SolisCloud Solar PV

Rags

I would like my MM to show the status of my Solar PV. There are quite a few modules, but none seem designed to work with the SolisCloud system. They have an API now, so theoretically it is possible (though beyond my rudimentary skills)

Is there anybody who could help with that?

You are in Luck. I also wanted the same functionality, and I approached @dkinet . The MM module was developed by him on my request over a period of almost 6 months . I worked with him in testing out the module. Also based on inputs by me the module has been tweaked to address certain requirements for triggering the GPIO pin to control audio and visual alarms. The module is functional and i have deployed it on my MM. The Inverter data is nicely displayed on the screen All it requires is a little beautification to suit the MM style and looks. I want to take this opportunity to profusely thank the developer for finding time to develop this module.
https://github.com/dekinet/MMM-Soliscloud.git

BKeyport

@Rags I would highly recommend that the module get listed on https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-Party-Modules - with the author’s permission of course.

Kash 0

@Rags Oh my goodness, this is amazing!! Massive thanks to the developer (and you!) for the work already done, such a useful utility to have. Going to try an install it later today - wish me luck!

Kash 0

@Rags I ran into some snags on the install. It could be down to the dependencies - I wasn’t 100% sure where dependencies need to be installed.

I’ve put them in the MagicMirror folder (and they seemed to install fine there) but I get quite a few errors when I then try to run npm install in the Soliscloud folder.

Any advice?

The errors, if that’s helpful:


Magic@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud $ npm install
npm WARN deprecated crypto@1.0.1: This package is no longer supported. It's now a built-in Node module. If you've depended on crypto, you should switch to the one that's built-in.
npm WARN deprecated electron-rebuild@3.2.9: Please use @electron/rebuild moving forward.  There is no API change, just a package name change
npm WARN cleanup Failed to remove some directories [
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native/build/liblzma'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -39,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'ENOTEMPTY',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native/build/liblzma'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ],
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native/build/liblzma'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -39,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'ENOTEMPTY',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/lzma-native/build/liblzma'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ]
npm WARN cleanup ]
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! make: Entering directory '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll/build'
npm ERR!   CXX(target) Release/obj.target/epoll/src/epoll.o
npm ERR! make: Leaving directory '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll/build'
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@9.4.0
npm ERR! gyp info using node@21.6.1 | linux | arm64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.2 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
npm ERR! gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-f',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'make',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll/build/config.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/common.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=/home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/node-gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=/home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'build',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp info spawn make
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [ 'BUILDTYPE=Release', '-C', 'build' ]
npm ERR! In file included from /home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/v8-array-buffer.h:12,
npm ERR!                  from /home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/v8.h:24,
npm ERR!                  from ../src/epoll.cc:11:
npm ERR! /home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/v8-local-handle.h: In instantiation of ‘v8::Local<T>::Local(v8::Local<S>) [with S = v8::Data; T = v8::Value]’:
npm ERR! ../../nan/nan_callbacks_12_inl.h:175:53:   required from here
npm ERR! /home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/v8-local-handle.h:253:42: error: static assertion failed: type check
npm ERR!   253 |     static_assert(std::is_base_of<T, S>::value, "type check");
npm ERR!       |                                          ^~~~~
npm ERR! /home/Magic/.cache/node-gyp/21.6.1/include/node/v8-local-handle.h:253:42: note: ‘std::integral_constant<bool, false>::value’ evaluates to false
npm ERR! make: *** [epoll.target.mk:110: Release/obj.target/epoll/src/epoll.o] Error 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:203:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-v8
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /home/Magic/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Soliscloud/node_modules/epoll
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v21.6.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.4.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/Magic/.npm/_logs/2024-02-10T19_11_46_999Z-debug-0.log```

sdetweil

@Kash-0 npm install, right… not nvm

Kash 0

@sdetweil Yes, sorry! I’ll edit my original post

Rags

@Kash-0 Hello- 0. Well, I would suggest you to delete the existing folder (MMM-Solis Cloud if it exists) and then do a clean install in the MM Modules directory. The dependencies folder is created during NPM install in the same directory and are automatically registered ( I Guess) so there should not be any issue. Lots of my such issues with other modules were resolved by this method thanks to advice from @sdetweil .

sdetweil

@Rags just delete the node_modules folder and the npm install again

Kash 0

@sdetweil said in SolisCloud Solar PV:

just delete the node_modules folder and the npm install again

Thank you both. I deleted the folder node_modules from within the Soliscloud parent folder, then ran npm install again, but it produced the same result. I then deleted the Soliscloud folder and did a clean install of the module. Unfortunately, that also produced the same result. The biggest errors seem to be:

Failed to remove directories: There are warnings indicating that some directories could not be removed during cleanup, specifically related to the lzma-native dependency.

Error during epoll installation: The installation process encounters an error while trying to rebuild the epoll dependency.

Any and all help greatly appreciated :) - also, let me know if I should move the query to the Troubleshooting section.

sdetweil

@Kash-0 a few changes needed to the package…

try my pull request

cd to the module folder

git fetch origin pull/1/head:test_install
git checkout test_install

then npm install should work

npm install