Data Collection and Visualization for a Solaranlage

Usage

This project consists of four parts, that can be enabled/disabled via conf.toml.

• collector: Collects the values of the specified topics and stores them in the database.
• display: Visualizes the specified topics on a simple display.
• webapp: Hosts a simple webapp to visualize the data in the database.
• fetch_all_topics: A tool to create a topics.json with all available topics + some info about them.

Deployment

Install via script

cd path/to/solar  # go to project
./install.sh

Manual

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh  # install uv package manager for python
cd path/to/solar  # go to project
uv sync  # install dependencies
cp "./deploy/solar.service" "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/"  # create systemd service
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable solar
systemctl --user start solar  # enable and start service

Configuration

cd path/to/solar  # go to project
nano conf.toml  # edit config file
systemctl --user restart solar  # restart systemd service