Hello Solar Braintrust,
I currently have a small (1.26 KW) all-Victron system and monitor it using Victron's VRM and a Raspberry Pi running Venus OS. Works amazingly well. Planning an off-grid home and barn with construction starting this spring, and trying to decide between Victron or EG4, but that's a different topic/debate. What I'm wondering about here is whether anyone offers a monitoring system that can work without a cloud (internet) connection. What I'm after is a way to see my local solar data (e.g., battery SOC, current and total solar production, current loads, etc.), over just my local network, without the need for it to pass through a remote server, even if I need to run a small computer on just the local network to enable this. In other words, without cloud dependency. I have enough skill to copy/paste (I got Venus OS running on the RPi), but I don't have coding skills. Thanks in advance for ideas and tales of firsthand experience.
I currently have a small (1.26 KW) all-Victron system and monitor it using Victron's VRM and a Raspberry Pi running Venus OS. Works amazingly well. Planning an off-grid home and barn with construction starting this spring, and trying to decide between Victron or EG4, but that's a different topic/debate. What I'm wondering about here is whether anyone offers a monitoring system that can work without a cloud (internet) connection. What I'm after is a way to see my local solar data (e.g., battery SOC, current and total solar production, current loads, etc.), over just my local network, without the need for it to pass through a remote server, even if I need to run a small computer on just the local network to enable this. In other words, without cloud dependency. I have enough skill to copy/paste (I got Venus OS running on the RPi), but I don't have coding skills. Thanks in advance for ideas and tales of firsthand experience.