Alternatives to SolarThing

SolarThing isn’t perfect. You might be able to find what you’re looking for elsewhere.

Note

I have not personally tested any of these libraries, so use and rely on them at your own risk.

Renogy Rover Alternatives

These alternatives are for Renogy Rover (SRNE like) charge controllers. At the time of writing, these do not appear to support inverters or hybrid inverter charge controllers.

• https://github.com/corbinbs/solarshed

  • The most complete Python library for communicating with a Renogy Rover

• https://github.com/Olen/solar-monitor

  • Designed to work WITH a Bluetooth Module, rather than a USB to serial cable

• https://github.com/logreposit/renogy-rover-reader-service

  • Written in Kotlin

  • Available on Dockerhub

• https://github.com/menloparkinnovation/renogy-rover

  • Written in JavaScript

• https://github.com/floreno/renogy-rover-modbus

  • Written in JavaScript

• https://github.com/CyberRad/CoopSolar

  • Simple Python script

• https://github.com/amigadad/SolarDataCollection

  • Based off of solarshed, but supports more parameters

Tracer Alternatives

• https://github.com/kasbert/epsolar-tracer

Outback MATE Alternatives

These alternatives are for the Outback MATE 1 and MATE 2.

• https://github.com/jorticus/pymate

  • matecom.py does a similar thing to SolarThing

  • Most of this library is designed to emulate an Outback MATE to communicate with devices using Outback proprietary protocol.

    • If you use these features of this library, a MATE is not actually required.