, I can add it (ie. pull request).

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