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    Home Depot for Renogy

    I ordered my Renogy charge controller and panel from HD. Although I didn't have a problem with the order process, I did have a problem with delivery. Components are shipped directly from Renogy and at least in our area, it comes via FedEx which is where the nightmare happens. They lost the...
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    Off-grid Solar / Battery monitoring and control freeware

    Great Project! I've got this working with a Renogy Rover Elite MPPT. I also hacked a "splitter" together so I can run the BT-2 module as well as the Pi. I'm still playing around with the data I want to collect using the Renogy modbus documentation and the graph layouts but I'm getting...
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    Monitoring Renogy Charge Controller over Serial Port Broken!

    Has anyone tried to read from a USB serial cable? Something like this: https://www.renogy.com/rs485-to-usb-serial-cable/
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    Does anyone have a working system including solar-monitor, HomeAssistant and showing graphs with Granfana? I'm trying to build it all and it's a kludge trying to tie it all together. Just looking for a howto to see what I'm missing. I got as far as seeing data on MQTT in HomeAssistant but...
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    I'm running this on a Renogy Rover Elite 40a MPPT. If anyone needs any tests performed, I'm willing to contribute anything I can
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    I tried to just install bluez and it actually broke the rest of the bluetooth stack. bluetoothctl was removed when it was installed and hci was replaced with bluez interfaces which broke everything else. This is Raspbian "bullseye" on a spare Pi 4 I had on the shelf
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    I was just able to get it working. Trying bluetoothctl and connecting directly, I got: [bluetooth]# connect f0:f8:f2:6e:86:0b Attempting to connect to f0:f8:f2:6e:86:0b [CHG] Device F0:F8:F2:6E:86:0B Connected: yes Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed [CHG] Device F0:F8:F2:6E:86:0B...
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    I just disconnected the BT-2 and turned off Bluetooth on my phone and iPad. Made sure the app wasn't open anywhere and then tried to connect with the Pi. Same thing. connect/discover name/disconnect
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    Renogy Devices and Raspberry Pi - bluetooth/WiFi

    Has anyone been successful reading a Rover Elite 40 with BT-2? Reading through the thread, I can't tell what success people have been having with BT-2. I can connect but it immediately disconnects and I get no results. I see a lot of "ping" requests every couple minutes but no data. I'm a...
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