Looking for software

System

I would like to log my system as well as check it in real time on the web. I use Morningstar TS-45's with msview. I have been playing with some modbus apps but nothing is blowing up my skirt.

Any ideas out there?

crewzer

Re: Looking for software

Something like this? See: http://www.wattplot.com/wattplot.htm

HTH,
Jim / crewzer

SolarJohn

Re: Looking for software

Have you looked at the Morningstar TriStar Web View package? It's a hardware/software package for the TriStar charge controller. The software comes from "Fat Spaniel Technologies" I believe. Other than that, I think you're on the right track by looking into the modbus protocol. If I were a programmer I'd develop my own ap for my TriStar controller.

Please let us know what you find, as I would like to do the same thing. It's just that the Web View package costs more than I want to spend.

John

System2

Re: Looking for software

depending on the output format of the info in whatever program you are using, you can either use a simple macro program to put it in a .htm format and into a publicly shared web server so that it may be viewed as a webpage.

i could have misunderstood what you are trying to do.

System2

Re: Looking for software

Hi,

I am developing some software that uses open source libraries (jamod for ModBus) on Linux and Java to gather data from a variety of solar charge controllers. I haven't released it yet, but will soon and it should work with the tristar controllers. the project is at:

http://www.solarnetwork.net/

and let me know if you'd like to contribute any data, as I'm hoping to add more "nodes" to the network over the year. thanks, John