Access Grafana without a login screen
Unlike Grafana 5, we can't use the ' old' method of a proxy login to get a cookie for semi-permanent login. This post investigates options to achieve the goal of: Provide a user a "secret" …
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IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB v1
This post describes how to setup IotaWatt on a single-database (multi-tenant) arrangement in Influx. Previously I described single database setup for Influx, Grafana and IotaWatt. Much of that information is relevant, but changes are noted …
Hacking the Sungrow 5 Inverter
This inverter has a WiFi connection and opens ports 80 (password protected) and 502 (modbus). It's possible to read the modbus registers. There's a handy script that's done all the hard work. This can import …
Access Grafana v5 via token without login screen
This works for Grafana v5. Grafana v6 has removed this functionality for security reasons. This explains how I implemented a previously outlined solution , in a step-by-step fashion. I initially struggled to get this running. …
Investigating for IotaWatt, AWS, InfluxDB and Grafana
I've previously used EmonCMS to log power and energy data from a IotaWatt / EmonTx system. This works well, but I've been looking for a flexible and fast alternative. The combination of IotaWatt, InfluxDB and …
Tips for InfluxDB and Grafana when using IotaWatt
This post is a collection of tips, in no particular order. It follows on from Iotawatt, InfluxDB and Grafana Setup which is a step-by-step. Do that first, then tweak with these. Snippets for Influx # …
Sizing a Battery and Solar System with Phisaver Data
This follows how I sized a solar and battery system for my house, using energy monitoring data from phisaver . An example of the data is below: Sizing the System Firstly I checked the daily …
Iotawatt: Single Tenant InfluxDB and Grafana Setup
This post summarises how I configure IotaWatt, InfluxDB and Grafana to display energy consumption. It uses an AWS EC2 instance. See installation for preliminary details and IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB # bash influx # …
Improving Fridge Performance
As recent client had a few fridges, including wine fridges. They varied in age. Initial PhiSaver analysis over a few weeks showed "Power" was the major user. Power includes all powerpoints in this case. Often …
Installing Grafana, InfluxDB, Apache2 on AWS EC2: Step by Step
A medium-performance setup for Grafana on AWS. Private files at github . Setup the instance t3.large, Ubuntu 18 (or AWS Linux 2) as I'm familiar with it Seperate root and data disks Security group with …
Consideration for moving to production with InfluxDB, Grafana and AWS EC2
Current Setup This provides background - see Installing Grafana, InfluxDB, Apache2 on AWS EC2: Step by Step . So I've got an InfluxDB collecting time-series data from a half a dozen IoT devices. They feed …