Monitoring / Data collection utility for Renogy controllers

[mickwheelz]

I recently started building a little solar setup in my lockup, and happened to come across this forum when looking at ways to collect data from the Renogy Wanderer controller I bought. My plan was to get the data in to my home automation system (Home Assistant).

I found quite a lot of useful information here and decided to build my own data collection utility, it takes the data from the controller and publishes it to a MQTT bus that Home Assistant (or anything else that can use MQTT.. e.g Grafana) can use.

It's open source and available on GitHub here: https://github.com/mickwheelz/NodeRenogy

It's currently running on a Raspberry Pi Zero that is connected to my controller and seems to be working quite well.

I'd love to get some feedback and see what people think!

 

[saxon11]

I'll look to give this a try for sure. I've just setup me new small system and have an extra Rasberry Pi B+. I just need to get a Renogy controller.

 

[Kamkelsey]

Just found this and started using it. Works great monitoring a Rich Solar branded ml2420 and Weize branded ml2430. It's been providing info to my home assistant setup for about a week with no issues.

 

[ADDvanced]

Is there anything like this that does not require programming knowledge? I'm fine wiring things and making adaptor cables but this looks like way too much coding for me.