Lux ac battery controller

Solarchaser

In my experience when it wants to trickle charge, it will stop around 15%, so I'd not think it was that personally 

mickyduck55

Stopped at 90%... working as expected now 

Solarchaser

Have you not used the batteries in a while?

mickyduck55

They have been connected as always  but we have been away for a week and little  generation 
seems fine today 

martin2020

so im thinking about having a play with octolux  and wondering if its possible to run on windows? i dont have any linux or ruby experience but can edit scripts and such.   
anyone running it on windows that can tell point me in the right direction

EVandPV

martin2020 said:

so im thinking about having a play with octolux  and wondering if its possible to run on windows? i dont have any linux or ruby experience but can edit scripts and such.   
anyone running it on windows that can tell point me in the right direction

No problem at all running it from Windows, I was doing exactly that for a while before switching to a Raspberry Pi with my own python code.
I couldn't get the built in Windows scheduler to work with ruby files though so used a program called Z-Cron instead. I used it to run a batch file every half hour which triggered the octolux script.

martin2020

EVandPV said:

martin2020 said:

so im thinking about having a play with octolux  and wondering if its possible to run on windows? i dont have any linux or ruby experience but can edit scripts and such.   
anyone running it on windows that can tell point me in the right direction

No problem at all running it from Windows, I was doing exactly that for a while before switching to a Raspberry Pi with my own python code.
I couldn't get the built in Windows scheduler to work with ruby files though so used a program called Z-Cron instead. I used it to run a batch file every half hour which triggered the octolux script.

ive installed ruby for windows and edited the scripts as instructed but when running the  "  systemctl enable octolux_server.service"
i get an error saying not a shell builtin
the start server command worked however
any clue

EVandPV

martin2020 said:

EVandPV said:

martin2020 said:

so im thinking about having a play with octolux  and wondering if its possible to run on windows? i dont have any linux or ruby experience but can edit scripts and such.   
anyone running it on windows that can tell point me in the right direction

No problem at all running it from Windows, I was doing exactly that for a while before switching to a Raspberry Pi with my own python code.
I couldn't get the built in Windows scheduler to work with ruby files though so used a program called Z-Cron instead. I used it to run a batch file every half hour which triggered the octolux script.

ive installed ruby for windows and edited the scripts as instructed but when running the  "  systemctl enable octolux_server.service"
i get an error saying not a shell builtin
the start server command worked however
any clue

Not sure about that one as I never bothered running the server and just used the basic rules file which simply charges whenever Agile drops below a predefined price.
The server appears to hold the battery SOC for when octolux needs it from what I can tell but I've no idea how it works.
Like I say, I'm now using my own script which gets the battery SOC directly from the pylons via serial cable in order to work out how much charge is required.

mickyduck55

Just set this up.. 4 hours charging on "Go" from 00:31 - 04:29... The AC charge level was set at 95%.. I have changed it to 100% is there any problem with that?  Also set charge rate to 80% reduced from 100%... comment on another thread re "It being a little kinder to the batteries"  My theory is that this setting could put 11.2 kW into the battery as the max charge rate is set at 3.6 kW.. am I right ? (Battery is 10.5 kW).  TIA

martin2020

anyone been running the latest firmware? any noticeable difference or bugs?