{"id":216,"date":"2013-12-05T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:21:14","slug":"solarriver-pvoutput-and-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/2013\/12\/solarriver-pvoutput-and-the-raspberry-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarRiver, PVOutput and the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SamilPower\"<\/a>I originally had my PV solar panels and inverter installed on the\u00a012th August 2012 (15 months ago) and since then I have always wanted to get all the statistics logged. \u00a0I was originally planing on logging to a local database which would then require a custom application written to pull the information from the inverter and to then pull that data into usable information.<\/p>\n

\"SolarRiver\"<\/p>\n

since then I came across PVOutput<\/a> which looked fantastic and offered the facility to upload the statistics from your inverter allowing you to access a WEB site that presented the information to you in good looking graphs. \u00a0When I stumbled across this site I just had to use it rather than going to the effort of producing my own.<\/p>\n

One problem I contended with was I could not justify the cost of leaving a computer on for the six to eight hours a day just to obtain the statistics form the inverter. \u00a0My computer seems to use on average 120 watts per hour, meaning it would coast at current electricity prices nearly $300 every year just to accumulate the data.<\/p>\n

\"Raspberry<\/p>\n

Some time ago I came across the Raspberry Pi which is a small computer utilising the ARM chipset. This device only uses two watts per hour meaning the yearly cost is well under $10 per year for eight hours a day of operation or under $20 per year to run 24*7. \u00a0So this became a real viable option. \u00a0I currently use the Raspberry Pi for my home PBX<\/a> system and for running my own private cloud solution which uses BitTorrent Sync.<\/p>\n

Three and a half weeks have passed since I have configured my rPi to gather the logs from my Inverters and the data is starting to produce some useful information.<\/p>\n

I have two individual systems. \u00a0A 2kW and a 3kW. \u00a0The 2kW is facing North East and the 3kW is facing North West.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in building your own system I do have a document on how to build and configure your own. \u00a0Please go to\u00a0PVOutput_with_the_Raspberry_Pi_and_SolarRiver_Inverters<\/a>\u00a0on my Wiki for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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