mhassannadeem / watchpower

Arduino compatible driver for WatchPower (OptiSolar, VoltronicPower etc) Solar Intervers

WatchPower

A Particle library for interfacing with Solar Inverters that work with WatchPower PC software. Tested on Particle Photon. Should work any arduino like (wiring) device with little to no modifications.

Usage

Connect Serial1 of your Particle Photon / Arduino to the solar Inverter.

#include "WatchPower.h"
WatchPower watchPower(Serial1);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
  watchPower.refreshData();
  Serial.println(watchPower.gridVoltage.str);
}

See the examples folder for more details.

Documentation

TODO: Describe WatchPower

Contributing

Here's how you can make changes to this library and eventually contribute those changes back.

To get started, clone the library from GitHub to your local machine.

Modify the sources in and with the new behavior.

Compile and test.

Create a GitHub pull request with your changes.

LICENSE

Copyright 2017 Hassan Nadeem

Licensed under the MIT license

watchpower's Issues

Voltronics Axpert VM3000-24 İnverter Monitoring On Arduino Board

Hi Hassan,
I look watchpower.cpp and watchpower.h
I couldn't find Particle.h in your watchpower file
Because of it Arduino ide compiler doesn't work?
Can you help me?

How to display settings?

Hello, can you tell me how to display settings from QPIRI, according to the principle as done in watchPower.solarPowerActive.str?

Ho to connect the inverter to serial 1?

I am using the MasterPower inverter Omega 5000 (MP-5K-24) at home, and I would love to connect a photon to it in order to expose the data logs but I am not quite sure how to connect the serial port of the photon to the inverter.

Can you help me with this? Some pictures might help as well.

Thank you

Voltronic 5048 PF1 - Dashboard

Love the work. I have a Particle Photon to which i flashed the code and as a newbie to IOT I am still quite lost. I used the WatchPower libraries from Particle IDE and it compiled and flash without issues. I see the Photon Status in the Particle console. However I have some dumb questions and need some pointers - enough to self explore.

1. To connect to the Inverter, do I connect via the serial pins , TXD & RXD on the Photon or use the Micro USB to USB on the inverter?
2. What is the best platform to connect to and what dashboard app (Android) can I use to setup gauges and graphs for the data streaming?
   I hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks,

Jannie

Bug while executing OutputSourcePriority -> SBU

Hello, when executing the OutputSourcePriority command, namely if you send the command:
watchPower.setOutputSourcePriority (WatchPower :: OutputSourcePriorities :: SBU) then the command for setting the value is beaten, instead of POP02, POP0 without number 2 is sent, in other cases everything is fine (POP00 and POP01). What is the reason for this? I checked the rest of the parameters, it seems like there is no such problem, with the number 2.