Solar Assistant : Anyone running it without a dedicated Rasberry Pi?

[mangler]

I am looking at Solar Assistant to monitor my solar inverters (Gowatt Min 10000 TL-XH-US and soon to be installed SRNE HF4850U80-H for outages). One thing that is holding me back is running a dedicated Rasberry Pi for it. I plan on setting up one "high power" computer so i can run all my interface needs without multiple power supplies and dedicated small computers all over the place (pi-hole, frigate, solar assiatant, home assistant etc. ideally running off one one pc).

I know it is not officially supported, but is anyone successfully running Solar Assistant without a Pi (Virtual machine, docker etc.?). Ideally on a linux machine as this is what I will be setting up.

 

[wildbillpdx]

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Thread 'Solar Assistant on VM?'

Feb 26, 2024

Anyone able to get solar assistant to run on vm like proxmox? I have 3 inverter that is made by different brands, one solar assistant on raspberry pi could not use connect to all 3 inverters that are made by 2 different brand ie EG4 and POWMR, so i wonder anyone able to get solar assistant to run on VM. Thanks

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[PCbyTC]

I am looking at Solar Assistant to monitor my solar inverters (Gowatt Min 10000 TL-XH-US and soon to be installed SRNE HF4850U80-H for outages). One thing that is holding me back is running a dedicated Rasberry Pi for it. I plan on setting up one "high power" computer so i can run all my interface needs without multiple power supplies and dedicated small computers all over the place (pi-hole, frigate, solar assiatant, home assistant etc. ideally running off one one pc).

I know it is not officially supported, but is anyone successfully running Solar Assistant without a Pi (Virtual machine, docker etc.?). Ideally on a linux machine as this is what I will be setting up.

That's ironic, as I was trying to boot the SA Boot image on a bunch of different platforms yesterday, to absolutely no avail. So, I bought a Raspberry Pi5 kit (with box) and a 48V/5V power supply for it for under $200. I'm hopeful to expand further with it into other home automation I already have, and hopefully get a little better control of my EG4-6000XP's, which is my primary goal. So No, you need a Pi. You can use almost ANY Raspberry Pi, there are cheaper options (like $20 cheap) and I'm with you, I have a VM server also and I hate having little hardware bits hanging on my network.

 

[Madcodger]

FWIW, I've been running for many months using just a 3B+ RPi I had laying around at the time and it works great. I can't see any lag at all, and it's feeding data into its web browser and Home Assistant. Doesn't take much processing power to have a great system.

 

[PCbyTC]

FWIW, I've been running for many months using just a 3B+ RPi I had laying around at the time and it works great. I can't see any lag at all, and it's feeding data into its web browser and Home Assistant. Doesn't take much processing power to have a great system.

Well, my Pi kit gets delivered today with the Victron cable and 48v/5V supply, so we shall see! I hear many good things. I run a stack of generic lifepo4 batteries so my EG4 really doesn't have a clue what to do with just BattVolts, but my Victron is always +-5% accurate of my capacity.