I'm interested in how you interface the Pi with the Mate. Any info appreciated. The entire project is up on github, (link is in my previous post). The Pi is running a python script which is consuming the UDP data stream from the MATE3. It then formats that as json and sends it on to a web server an...

There are many threads for people trying to get this sort of bridging and that sort of bridging. Access points, hot spots, this distro and that. I'm struggling to get my own problem to work and I find the other threads have different and conflicting information, with little explanation of the mechan...

As a follow-up to my previous post. I have been using the Raspberry Pi to collect a data stream from Outback Power equipment (specifically a Mate3). I got the original project from Jesus Perez, but I've been making a lot of changes and I pushed it up to github: https://github.com/instanttim/monitorm...

I just bought a Raspberry Pi, and am going to use some open source python scripts to collect data from the Mate3. I then plan on using that data to control home automation tasks, mostly to turn certain outlets on/off based on the charge state... I haven't decided on all the components and technologi...