Solar

Information about my solar system

Backing up my Solar Pogoplug

I’ve been running 123solar on my Pogoplug for almost a year now, and started to get concerned about loosing the historical data. So I started to look around at options for an automated backup. I simply followed the instructions here http://www.opticality.com/blog/2011/07/16/installing-crashplan-on-a-pogoplug-pro/ After doing so, I had some java issues, with […]

Real Time Solar stats

With the aid of a cheap Pogoplug and some excellent scripts already written I’ve got real time stats from my invertor showing Solar power in Leeds. http://leedssolar.servehttp.com/index_mono.php

May Solar data

The PVI Desktop continues to play up, loosing data for the odd day here and there. I am looking into getting something like a Raspberry Pi and hooking it up to the invertor for better stats collection. Has anyone hooked their Aurora up to a Linux box at all? I […]

Solar news for February

I’ve got some basic reporting back up and running for January and February and also investigating using a Linux Plug computer for real time reporting. The good news is I received my FITS payment for £204.96 promptly via direct debit.