Installation

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 Nginx (recommended), Apache and Litespeed

See also these hints for details!

Hardware requirements

• A server, which fits the software requirements :-)
  A Raspberry B with a 4 GB SD card works fine for me as scripts server connected to a central frontend/API sever.
• 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, Kostal)
  • write data in short intervals (quasi-live) somewhere

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 and extraction scripts.

• Installation instructions for PVLng core repository
• Installation instructions for PVLng-scripts repository

Upgrade

Core repository

Your can upgrade your installation at any time with

$ tools/upgrade.git

Upgrade your installation to lastest state from Github.

Usage: tools/upgrade.git <branch>

This works with master and develop

• Checkout the lastest changes from GitHub
• Apply outstanding database patches if any

Scripts repository

Just pull the latest changes from GitHub

git checkout master

or

git checkout develop

and

git pull