Connect pvnode with Solectrus

Solectrus is an open-source dashboard for PV monitoring. Its forecast collector supports pvnode as a forecast source and writes the forecast straight into InfluxDB next to your measurements.

Setup

1. Create a site. The collector cannot do this — create your site with all its PV strings once in pvnode and copy the site_id. Tilt, orientation, power and everything else is configured there from now on (Sites & Strings).
2. Get an API key at API keys.
3. Configure the collector:

Code
FORECAST_PROVIDER=pvnode

PVNODE_APIKEY=pvn_my-secret-api-key
PVNODE_SITE_ID=site_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

# Your pvnode plan: false = Free, true = Light, nowcast = Plus
PVNODE_PAID=nowcast

Do not set PVNODE_PAID to a higher plan than you actually subscribe to — the collector would poll more often than your quota allows. There is no polling interval to configure, the collector picks its own request times. On V2 one forecast costs one request, no matter how many strings the site has.

Further options

All remaining variables — InfluxDB, your own request limit, HELIOS configuration and the V1 variables for location and roof planes — are documented by Solectrus:

→ pvnode configuration in the Solectrus documentation