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2. Install the pre configured Raspberry Pi image

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Graham Ross edited this page Oct 31, 2022 · 3 revisions

Install the pre-configured SD card image.

A pre-configured raspberry Pi image is available at PylonToMQTT/releases. The image contain all the required components along with a sample grafana dashboard to view your battery data. note: the image is the headless Raspberry Pi OS Lite image (so no desktop environment).

On a windows 10 PC;

  • download and install balenaEtcher from https://www.balena.io/etcher/
  • Insert a empty SD card.
  • Run balenaEtcher and select download from url (Balena.etcher has to run as administrator)
  • enter https://github.com/ClassicDIY/PylonToMQTT/releases/download/V1.2.2/Rpi.img.xz
  • select the target SD card and Flash!
  • When complete, eject the SD card and insert it into your raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi setup

  • Power up the Pi, after a minute you can use putty or window terminal to ssh to the pi using ssh pi@battery.local (password is: raspberry)

  • note: if you have previously connected to your pi using ssh with a different image, you may need to delete the entry in your %HOMEPATH%.ssh\known_hosts file that refers to your pi's IP address. From the command prompt on windows, run: notepad %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\known_hosts delete the line with your pi's IP or with the battery.local hostname.

  • run sudo raspi-config select "8 Update" then select "6 Advanced Options" then "A1 Expand Filesystem" "back" and "Finish" (might reboot on finish).

  • login again with ssh pi@battery.local

Update the OS

  • sudo apt update

  • sudo apt upgrade -y

  • Plug in the battery console cable to one of the pi's USB ports.

  • sudo reboot now

  • Wait a couple of minutes for it to start up before proceeding to checking the docker containers with Portainer-ce.

Portainer-ce:

  • Browse http://battery.local:9000 user: admin password: password1234
  • Make sure all containers are running, click on local then containers, select and start any stopped containers. You can view the logs of the containers by clicking the "logs" quick action

Grafana:

  • Browse http://battery.local:3000 to open grafana and select "Jakiper Battery" in "Dashboards->Browse" (default user/password is admin/admin)

Other containers:

  • InfluxDB: user/password is dba/supremo, configured database name: mqtt_pylon (use 'exec console' in portainer quick actions) then 'influx'
  • mosquitto broker has no user/password user mqtt.fx to view battery.local:1883
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