Want to add some logging capabilities to my solar set up. I originally thought I would have to roll my own, or at least do a bit of python coding, but Vectron offers products to do most of the work for you. I downloaded and ran their Venus OS on my Raspberry Pi 4. Right now I used the Pi as an Ubuntu desktop machine, booting from a USB SDD. I flashed a microSD card, powered down, unplugged the USB drive, inserted the microSD card and turned the power back on. Booted the first time. Changed the “headless” file, rebooted and got the graphical user interface. Played around with the menus a bit. Impressive stuff. It will connect to various pieces of equipment and log data to their VRM cloud. Probably going to replace my Raspberry Pi 4 with a new Raspberry Pi 5 and maybe I’ll use my old Pi 4 for the solar installation. Bought the ve.direct cable and will give it a test soon.

