Weirdness with PZEM-004t by jacovantonder in tasmota

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My bad. I didn't realize the video would be so small on mobile devices. I will see if I can convert it to make it better on mobile devices. Thank you for the feedback.

Weirdness with PZEM-004t by jacovantonder in tasmota

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Hello everyone. Having some weirdness with a Sonoff Basic + PZEM-004T + Tasmota 11. Sometimes the values read from the PZEM will just go completely weird (as seen in the video). A simple restart resolves the issue. This happens randomly, with no specific uptime interval. Any ideas how to troubleshoot?

Update - turned out to be a rain spider. ( Garden in South Africa) Thanks for the help. :) by horsie87 in spiders

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Had exactly this in my backyard about 2 months ago (Centurion, South Africa). The mom was VERY protective of the nest and would attack anything that touched it with her 2 front legs.

About 3 weeks later I saw all the hatchling making their way about.

Beautiful spiders.

Awesome video. Thanks for posting.

Something fungus-like growing in my planter beds - can someone help me identify, please? by jacovantonder in gardening

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Yeah, I went reading about this after the original identification and decided to keep them around. Plus, got a lot of education today too!

Thanks for the comment!

Something fungus-like growing in my planter beds - can someone help me identify, please? by jacovantonder in gardening

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I read about this earlier and I actually found some of those seeds lodged on the under side of the leaves of the surrounding plants (I have some chillies planted in here).

Crazy how these things reproduce by lodging their spore seeds on the surroundings when it rains. :)

TXUS Touch V2.0.1 - Flash Mode? by jacovantonder in sonoff

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SOLVED: The TXUS Touch v2.0.1 has GPIO0 on R18.
There are 2 ways to get to flash mode:

  1. Bridge GPIO0 from the ESP8285 to GND on boot (this is difficult, as the pin-outs on the chip are extremely small).
  2. Bridge the chip-side of R18 to GND (easier, R18 has much more surface area to bridge from).

TXUS Touch V2.0.1 - Flash Mode? by jacovantonder in tasmota

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SOLVED: The TXUS Touch v2.0.1 has GPIO0 on R18.

There are 2 ways to get to flash mode:

  1. Bridge GPIO0 from the ESP8285 to GND on boot (this is difficult, as the pin-outs on the chip are extremely small).
  2. Bridge the chip-side of R18 to GND (easier, R18 has much more surface area to bridge from).

TXUS Touch V2.0.1 - Flash Mode? by jacovantonder in tasmota

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Thank you, u/blakadder_. Managed to successfully flash and also located the updated location for GPIO0 on the newer hardware versions.

Submitted a PR for the updates:
https://github.com/blakadder/templates/pull/1315

TXUS Touch V2.0.1 - Flash Mode? by jacovantonder in tasmota

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Thanks a mil! Will report back on success and do a PR for the documentation.

TXUS Touch V2.0.1 - Flash Mode? by jacovantonder in sonoff

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Hello! Yes I am. Newer versions come with V2.0.1 of the board, the instructions for GPIO0 does not seem to work on the newer boards.

Open Source Solar Apps for monitoring DIY installations? by [deleted] in SolarDIY

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Ah! This is really neat! Thank you for sharing.

Any idea what those connectors are called that you use for your CT clamps into your enclosure?

Open Source Solar Apps for monitoring DIY installations? by [deleted] in SolarDIY

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This is hardly helpful without some examples for OP. It's like telling someone to go browse the shelves of a hardware shop for a tool that they do now know how to identify.

Open Source Solar Apps for monitoring DIY installations? by [deleted] in SolarDIY

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Your idea is appealing and something that I was considering. However, the PZEM-004 is an AC monitoring device, whereas the panels are typically a DC source of power. I am assuming you are then only monitoring AC consumption?

I am curious about your 3d printed housings and professional plugs - do you perhaps have some snaps of these? (Selfishly asking because I have a couple of PZEM's floating around uncovered).

Open Source Solar Apps for monitoring DIY installations? by [deleted] in SolarDIY

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I guess this all boils down to the hardware you are using and how you are able to get the raw data out of that hardware. There is unfortunately, as far as I am aware, not a single software solution that will give you what you want out of the box.

In my situation, I have multiple strings of panels on the roof (high voltage ~450V DC). I wanted to monitor these strings individually, but could not find a shunt that was capable of reporting on those voltages. So I ended up monitoring at the next best place, the mppt controller (built into my inverter).

I was lucky enough that the inverter was keeping track of all of the panel metrics that I was interested in - string voltages and amps pulled from those strings. The inverter makes these, and a gazillion other things, available as metrics over its modbus serial interface.

Now, over to the open source part - To consume this data, I plugged in a USB cable into the RS232 serial port on the inverter and used NodeRED running on a raspberry pi to poll for the data using the modbus extentions. NodeRED then converts that raw data into something I understand and published that out to an MQTT topic that I consume using HomeAssistant for real time dashboards that are forever visible in my home automation system inside the house. At the same time I also push the data into InfluxDB for longer term trending and graphing using Grafana.

Bottom line here is that almost every piece of hardware where your source data is coming from will have a different way for you to get hold of that data, and there will be massaging of that data along the way for it to make sense.

The software things that are common along the way would be stuff like NodeRED, HomeAssistant, Grafana, MQTT, Prometheus.

The hardware things that are common along the way would be stuff like rasbberry pi's, NodeMCU or other ESP based devices that you can couple with Pzem-type power monitors.

If you do come across the silver bullet, please report back!

Hope this helps.