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by TripitakaBC
Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:34 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

As I understand it (take that as worth exactly what you paid for it...) the issue is that the ESP running the device doesn't have the juice to power the dashboard consistently with a direct (local network) connection. I'm not 100% sure that is a viable reason as I run dashboards on other ESP devices...
by TripitakaBC
Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:49 am
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Only if you need MQTT for other purposes too. At the end of the day, the data is the data. For me, firing up a new jail in Truenas is quick and easy but if you need to buy an extra RPi or equipment then REST would have the edge.
by TripitakaBC
Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:47 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Graham @xion2000 You don't. This was my issue a little earlier in the thread. I ended up having to set up a standalone MQTT server in a jail on my Truenas box that receives the MQTT data and then HA polls the MQTT feed from there. I battled with it for ages in HA but the end result is that HA *requi...
by TripitakaBC
Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:22 am
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Happy to hear that you are just busy due to growing business! All good here, spring is coming in fast which brings a ton of work so I appreciate your situation; there is never enough time to get everything done. It's a funny old world, if I went missing my buddies may not notice for a month but my s...
by TripitakaBC
Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:42 am
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

xion2000 wrote:
Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:44 am
Hi all, does anyone know whats happened to Jonathan?
No but it did seem strange that the admin aspect of the forums have gone into hiatus.

@jonathan @david @amente - You guys OK?
by TripitakaBC
Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:52 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Is there ANY way that something in the SolarDashboard electronics can screw up the com port on the charge controller as this is what appears to have happened. That is a great question. One would imagine (and I took for granted) that whenever one piece of electrical equipment (such as the SnekTek) i...
by TripitakaBC
Thu Jan 07, 2021 8:23 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Sure! Many solar users have remote installs, some are at the cottage or cabin, others like myself just have a farm building that is too far away from mains electricity to make it viable to run the service so we use solar instead. Your online dashboard covers viewing of this data but doesn't allow fo...
by TripitakaBC
Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:14 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Solar Dashboard Project
Replies: 330
Views: 2455592

Re: Solar Dashboard Project

Also I'm interested in your use of homeassistant, I think other users were asking about how to integrate it. I can also help with this as I got mine up and running eventually. At present, the only way that I believe HA can make use of this data is via an external (to HA) MQTT server that can be set...
by TripitakaBC
Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:11 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: New Feature Request Thread for Solar Dashboard
Replies: 5
Views: 52531

Re: New Feature Request Thread for Solar Dashboard

*MQTT user/pass integration
- Necessary for integration with the Mosquitto MQTT client from the Home Assistant add-on store.

*MQTT QoS enable

*Hardware option with external wifi antenna
by TripitakaBC
Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:05 pm
Forum: Solar Discussion
Topic: Bug Report Thread for Solar Dashboard
Replies: 2
Views: 18535

Re: Bug Report Thread for Solar Dashboard

Bug Report: MQTT / RESTAPI

Please delete. The perceived bug was introduced during a copy/paste of the code. I have now confirmed that the formatting in mqtt is compatible with json.