Powermon

Python package designed to get information from inverters and other solar inverters and power monitoring devices

Currently has support for:

• MPP-Solar and similar inverters, e.g.

  • PIP-4048MS

  • IPS-4000WM

  • Voltronic Axpert MKS 5KVA Off-grid Inverter-Chargers

  • LV5048

• JK BMS

• Victron VE Direct Devices, e.g. SmartShunt 500A

• Daly BMS

• Neey / Heltec active balancers

Documentation

• Installation
• USB permissions on Linux
  • USB permissions on Linux
    • Permission denied error
    • udev rules - basic
    • udev rules - advanced
• Usage
  • Powermon Usage
    • Usage
      • Standard usage
      • Command Options
      • Run Adhoc Command
      • List Available Protocols
      • List Available Commands for a Protocol
  • Powermon CLI Usage
    • Powermon-cli Usage
      • Command Options
      • List Protocols
      • List Commands in a protocol
      • List Output formats
      • Compare Protocols
• Devices
  • Inverters
  • Battery Management Systems (BMS)
  • Balancers
• Config File Syntax
• device
• commands
• loop
• mqttbroker
• daemon
• api
• debuglevel
• Tutorials
  • Daly BMS
    • Daly BMS
      • What you need
      • Instructions
      • Configuration
      • Troubleshooting
• Docker
  • Installing Docker on a raspberry pi
  • Run powermon in docker (using docker hub image)
  • Run development code in docker
  • Run a simple mqtt container
• Development
  • Powermon Logic
    • Powermon Logic
    • Protocol Documentation
      • BMS Protocol Docs
      • Inverter Protocol Docs
    • powermon
      • powermon package