Building a real-time power monitoring dashboard
Like so many other people in South Africa, the unreliability of our power grid have forced me into taking the plunge and investing in an inverter with a lithium backup battery.
TL;DR
I used a raspberrypi to retrieve modbus data from the SunSynk inverter via a custom RS485 RJ45 to USB cable, logged the data into a MySQL table via a Nodejs app, and then used Grafana to display the data in a custom dashboard.
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