Installation
From PhotoVoltaic Logger new generation
Hardware requirements
- A server, which fits the software requirements :-)
 - Some sensors, like 1-Wire sensors, watt meters with S0 or D0 outputs
 -  Solar inverter which supports either
- live query of data (SMA Webbox, Fronius, Kaco)
 - write data in short intervals (quasi-live) somewhere
 
 
Software requirements
- Operating system with support of periodic job scheduling (for example *nix with cron)
 - MySQL ≥ 5.1.* (supports table partitions, views, trigger, functions, procedures and events)
 - PHP ≥ 5.3.*
 - Web server with PHP support, tested with Apache, Litespeed and Nginx (recommended)
 
Installation
The system is devided into 2 repositories, the PVLng core repo with web frontend and API and the PVLng-Scripts repo with the data aquisition scripts.