inverter-bot/README.md

inverter-bot

This is a Telegram bot for querying information from an InfiniSolar V family of hybrid solar inverters, in particular inverters supported by isv utility, which is an older version of infinisolarctl from infinisolar-tools package.

It supports querying general status, such as battery voltage or power usage, printing amounts of energy generated in the last days, dumping status or rated information and more.

It requires Python 3.6+ or so.

Configuration

Configuration is stored in config.ini file in ~/.config/inverter-bot.

Config example:

token=YOUR_TOKEN
admins=
        123456     ; admin id
        000123   ; another admin id
isv_bin=/path/to/isv
use_sudo=0

Only users in admins are allowed to use the bot.

Launching with systemd

Create a service file /etc/systemd/system/inverter-bot.service with the following content (changing stuff like paths):

[Unit]
Description=inverter bot
After=network.target

[Service]
User=user
Group=user
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=python3 /home/user/inverter-bot/main.py
WorkingDirectory=/home/user/inverter-bot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable and start the service:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable inverter-bot
systemctl start inverter-bot

License

BSD-2c