This service emulates a smart shunt configured as energy meter and display the data that comes from a configured dbus ac charger. It is useful if you have and hacked Victron IP22 Smart Charger
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See config.sample.ini and amend for your own needs. Copy to
/data/confascharger_meter_config.ini- In
[Setup]setdebugto enable debug level on logs,deviceis your charger device to get the data via dbus
- In
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- install SetupHelper
- enter
Package Managerin Settings - Enter
Inactive Packages - on
newenter the following:package name->ChargerMeterGitHub user->mebitekGitHub branch or tag->master
- go to
Active packagesand click onChargerMeter- click on
download->proceed - click on
install->proceed
- click on
| velib_pyhton available here
You can turn debug off on config.ini -> debug=false
The log you find in /var/log/ChargerMeter
tail -f -n 200 /data/log/ChargerMeter/current
You can check the status of the service with svstat:
svstat /service/ChargerMeter
It will show something like this:
/service/ChargerMeter: up (pid 10078) 325 seconds
If the number of seconds is always 0 or 1 or any other small number, it means that the service crashes and gets restarted all the time.
When you think that the script crashes, start it directly from the command line:
python /data/ChargerMeter/ChargerMeter.py
and see if it throws any error messages.
Tested with:
- Victron IP22 Smart Charger (with VE.Direct hack)