Rover Configuration

Documentation for configuring SolarThing to monitor a Renogy Rover (or supported product).

First, run these commands:

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cd <your directory that contains docker-compose.yml>/<rover or main or whatever you called it>

Now it’s time to create a configuration file. You can use your editor of choice. For simplicity, the examples use nano.

nano config/base.json

The name base.json is important. It is possible to use a different file name, but is not recommended.

You can now paste this into the file:

{
  "type": "request",
  "source": "default",
  "fragment": 2,
  "unique": 30,
  "database_config": {
    "databases": [
    ]
  },
  "request": [
    {
      "type": "modbus",
      "io": "config/rover_serial.json",
      "devices": {
        "1": {
          "type": "rover"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

We will go over what all of this configuration means later, but for now let’s focus on "1". That represents the address of the modbus device. If the address is not 1, you should know the correct address from Devices not detected.

Save the file. Now we need to create another file:

nano config/rover_serial.json

You’ll notice it has the same name as the "io" property in base.json. We are now configuring the path to the serial port.

You can paste this into the file:

{
  "type": "serial",
  "port": "/dev/ttyUSB0"
}

Depending on the path to your serial port, you may need to change "/dev/ttyUSB0" to something different.

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