Installation
From PhotoVoltaic Logger new generation
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)
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
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.