pi-solarmax

Solarmax mqtt device for django-automation

Installation

Clone or download the code from https://github.com/deunix-educ/pi-solarmax

    git clone git@github.com:deunix-educ/pi-solarmax.git
    or
    tar xzfv pi-solarmax-main.zip
    mv pi-solarmax-main pi-solarmax
    
    cd pi-solarmax

• In etc directory we find:

  • bin: some utilities
  • conf: example configuration for a pi
  • install: example system installation for a pi

• Install the following packages:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt -y install build-essential git supervisor
    sudo apt -y python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv
    sudo cp /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf.old
    sudo cat >> /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf << EOF
    [inet_http_server]
    port=*:9001
    username=root
    password=toor
    EOF
  

• Change the rights of the following files

    chmod +x solarmax/*.py
    chmod +x etc/bin/*.sh
  

• Install the python virtual environment (in .venv)

    etc/bin/venv-install etc/install/requirements.txt
  

• Finally install the service supervisor configuration file

    sudo cp etc/conf/solarmax_service.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/
    sudo supervisorctl reread && sudo supervisorctl update
  

How it works

    cd solarmax

• Modify and copy config_example.yaml

    cp config_example.yaml config.yaml
    ./solarmaxd.py