Epever Tracer - anyone ever gotten the Epever software to work under WINE (Ubuntu laptop)?

[Hogheavenfarm]

Just wondering if anyone has tried to install the Epever support software on a linux laptop, all they offer is winXP, Win7, and Win10, and some android apps. I would like to use my old linux laptop in conjunction with WINE on Ubuntu to work with the Tracer for some logging and programming.

 

[vejan738]

working on this today- lets see what happens

 

[v_green57]

If you know the internals of how Linux works, you can get what you need natively:

Instructions for creating a dashboard to monitor your epsolar tracer setup

UPDATE I've recently changed how I do things as I've come across this project. https://github.com/dpoulson/EPSolar I've...

randomsporadicprojects.blogspot.com

for reading the EPEVER MODBUS registers and graphing, etc using PHP.

GitHub - rosswarren/epevermodbus: Python library for communicating with EPever solar charge controllers

Python library for communicating with EPever solar charge controllers - GitHub - rosswarren/epevermodbus: Python library for communicating with EPever solar charge controllers

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and Python for writing to them via the command line.

Needs a USB to modbus cable. Won't work (well, at least not easily) with EPEVER's 802.11 adaptor.

I would be surprised if the EPEVER stuff works under WINE. Lots of direct hardware access going on and the apps are flaky from the get-go. WINE doesn't color outside the lines very well.

It might run under an Oracle VirtualBox VM if you know how to configure it to talk to the USB-MODBUS adaptor and then set permissions in Linux to allow that. That is how I finally got Morningstar's MSView to run under XP 32-bit so I could update the firmware on a TS-MPPT60.