#Run wxtoimg on raspberry pi 2 b code#
It took another year of working weekends and nights to get it in sufficient shape to include in the official code base. Here I am with my Raspberry Pi / Victron test rig I had some prior experience with the build system anyway, and despite being down with the flu at the time, the first proof of concept version was booting by the end of the week. So when Matthijs asked in July 2016 if there was anyone who could do a port of Venus to the Raspberry Pi, I thought that it couldn’t be that hard. As always, one thing led to another and soon I was subscribed to the mailing list and involved in other activities.
It wasn’t long before I had my own python code for monitoring the inverter output. The MultiPlus turned out to be a geek’s dream, with a well-documented communication protocol. Though I subsequently became a computer programmer, that passion for solar power remained, so that when our local power generation company in South Africa had supply problems in 2013, I ended up purchasing a Victron Multiplus to power my home office instead of doing what everyone else was doing, namely to buy a cheap petrol generator. Some years on, after I grew interested in hobby electronics in high school, a lightning-bolt destroyed most of the equipment and I got my first practical shot at creating something useful: A simple switching charge controller.
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