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Send your daily PV output to Slack. This app sends you a daily Slack message with your PV output of the previous day and compared to the day before.

The message looks like:

You can run this app yourself as well:

• Deploy this app to Heroku
• Set config vars:
  • SOLAREDGE_KEY (Your SolarEdge API Key)
  • SOLAREDGE_SITE (Your SolarEdge site ID)
  • SLACK_WEBHOOK (Slack webhook key)
  • CHANNEL (Slack channel you want to post the message in)
• Add the Heroku scheduler add-on
• Configure the Heroku scheduler add-on to run the following rake task every day: rake daily_post or rake weekly_post

Setting up Triggi Push notifications

To send push notifications about your daily output, I used a service called Triggi. This service allows you to easily connect multiple APIs to each other. I used the Triggi Connector to send a push notification to my phone.

How to set up:

• Configure the Heroku scheduler add-on to run the following rake task every day: rake daily_push_notification
• Download the Triggi app in the appstore and create an account
• Go to https://triggi.com/connect/ and follow the steps to create a connector
• Set config var: TRIGGI_CONNECTOR (This is the private part of the Triggi Connector URL)
• Now, go to the Triggi app and create a new Trigg:
  • When: "Connector" is triggered
  • Then: Send push notification. As part of the push message you need to pass in the variable "passed value"
  • Save Trigg

Based on:

• SolarEdge API: https://www.solaredge.com/sites/default/files/se_monitoring_api.pdf
• SolarEdge gem: https://github.com/martijnrusschen/solaredge
• Slack notifier: https://github.com/stevenosloan/slack-notifier