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

Installation

powermon is packaged on pypi and can be installed via pip, i.e.:

pip install powermon

There are a number of optional dependancies that can be installed based on the components required see extended instructions

Usage

powermon requires a config file, and the simplest usage is:

powermon -C /path/to/configfile.yaml

see full usage options

todo

• j4_config_file
• j5_tutorials
• j6_docker
• j7_development