Solarflow Statuspage and Control

The Solarflow Statuspage is an alternative to the mobile app. It gives a quick overview of the status of the hub, providing realtime data of the output to home, the current solar power generated and the battery charging power as well as the temperature nad individual battiers connected to your hub. It also allows you manually to control the output to home and the battery charging/discahrgin limits. Additionally the statuspage can push the data it reads from Zendure's cloud service to a local MQTT broker so that you can use it for further processing (e.g. homeautomation integration).

How to use

I recommend to run the solarflow statuspage in a docker container to avoid any dependency issues.

You will need a Zendure Account. This is the login information you would also use with the Zendure Mobile App.

Online/Offline mode

The statuspage has two ways to aquire the hubs telemetry data: online/offline. In online mode it will connect to Zendure's Cloud MQTT to retrieve the telemtry data. You will need to provide your Zendure credentials (ZEN_USER and ZEN_PASSWD) as environment variables. In offline mode it expects the telemetry data already reported (and transformed) in your local MQTT. This is an advanced usecase where you'll need to take you hub offline first (see solarflow-bt-manager how to achieve this)

Run in Docker

Pull the image with:

docker pull rbrandstaedter/solarflow-statuspage:master

I recommend to create a .env file in the directory where you will start the container. This file should contain your Zendure account credentials and other environment variables needed.

ZEN_USER=<your zendure account>
ZEN_PASSWD=<your zendure account password>
MQTT_HOST = <local mqtt host>
MQTT_PORT = <local mqtt port if different from default>
MQTT_USER = <mqtt user>
MQTT_PWD = <mqtt user password>

For HUB 2000 an additional environment variable is needed as follows

PROD_NAME=SolarFlow Hub 2000

Then run the container and expose it's port to a local port. Make sure to also specify the --online option, as per default the statuspage will try to work offline (meaning it will expect the telemetry data already in MQTT, provided by an offline hub)

docker run --rm --env-file .env -p 127.0.0.1:5000:5000 --name solarflow-statuspage rbrandstaedter/solarflow-statuspage:master --online

Open you browser and point it to http://localhost:5000 You should see a page like above. After a few seconds you should see the charts populate with data.

Run without Docker

Of course you can also run the statuspage without Docker on any OS with appropriate python3 installed. First clone the repository (or manually copy the source from github).

# git clone https://github.com/reinhard-brandstaedter/solarflow-statuspage.git

Install the dependencies (assuming you already have python3)

# cd solarflow-stauspage/src
# pip install -r requirements.txt

Set the required environment variables:

# export ZEN_USER=<your zendure account>
# export ZEN_PASSWD=<your zendure account password>
# export MQTT_HOST = <local mqtt host> 
# export MQTT_PORT = <local mqtt port>
# export MQTT_USER = <mqtt user> (optional)
# export MQTT_PWD = <mqtt user password> (optional)

Start the statuspage

# python3 solarflow-status.py --online

Notes

The Solarflow statuspage is not protected in any way. It is intended to run in a safe local-network environment and not meant to be exposed outside without any additional protection.