Problem?

[artlab23]

Hi Aidan, you mentioned on C. Hickey's discord that you were having issues getting this running... can you elaborate?

[hedley-a]

Thanks for your interest - I cannot read all the live data parameters at once. Suspect mega328 is just not up to the job - However it does what is needed: Remote ON/OFF and midday timed shutdown - logging solar and battery performance was just a nice-to-do add on. I was moving to using a ESP8266 with webserver as monitor interface but it's a 'maybe' and not for this application which need to be really simple to use..
The last group to use the hut did not read the instructions and when the lights went off at midday just assumed the battery was flat! - It's sometimes hard to anticipate people's lack of comprehension...
I do think the project could be useful to others as a simple LAN free wireless alternative to an Epever MT50 remote controller. In which case logging daily energy in-out to ESP EEPROM maybe useful - One nice thing about the EPEVER all you need to do is wake your controller at 23:59 and pull back the stats.

[artlab23]

When you say you cannot read the live data, what are you getting? "Miss read liva(sic)-data, ret val:..", or just nothing at all? I did notice that you're using delay(), rather than the [non-blocking] niceDelay() used by Colin and others... not sure if that's an issue here, or if it's just about feeding the watchdog on the ESP8266.

[artlab23]

But yes, the ATmega328 has it's limitations - easy to come up against them. I rarely use the 8266 these days, as the ESP32 is only a couple of quid more and massively more capable. Currently using an 8266 for the EPEver, but never look at the GUI (ESPUI) since it pumps all the data realtime into an influxdb on a Raspberrypi for display via Grafana. I just hope my chickens appreciate it. ;)

[hedley-a]

Appreciate you looking through my changes to Colin's code... mainly deleting stuff I was not using... I sort of understand his work it's pretty clever, Maybe I will sometime move the code onto an ESP32 or 8266 - but as before I have my doubts whether adding features such as a web interface is worth it for my one application. - Chickens are far more predictable than people!