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 :)