powermon

Power Monitoring Set-Up for P1 (tailored for BE)

basic setup

create the following directories where the docker-compose file is located:

• .config
• .configmqtt
• .log
• .influxdb
• .grafana

create a basic mqtt config

• in the .configmqtt folder, create a file mosquitto.conf which contains:
  • log_dest file /mosquitto/log/mosquitto.log
  • connection_messages false
  • listener 1883
  • allow_anonymous true

running the compose file

• execute docker-compose up -d

set-up grafana

• connect to your grafana instance via http://dockerhost:3000
• follow the first-run wizard
• add your influx db with the username / password defined in the docker-compose.yaml file
• your influx db is running on dockerhost:8086

set-up node-red

• connect to node-red via http://dockerhost:1880
• add nodes to your palette - you need:
  • node-red-contrib-modbus (for SMA Monitoring)
  • node-red-contrib-influxdb
  • node-red-contrib-interval
• you can then import flows.json
• configure mqtt and the influxdb service in node-red and deploy it
• your data should now be going to influx db in 10 second intervals

create dashboards in grafana

• you can now create dashboards to your liking in Grafana