SolarPowerLog

Welcome to solarpowerlog

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:55:17 +0100

Welcome to the solarpowerlog homepage. Solarpowerlog is open source software for monitoring photovoltaic systems. Quick Orientation: Please use the categories for your navigation: News -- If I think something is important to mention, it will go here. User Guides -- Targeting the user, this (will) contain user guides, manuals, FAQs, Howtos, etc. Development -- Want to get involved? In this category, deveopment topics are covered. [NEW] IRC-Chat: Join the channel #solarpowerlog at irc.freenode.net [NEW] Use the Idea Torrent to submit ideas / suggestions. Check out the mailling list at For Development: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/solarpowerlog-development For Users: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/solarpowerlog-users

Solarpowerlog 0.12 released

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:52:08 +0100

For long I did not release the changes I made to solarpowerlog, today the new vesion is due. Key changes are some bug fixes, better support for win32 buids and a complete rewrite of the communication interfaces... Also, for the first, time, I repacked a debian package for the armel archicteture. So if you are runnign a NSLU or Thecus N2100 with debian, this is for you. coldtobi To quote the changelog: (0.11 was not released, so the changes from 0.10 to 0.12 are given) solarpowerlog (0.12) unstable; urgency=low * Communication is now done asynchronous instead of polling. This should improve the timing accuracy, as well laying the preparing for a"daisy-chain-commmunications-module" * Added a simple simulator to enable debugging at night * FTBFS fixed when lib4logcxx was unavailable * New parameter "--version" * CVSDumper: Bugfix for Win32, "Won't open file" * Fixing a build error on newer boost libraries * Autotools: Fix for Win32: liblog4cxx depends on apr and needs also to link in this library. This was not seen on linux. * Autotools: Added missing m4 macros * Autotools fix: now autotools will also run under win32 to generate the configure script * Many other tweaks and code rewrites.... -- Tobias Frost Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:11:25 +0200 solarpowerlog (0.11-unreleased) unstable; urgency=low * Sputniks' error recovery did not work sometimes * Components of the programm can now be selectivly choosen at compile time to reduce the amount of required external libraries and memory footprint. * Solved a bug with the logging levels. -- Tobias Frost Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0200

Version 0.1 released

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:30:47 +0200

The new version can now store the data in a more convenient file format: CVS. The CVSOutputFilter can dump all or a selection of informations to a specified file, which will be (if configured) rotated automatically at midnight. See the Changelog NEWs file for details!

Solarpowerlog welcomes the Windows Folks

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:34:29 +0200

I just uploaded a Windows version of solarpowerlog 0.01(a) to sf.net. The only difference between 0.01 and 0.01a is a small bug-fix, which only appeared on win32. You can download the zip file at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259217&package_id=318165

Project Links

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:32:48 +0200

Here are three important project links: solarpowerlog at source-forge (project page at sf.net) (Project Hub: Downloads, Source, ...) Bug Tracking System project blog (this one) Developer Informations (Doxygen) Occasionally, I will also blog on my main blog about this project.

What is Solarpowerlog / Version 0.01 released

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:43:38 +0200

SolarPowerLog is an open source application for logging data and the performance of a photovoltaic system. It is currently under heavy development, but the current released version 0.01 can already be used: It connects via TCP/IP to Sputnik Engineering Solarmax inverters. Can connect to an unlimited amount of inverters Aquires data from the inverter and currently print them out to stdout.