Will thous "Raspberry" pi instructions be the same for an "Orange", cuz I don't know if there is a difference? been seeing instructions for the Rasberry thinking an Orange is some thing else, so I haven't been looking them over.These are the directions I used for my Orange Pi 3 LTS.
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Installation is the same for all supported devices. It will work with your Orange Pi 3 LTS.
Something I needed to point out for anyone using the automated backup script I posted a few pages ago. Makes sure you make a cron job to delete backups older than a certain date or you will run out of disk space eventually 
Heres is the script I made for it.
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#!/bin/sh
cd /backups/backupfiles
find /backups/backupfiles -name "*.bz2" -type f -mtime +30 -delete
df -h
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Run this daily or ever so often. It deletes any backups older than 30 days.
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#!/bin/sh
cd /backups/backupfiles
find /backups/backupfiles -name "*.bz2" -type f -mtime +30 -delete
df -h
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Run this daily or ever so often. It deletes any backups older than 30 days.
I use RPi4 for Solar Assistant instead of Orange. 4 invertors connected through RS485 to USB and 6 batteries connected in passive mode to fifth USB of USB HUB with external power (Ugreen). Unfortunately the data from inverters has terribly long update interval from several seconds to several minutes. At the same moment battery data refreshes every second. Any idea how to solve the issue?
houseofancients
Solar Wizard
What inverters we talking about ?
4 pcs Deye hybrid 6kW in parallel. I tried to connect 1 inverter and data was updated every couple seconds. But as soon as I connect more than one inverter it is becaming slow. There were no such problem with the Orange LTS. Inverters update immideatly through solarman local integration too.
houseofancients
Solar Wizard
Have 2 12k 3 phase deye/sunsynk inverters connect to Raspi pi 4, and no such problem..
Maybe usb hub issue ?
It seems to me I solved the problem! I have automation in Home Assistant that uses PV Power and several more sensors to set Max Sell power through mqtt every 10 second. After I replaced 4 SA sensors by relevant Solarman sensors, mqtt started working properly. It looks like it was being blocked by it self. But I am not sure) Any way all is good now! Thank you!
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