SolarPowerLog

Welcome to solarpowerlog

coldtobi — 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

coldtobi — 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 <tobi@coldtobi.de> 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 <tobi@coldtobi.de> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:38:46 +0200

Version 0.1 released

coldtobi — 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

coldtobi — 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

coldtobi — 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

coldtobi — 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.