mincequi / iotic

iotic is an IoT device manager which is dead simple to use. Its main feature is pv surplus charging of your electric vehicle.

iotic

Iotic is a multi-purpose IoT device manager which focuses on electric and thermal energy management. Its main feature is pv surplus charging of your electric vehicle.

Features

Device support

Solar inverters

Currently, the following SunSpec models are supported: 101, 103, 160, 203. So, ANY solar inverter and smart meter that supports SunSpec / Modbus should also be supported here. As of now, the following devices are successfully tested:

• SMA STP8.0-3AV-40 / STP10.0-3AV-40
• SMA STP 15000TL-30 / 20000TL-30 /25000TL-30
• SMA SB 3000TL-21 / 3600TL-21 / 4000TL-21 / 5000TL-21

Smart meters

• elgris SMART METER WiFi

EV stations

• go-e Charger

Smart plugs/relays

• Shelly 1 / 1PM

Auto detection

All supporterd things are automatically discovered using different technologies:

Modbus SunSpec devices

Iotic will scan your subnet with a mask of /24. E.g. if an instance is running on a host with IPv4 address 192.168.12.34, all IP addresses from 192.168.12.1 - 192.168.12.254 will be port scanned on port 502. If a valid SunSpec header is returned, the host will be considered as a valid SunSpec device. This incoporates a small limitation, that currently there is only one Modbus device per host address supported, even though Modbus TCP would support multiple SunSpec devices per IP address.

HTTP devices

Devices with an HTTP API are discovered using mDNS service discovery (like go-eCharger and Shelly).

PV surplus electric vehicle charging

iotic implements several strategies to realize PC surplus charging of electric vehicles. It will auto-adapt the charging power to PV excess.

Requirements

• C++17
• Qt5 or Qt6: Core Network SerialBus
• Flutter

Installation (Debian/Ubuntu)

Raspberry Pi OS

You need at least Bookworm (not working with Bullseye). Installation

wget https://github.com/mincequi/iotic/releases/download/v0.3.1/iotic_0.3.1_armhf.deb
sudo apt install ./iotic_0.3.1_armhf.deb

Starting

sudo systemctl start iotic.service               # start-up service.
sudo systemctl enable iotic.service              # start-up service on each reboot.

Compiling (Debian/Ubuntu)

Prerequisites

sudo apt install \
  build-essential \
  cmake \
  git \
  snapd \
  libboost-dev \
  qt6-base-dev

sudo snap install flutter --classic
flutter   # init flutter first

git clone https://github.com/mincequi/iotic
cd iotic/src/webapp
flutter build web --web-renderer html
cd ../..
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

MQTT API

After being connected, the discovered things will be polled and published via MQTT every 5 seconds.

The MQTT topic follows this scheme: /iotic_<mac address>/<unique sunspec id>/<model id>/. Under this topic there are two sub-topics: live and stats. The statistics show the min/max values of the current day, as well as some other collected information. Thus, the stats topic will not be updated as often as the live topic, which gets an update every 3 seconds.

The payload is formatted as JSON.

Planned features

• command line interface
• read battery inverters
• InfluxDB