PV SImulator

This is a Python Django projects that at interval simulates power usages from the home

Depeendencies

• Python 3
• Django
• Django rest framework
• Celery
• RabbitMQ

Setup

(Note: This setup covers for only linux debian users )

• First intall VirtualEnv to conatinerize app sudo apt-get install virtualenv

• Create a python3 virtual env to run the app virtualenv env --python=python3

• Active the virtulenv source env/bin/activate

• Clone project from git git clone https://github.com/Austyns/pvSimulator.git

• cd into the project root and install project dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install rabitMQ if not setup yet to serve as broker for celery

  • sudo apt-get install -y erlang
  • sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

• Enable RabbitMQ

  • sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
  • sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server

• Run migration to generate models python manage.py migrate

• Serve the project locally python manage.my runserver

• Start Celery for async task queue From Project root run celery -A pvSimulator worker -l info -B

Previewing

• Once the app is started, go to the browser http://localhost:8000 to see a realtime chat that plots meter readings againt time.

• You can also preview the task queue by starting the Celery monitoring app ( Flower)

  • celery -A pvSimulator flower -l info
  • Then preview from http://localhost:5555

• Outputs are also available from project root outputs/ folder

Thank you