mechkit / SPD

Generate electrical drawings of photovoltaic systems.

Plans machine

Updated: 2015-03-17

Goal

To generate a selection of FSEC pre-approved PV system drawings that will cover a majority of Florida installations.

Links

• Meteor version
• Old demo
• Old demo, with defaults

Build instructions

Install:

• Nodejs

• Meteor

• Ghostscript

  • On Debian/Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install ghostscript
    

• Phantomjs

  • Follow instructions to build phantomjs, or..

  • At FSEC

    • Windows

      look in this folder for the download and install script \shares.fsec.ucf.edu\PUBLIC\SSR\Projects\SPD\Code\PDF creation\phantomjs proof of concept\ubuntu14_install_phantomjs198.sh \shares.fsec.ucf.edu\PUBLIC\SSR\Projects\SPD\Code\PDF creation\phantomjs proof of concept\phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

    • Linux

      In file explorer: smb://shares/public/SSR/Projects/SPD/Code/PDF%20creation/phantomjs%20proof%20of%20concept/

      copy to local:

      • ubuntu14_install_phantomjs198.sh
      • phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

  • Run:

  chmod +x ubuntu14_install_phantomjs198.sh
  sudo ./ubuntu14_install_phantomjs198.sh
  phantomjs --version
  

• Specsheet share

  • Install cifs utils

    $sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
    

  • Create a directory for the share to mount to:

    $sudo mkdir /mnt/SPD
    

  • Mount the share

    $mount -t cifs //shares.fsec.ucf.edu/SPD /mnt/SPD -o username=SHARE_USERNAME_HERE,noexec
    

  • Create a symbolic link

    $ln -s /mnt/SPD/spec_sheets /your/git/directory/SPD/private/.#specsheet
    

Start server:

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