Solar Pi

A Raspberry Pi based, Flask powered photovoltaic monitor

Demo at http://solarpi.tafkas.net

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To run the Solar Pi you need

• A Linux server running Python 2.7 (e.g. Raspberry Pi running Raspbian)
• SQLite3 installed

Installation

• Clone the repostory

    $ git clone git@github.com:Tafkas/solarpi.git solarpi
  

• create a virtual enviroment and activate it

    $ virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python .venv
    $ source .venv/bin/activate
  

• install dependencies

    $ (.venv) pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
  

• create the SQLite database

    $ sqlite3 dev.db
    $ cat db_schema.sql | sqlite3 dev.db
  

• run the server

    $ (.venv) python manage.py server