Solar Assistant on VM?

[vietxtlife]

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

 

[Sennen]

Load SolarAssistant on Raspberry Pi

Flash SolarAssistant on a Raspberry Pi in a few easy steps.

solar-assistant.io

 

[RandomPlanet]

Im interested in doing this too... Ill check in to it ... I also use Proxmox....

 

[Mkgough]

As do I but you gotta get Raspbian running in Proxmox and you need a cable to connect to the inverter soooo USB required.

 

[Mreeves78]

I am in the process of getting Raspian Desktop OS installed in my Proxmox Server. I am not sure how I will load SolarAssistant on it yet but gonna try and figure it out. Getting it to run in Portainer would be even cooler but baby steps.

 

[TM48]

If you figure out how to make ARM based code run on a X-86 based platform let me know. I'm not aware that an emulator exists but I may just not know.

 

[Mreeves78]

If you figure out how to make ARM based code run on a X-86 based platform let me know. I'm not aware that an emulator exists but I may just not know.

I got raspberry desktop OS to run no problem on X86 hardware in a proxmox but I installed this from an ISO file from the Raspberry Pi homepage. I converted the downloaded SolarAssistant SD card Image from the SolarAssistant page and used the qemu convert command to change the .img file to a .qcow2 file that I was able to attach as a secondary harddrive to this VM. I can boot this VM and browse the files on the second harddrive but they are not yet running. I saw an interesting thread in this forum where someone used a orange pi that had onboard storage and used a DD command to copy the image onto it and get it working. I may experiment with that. I am unfamiliar with that DD command.

 

[Mreeves78]

C

Thread 'Issues installing Solar Assistant on Raspberry Pi'

May 3, 2023

Hi all,

I purchased Solar Assistant earlier today to install on an existing Raspberry Pi 4b that is already running home assistant.

I made the purchase and then downloaded the raspberry Pi image, 2022-06-28-solar-assistant.img.
I then removed the existing and working SD card from the Pi and used Balena Etcher to write the image - which completed successfully.
I put the SD card back in the Pi, connect an ethernet cable, and boot it up. I can see the SolarAssistant SSID being broadcast by the Pi and also see it on the wired network.

If i then hit the web ui with a browser to by going to...

• chf_uk
• Replies: 26
• Forum: Software

This is where I read about the DD command and the Orange Pi onboard storage.

 

[drewmsmith]

I know I'm digging this thread up from quite a while ago, but I was able to successfully boot solar assistant as a VM in proxmox on an x86 host. The tutorial detailed in this thread https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/h...ry-pi-os-images-and-import-to-proxmox.146837/ mostly just works as solar assistant is built on top of Raspbian. It's fairly straight forward, but takes a while because of the multiple boots required to set everything up. Keep in mind this is emulating ARM, so it will likely run poorly and probably consume way more power than the pi. Anyway, the VM boots and I'm able to shell into it but the solar assistant site never loads. It looks to me like some aspect of the inital boot/setup process is failing when it tries to establish a connection between the database and the webserver, but my linux fu is lacking. Anyway if someone with some leet linux skills wants to take a crack at it I'd love to get this working, even just as a proof of concept.