Online Solar energy monitor?. Geo energynote online service ending 30/6/2021 (geo Solo II PV )

Aia

I've been using the solo pv system on my phone and online to monitor my panels, and it helped me compare values from previous years, which helped identify faults when it rained)

Their online service is coming to an end, which makes the product useless to me now (loop energy just ended their service as well >.< )

What are the alternatives I can use and buy in the next month?

Eco eye seems to be an alternative with an energyhive add on to get it online but doesn't seem to be stocked anywhere.

I chose the geo system as it read directly from the generation meter, where as the eco eye uses clamps, but this would be ok for my needs. As I have webcam pointed at the meter for taking readings.

2nd Question

Any idea how could get my data off energynote website? there is an option to download the daily data, but I won't be able to download the data that gives me the nice graphs. which is readings throughout the day. I can still select the calender and view the graphs for each day. Could I save the site to my desktop or scrape( is that the correct word?) the website using macros or something

QrizB

I've got a loop and I wouldn't recommend it; the hardware works well but the app is poor, IMHO. I haven't heard anything about the service ending but I've not gone looking.

My son's an A-level Computer Science student and I've got him working on a set of scripts to run on a RPi and take the data from an energy monitor then serve it up as a web page. If it comes to anything I'll let you know but I'm not expecting it to be more than an alpha release any time soon!

EVandPV

QrizB said:

I've got a loop and I wouldn't recommend it; the hardware works well but the app is poor, IMHO. I haven't heard anything about the service ending but I've not gone looking.

My son's an A-level Computer Science student and I've got him working on a set of scripts to run on a RPi and take the data from an energy monitor then serve it up as a web page. If it comes to anything I'll let you know but I'm not expecting it to be more than an alpha release any time soon!

I've been doing much the same for the past 9 years with a Pi running a script which uploads our generation to pvoutput.org.
The Pi is connected by usb to a Current Cost Envir monitor and uploads data every 5 minutes.
You can setup an account for free on pvoutput.org.

Aia

EVandPV said:

QrizB said:

I've got a loop and I wouldn't recommend it; the hardware works well but the app is poor, IMHO. I haven't heard anything about the service ending but I've not gone looking.

My son's an A-level Computer Science student and I've got him working on a set of scripts to run on a RPi and take the data from an energy monitor then serve it up as a web page. If it comes to anything I'll let you know but I'm not expecting it to be more than an alpha release any time soon!

I've been doing much the same for the past 9 years with a Pi running a script which uploads our generation to pvoutput.org.
The Pi is connected by usb to a Current Cost Envir monitor and uploads data every 5 minutes.
You can setup an account for free on pvoutput.org.

I'm not very familiar with RPi , but if your internet goes down do you lose data being submitted to pvoutput.org?

Petriix

I'm in the same boat with the Geo/energynote website. I'm actually tempted to hack the bridge by diverting traffic to a computer on my network and spoofing the responses to collect the data locally.

EVandPV

Aia said:

EVandPV said:

QrizB said:

I've got a loop and I wouldn't recommend it; the hardware works well but the app is poor, IMHO. I haven't heard anything about the service ending but I've not gone looking.

My son's an A-level Computer Science student and I've got him working on a set of scripts to run on a RPi and take the data from an energy monitor then serve it up as a web page. If it comes to anything I'll let you know but I'm not expecting it to be more than an alpha release any time soon!

I've been doing much the same for the past 9 years with a Pi running a script which uploads our generation to pvoutput.org.
The Pi is connected by usb to a Current Cost Envir monitor and uploads data every 5 minutes.
You can setup an account for free on pvoutput.org.

I'm not very familiar with RPi , but if your internet goes down do you lose data being submitted to pvoutput.org?

The script I run would lose data but it could easily be adapted to save the data locally too then upload to pvoutput when back online.