ICC solar monitor software:

Post date: Jun 07, 2020 2:19:54 AM

To monitor my system i have chosen to connect iccSolar software via usb to a raspberry pi.

Icc solar software can communicate with Mpp solar inverters via USB and record the data via emoncms and mqtt.

You can purchase from iccSolar website for around 55$ an SD image of the software installation.

the SD card come pre-install with iccSolar software, emoncms and mqtt server.

You can access the data anywhere from the network via the emoncms web app:

Emoncms Screen shot:

IccSolar Screen shot:

EmonCms backup:

I do regular backup of the SD card of the Icc-solar Pi installation to be able to re build the system with a minimum lost of recorded power data but because icc-solar can published as well on a 2nd emoncms server i have setup an other raspberry pi with the emoncms pi pre build SD image.

In top of having a backup of the data recorded by icc-solar it add few functionalities to the system:

• Full emoncms interface and data presentation

• Mqqtt server

• Node-RED server

I can now extend safely my system with some arduino project communicating via mqtt to Node-RED.without having to modify the icc-solar pi installation :)