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PVLng - PhotoVoltaic Logger new generation

A logging and data warehouse system for measuring data of sensors and photovoltaic plants.

The system acts basely as a data warehouse.

In computing, a data warehouse (DW, DWH), or an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a database used for reporting and data analysis. Integrating data from one or more disparate sources creates a central repository of data, a data warehouse (DW). Data warehouses store current and historical data and are used for creating trending reports for senior management reporting such as annual and quarterly comparisons. Wikipedia:Data warehouse

All data will be stored in an very simple and efficient internal structure (readings), optimized for data readout of any kind with a well defined API interface.

Get started

Start with the introduction, design and concept or Quick start, check API description or browse all pages.

Supported systems

Data sources		Data targets
Fronius inverters with ComCard Kostal Piko inverters OWFS, all sensors S0 signals Energy meters with D0 according to IEC 62056-21 SMA inverters and Sensorbox via Webbox Weather underground (Open weather map, but Weather undergound is suggested :-)		Alerts as mail or via Twitter Mail for statistics PVOutput PV-Log Sonnenertrag.eu ThingSpeek Twitter Xively

Some of them are described on the Scripts page.

Get it

The source of the logger system is hosted on GitHub

The system consists of 2 independend repositories

• Web frontend and API in PVLng core repository
• Data acquisition scripts in PVLng-scripts repository

Please check before installation the hard- and software requirements.

A demo installation is available to get a feeling.

Get support

Follow @PVLng_com

• Forum
• PVLng core Issue tracker
• PVLng scripts Issue tracker
• Gitter chat
• If you have problems with the frontend, it would be nice if you send me some details about it.

Help needed

• Settings for other distributions than Debian
• Settings for other web servers than Apache and Nginx

Contribute

• For an account to edit articles with contact me.
• Login and write articles.
• All code contributions and bug reports are much appreciated.
  • The project is managed with the Git Flow branching model and tools, so all pull requests must always target the develop branch!
  • Please use soft tabs (four spaces) instead of hard tabs
  • Include commenting where appropriate and add a descriptive pull request message
• with PayPal

Contributions

List about used software in PVLng

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2012-2014 Knut Kohl <github@knutkohl.de>

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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