I thought this was funny, just saw it today on one of the Canadian newspaper websites I check daily...
"how not to monitor your PV charge: Aim a $40 IP webcam at the front panel" https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/05/10/riverdale-couples-grid-resilient-house-takes-on-climate-change.html I will confess that I have aimed Unifi cameras at things with dial gauges for fuel level before, but only as a temporary measure. On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:04 AM, D. Ryan Spott <rsp...@ngc457.com> wrote: > +10000 for the sitemonitor monitoring. The web interface ***of the charge > controller*** is in no way protected. I would not trust it on a network > even if I had it behind a firewall. > > Whoops. > > ryan > > On 5/10/16 11:03 AM, D. Ryan Spott wrote: > > Make sure you have the most recent firmware for the charge controllers. > There is a memory leak in older (5 years+) versions that would knock out > monitoring. Charging would happen like normal but details about that > charging were just static numbers. > > The new firmware now only leaks enough to freak out every 2 years or so. > Just bounce the charge controller during your yearly maintenance and you > should be good. > > +10000 for the sitemonitor monitoring. The web interface is in no way > protected. I would not trust it on a network even if I had it behind a > firewall. > > ryan > > On 5/9/16 7:12 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > How are you retrieving the data from the morningstar to feed into the > program? http interface? > > I'm fine with using curl, sed, regex in a shell script to graph arbitrary > data from things that present more information via a non-SNMP interface... > Been doing that for a while with external sources like weather data, I-5 > traffic, etc. > > > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Robert Andrews < <i...@avantwireless.com> > i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: > >> I actually have a few C programs that can be used to query any values you >> want from a Morningstar with ethernet. I use them to feed MRTG with the >> actual voltages and currents through my Morningstars. One less piece of >> hardware and one less cable to deal with and one less voltage vampire on my >> solar sites... >> >> On 05/09/2016 04:38 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: >> >>> if you hook up a packetflux to the serial port than you can get >>> everything you could ever want to monitor via SNMP. The built in SNMP >>> is pretty limited. >>> >>> here's a screenshot of the packetflux web interface, all these values >>> can be obtained via SNMP. >>> Inline image 1 >>> >>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Eric Kuhnke < <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> >>> eric.kuh...@gmail.com >>> <mailto: <eric.kuh...@gmail.com>eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Any chance you could snmpwalk one starting from the root OID, >>> numeric, and copy/paste the results back to the mailing list? I'm >>> curious what it exposes. >>> >>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Sean Heskett < <af...@zirkel.us> >>> af...@zirkel.us >>> <mailto: <af...@zirkel.us>af...@zirkel.us>> wrote: >>> >>> We use Morningstar tri-star controllers. They have a web >>> interface and snmp support via an Ethernet connection. You can >>> also hook up to the serial port a packetflux module designed for >>> the Morningstar controllers. >>> >>> -Sean >>> >>> >>> On Monday, May 9, 2016, Eric Kuhnke < <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> >>> eric.kuh...@gmail.com >>> <mailto: <eric.kuh...@gmail.com>eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Is there anything new on the market in the last 2 years or >>> so that speaks SNMP over IP and Ethernet? >>> >>> Specifically I'm trying to figure out how to integrate >>> OpenNMS and Cacti with OIDs for integer values like charging >>> amperage, input current from PV, current battery string >>> voltage, etc. Temperature monitoring would be nice too. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- > > Ryan Spott | NGC457, llc > Community Networking Solutions > PO Box 1734 Sultan, WA 98294 > 360-499-2164 > > > -- > > Ryan Spott | NGC457, llc > Community Networking Solutions > PO Box 1734 Sultan, WA 98294 > 360-499-2164 > >
