velog

Description

VE.Direct serial data stream parser. Use this utility to parse and log data from your Victron Energy devices to:

• csv file
• Graphite's carbon database
• Prometheus exporter

Dependencies

General:

sudo apt install build-essential automake libcunit1-dev

For Prometheus exporter:

sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev

and

libprom-dev
libpromhttp-dev

available here

Compiling

General (csv and Graphite support):

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

Compile with Prometheus support:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --enable-prometheus
$ make

Usage

velog -i /dev/serial/by-id/usb-VE_Direct_cable-port0 -o log.csv -r 1

-i [Serial device]
-o [Logfile name]
-r [Log rotate interval in days]
-g [send to graphite host]
-d [graphite device id]
-p [Export to Prometheus (default port 9110)]
-e [Port for Prometheus exporter]

Contrib

Graphite example:

see contrib/graphite/ for example graphing setup logging data to carbon-cache and graphing with graphite on raspberry pi.

Prometheus example:

see contrib/prometheus/ for Prometheus configuration

Licence

GPL Version 3

See COPYING for details