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Monitors an Outback MATE, Renogy Rover - MPPT Charge Controller and EPEver Tracer. Integrates with Grafana, PVOutput and more!
https://solarthing.readthedocs.io
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Feature Request -Add Renogy BT1 support #125

Closed screech24 closed 7 months ago

screech24 commented 1 year ago

It would be incredible if you could somehow add support for Renogy BT1 Bluetooth modules. See this github link which someone has created a python script to read data from these modules. https://github.com/cyrils/renogy-bt1

retrodaredevil commented 1 year ago

This was talked about a little here: https://github.com/wildmountainfarms/solarthing/issues/44. I'm less opposed to trying this out now that others have had success, but this is something that I won't be testing or adding support for.

I'm not opposed to having someone else contribute to make the feature work, but I expect that Java support for Bluetooth is not as good as Python support for Bluetooth. Should someone decide to contribute to this there would have to be a lot of requirements to make this feature useable:

Sorry that this feature is not a priority for me right now. I do think that implementing this feature would get more people to use SolarThing.

screech24 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I don't have the coding knowledge required to do the work to implement this. But I do however have a raspberry pi and the BT-1 module so if someone does feel so inclined to add support for Bluetooth I would be happy to test it out to insure everything works as expected.

It would be a much better way of getting the data from these rover series controllers since the USB cable isn't available anymore..(I know I could make one but I already have the Bluetooth module) and Bluetooth means the pi doesn't have to be in the same area as the charge controller.

On Sat, May 27, 2023, 13:20 Lavender Shannon @.***> wrote:

This was talked about a little here: #44 https://github.com/wildmountainfarms/solarthing/issues/44. I'm less opposed to trying this out now that others have had success, but this is something that I won't be testing or adding support for.

I'm not opposed to having someone else contribute to make the feature work, but I expect that Java support for Bluetooth is not as good as Python support for Bluetooth. Should someone decide to contribute to this there would have to be a lot of requirements to make this feature useable:

  • Configuration should require a Bluetooth ID (or whatever the Bluetooth terminology is for a device's ID)
    • (Eventually) Configuration should also be as similar to current configuration options, meaning it should require the specification of a Modbus ID
  • solarthing check command needs to be able to scan for Bluetooth devices so people can figure out their device's Bluetooth ID

Sorry that this feature is not a priority for me right now. I do think that implementing this feature would get more people to use SolarThing.

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retrodaredevil commented 7 months ago

Going to close this issue for now. Anyone is welcome to reopen this in the future if anyone has anything else to add or would like to contribute to this feature.