SolarMonitoring

This project was created because there is no monitoring or alerting when inverters fail. I happened to be checking the sunpower app one day to show a friend and noticed I had an alert. Turns out an inverter had be down for who knows how long. As a bonus I can now track a bunch of metrics per inverter, which is not possible using their app.

Requirements

Create an .env file or add the following to your env

DATADOG_API_KEY=api_key
DATADOG_APP_KEY=app_key
WEATHER_API_KEY=weather_api_key
WEATHER_LOCATION=zip_code,country_code

Running with deno

To run the deno project

$ deno task run

To run the deno project with a watcher

$ deno task dev

If you dont want to use a task for some reason

deno run --allow-net=192.168.0.68,api.datadoghq.com --allow-read=. --allow-env --watch main.ts

See the deno.jsonc doc for all the commands.

Docker

With Docker Run

$ sudo docker run -e "DATADOG_API_KEY=api_key" -e "DATADOG_APP_KEY=app_key" -e "WEATHER_API_KEY=weather_api_key" -d -e TZ=America/Chicago --name solar-monitor boxenofdonuts/solar-monitor:latest

As a Dockerfile

version: "3.4"
services:
  solar-monitor:
    image: boxenofdonuts/solar-monitor:latest
    container_name: solar-monitor
    environment:
      - PUID=1028 # optional
      - PGID=65536 # optional
      - TZ=America/Chicago # optional
      - DATADOG_API_KEY=api_key
      - DATADOG_APP_KEY=app_key
      - WEATHER_API_KEY=weather_api_key
      - WEATHER_LOCATION=98109,us
    restart: unless-stopped

You can add the DENO_ENV=dev environment to get debug logs

Notes

Most of the original python was written because of the notes here.

With Docker Hub

The project automatically builds and pushes to docker hub, however it only uses the 'latest' tag. To tag run the following:

sudo docker build -t boxenofdonuts/solar-monitoring:1.0.3 .
// This will tag it as version 1.0.3