chuckp
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Hi guy's
Merry Christmas to you all.
I opened up a few small presents this morning and it appears that the Mrs does actually listen to me when I prattle on about batteries etc. I've been telling her about these amazing dashboards I've seen to display battery/solar data.
So anyway I'm now the proud owner of a Raspberry Pi 3B, Raspberry Pi 3B+ (she got me both as she didn't know what one is needed), a Pi enclosure with fan, a 5V 3A switched power supply, a USB to TTL converer, loads of header leads and a 64 GB micro sd card. I guess she takes a lot more notice than I give her credit for.
So now I have this major issue. I've absolutely no idea how this stuff works, how to program it or even where to start.
If at the very least i could remotely access the information from my Chinese BMS it would be amazing.
If I could also display the data from my solar inverters and my charger/inverter that would be totally awesome.
Can anyone provide me with an idiots guide to the best learning sources for a complete noob, I've been surfing the web all day and I'm even more confused now than I was this morning if thats even possible.
Or if someone has done something already that I could attempt to play with and promptly screw up that would be cool.
Daromer I put your ISO on the Pi 3B, I've managed to boot it up and display it all on a monitor, (for me that's a bonus), but have no idea how to get the info from my equipment into it and how to make it work.
Thanks in advance guy's for any help Chuck
Happy Christmas
Merry Christmas to you all.
I opened up a few small presents this morning and it appears that the Mrs does actually listen to me when I prattle on about batteries etc. I've been telling her about these amazing dashboards I've seen to display battery/solar data.
So anyway I'm now the proud owner of a Raspberry Pi 3B, Raspberry Pi 3B+ (she got me both as she didn't know what one is needed), a Pi enclosure with fan, a 5V 3A switched power supply, a USB to TTL converer, loads of header leads and a 64 GB micro sd card. I guess she takes a lot more notice than I give her credit for.
So now I have this major issue. I've absolutely no idea how this stuff works, how to program it or even where to start.
If at the very least i could remotely access the information from my Chinese BMS it would be amazing.
If I could also display the data from my solar inverters and my charger/inverter that would be totally awesome.
Can anyone provide me with an idiots guide to the best learning sources for a complete noob, I've been surfing the web all day and I'm even more confused now than I was this morning if thats even possible.
Or if someone has done something already that I could attempt to play with and promptly screw up that would be cool.
Daromer I put your ISO on the Pi 3B, I've managed to boot it up and display it all on a monitor, (for me that's a bonus), but have no idea how to get the info from my equipment into it and how to make it work.
Thanks in advance guy's for any help Chuck
Happy Christmas