DOC: Plutonium reporter

Contents:

• Introduction to Plutonium
  • Directory structure
  • CherryPy configuration (config.py)
    • CherryPy configuration file (plutonium.ini)
    • Configuration classes and functions
  • CherryPy server (chttpd.py)
    • Modules and web paths
  • Index (index.py)
  • Indices and tables

Scope

This document covers the software part of the reporter, although it consists of a multitude of hw technologies, please keep that in mind.

Purpose

Delivering aggregated and comprehensive representation of data-value pairs in such a way, that even a complete idiot can read them. This project is created by AND for me.

In short, this application spins up a web server and on its address plots and displays values gathered from various sources.

An example granted: https://bastart.spoton.cz

Sources

The sources for feeding the Plutonium include:

• Davis Vantage vue weather station (with a couple HW mods)
• Victron MPPT solar converter (Utilizing the Victron Direct RS232 protocol)
• CPU, MEM, DISK, (W)LAN statistics, plotted

• Custom ESP8266 data loggers

  • Temp / Humidity + battery logging
  • Current monitoring for LED lighting

Discrepancies and hardware dependencies

Obviously, all the monitoring cannot be done without proper HW equipment. Although this server is primarily aimed at use on a Raspberry PI, it can be installed on an old notebook, or similar, as the platform is Python3 and thus independent of the OS.

Solar / MPPT

• Victron MPPT solar charge controller (Bluesolar)
• RS232 -> USB or similar, to get the data to RasPi

Davis Vantage Vue

• Obviously the Davis Vantage Vue weather station
• The CC1101 / wireless version
• arduino mini / Uno @ 3.3V
• CC1101 receiver with a couple other components

RasPI statistics

• Just the RasPI

ESP8266 stuff

• basically anything that can feed into the influxDB.

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page