Tuesday, August 06, 2024

ePaper solar power monitor with Lilygo T5

The house here has 6KW of solar power, when the sun is shining and hitting the panels. I like to watch what's being generated so I can use power from the sun if available so some time ago I reverse engineered the Envoy inverter's web display and made some M5 Stack devices that display the info. They have an ESP-32 for Wifi built in. 

Sometimes the sun also shines on the LCD making it hard to see so I've just ported my code to a Lilygo T5-2.13 E-Paper board also with an ESP32.


E-paper is highly visible although refreshing is a bit slow and ugly. The Arduino compatible libraries are available here. Things didn't quite compile as given but I was able to work through it.

The E-Paper board uses negligible power when sleeping, and the display remains visible, so these could be run from a small battery if desired.

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