SunRanker is what I wished existed that day. Connect a system once (Enphase OAuth, or a SolarEdge site ID plus API key) and it reads production daily, shows it in plain language, and emails you when something actually changes. Three alerts only. The connection broke, the monitoring went quiet, or output has been well below your own typical for days. Plus a short monthly review. No daily drip.
It's free, and my own system is on the homepage with its bad months showing. The gray months are my monitoring going quiet.
Would love feedback on the alert thresholds (drop detection is five days under half of a 28 day baseline) and which brand to support next. Tesla makes this hard for third parties.
Stack, for the curious. Laravel, Livewire, MySQL, and one scheduled job doing the nightly checks.
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It would help if you could clarify what your system does, exactly, that is better than the notifications and low production alerts in the 1st party apps
The Enphase app can send you texts, emails, and push alerts for low productions or different errors https://support.enphase.com/s/article/how-to-change-the-noti...
Clarifying what makes your app worth doing the auth or API key setup versus configuring the 1st party app property would make this easier to understand
Every corporation now has me doing all the little jobs they used to employ someone specifically to do. Like book travel for instance. Now I need to be across so many different systems it's ridiculous.
Last time I needed a locksmith (broken lock) it was far cheaper (cost 30%) AND faster(!) to simply order the parts and figure out the jigsaw puzzle myself in an hour.
Most of the time I only have a qualified electrician do minor stuff around the house because legally I have to. For the harder things, I want the electrician though.
And now for some reason it is cheaper for every house hold(!) to become it's own electricity farm then for a society wide specialist organisation do things at scale?
How are we failing so hard? Or is specialisation not really a good thing anymore?
And when you add having investors or worse, being publicly traded, it turns from service to profit extraction.
And they all need to pay tax too. By hiring electrician, you spend your money after tax to pay their tax, because apparently as society we decided company can put cost of existing into costs and deduct it from taxes, but a person can't.
Solar if anything is something that doesn't "silently break", you literally stop getting electricity. Everyone I know with solar has it front and center how much their batteries currently have charged, if the batteries are suddenly 0% and never increases, how wouldn't people notice?
This seems to be for something like you have a bunch of solar panels on a property/land where you don't visit at all, and you use it for solar panels and you only sell the electricity. But the website seems to be marketed towards individuals, not to companies.
Maybe I just misunderstand who this is for?
If you look at your solar stats or battery stats every day, then yeah you'll notice sooner. But most people don't. Most of the apps for these things suck anyway.
I think this makes perfect sense for people with solar who aren't obsessed with it.