If you use www.pvoutput.org then this app is for you!
See the Getting Started guide at http://pvoutputapp.mcdonalds.id.au/
General features include:
- Pull out the navigation draw from the left.
- Search for and Add any System or Team from pvoutput.org.
- Build your own dashboard with your favourite graphs. Click on the dashboard graphs to jump to the system page.
System Pages:
- Intraday, Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly system pages.
- Swipe left/right to move between Intradays, Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly graphs.
- Swipe up/down to move between Generation, Consumption, Import/Export kWH, Import/Export Monetary and Extended Data.
- Use menu on the system page to Add to Dashboard, View/Edit System Details, Edit TOU Tariffs, manually add outputs, refresh all data or delete the system from the app.
- Portrait shows graph and data grid. Click on data heading to hide the graph to view data list in full screen. Click heading line again to restore the graph.
- Rotate to landscape to see full screen graph.
- Drill using a list click or long press.
System Pages Drill Mode:
- Indicated by drill period in round brackets in page heading.
- When in drill mode, swipe left/right to move period. eg: move from month to month, year to year etc.
- Use the back button to exit Drill Mode.
- Access Drill Mode via list click or long press.
Home Screen Widgets:
- Keep informed by nice homescreen widgets.
- A basic 1x1 text widget for free.
- In-app subscription (7 day free trial) for additional Text, Graph and Progress Bar home screen widget options.
- Place a 2x1, resize and then adjust the width/height via the widget configuration screen.
- Click on the system name to re-enter the widget configuration screen.
- Click on the widget to enter the app.
Live Feeds:
- Be mesmerised by the animated dots that represent electricity flowing between the grid (import or export) your solar panel generation and your household comsumption.
- In-app subscription (7 day free trial).
- Great for an in-home display to help your family visualise their real-time power consumption and reduce those bills. Cook some toast and watch those dots fly!
- Currently supports Efergy (Energyhive), VeraLite, SolarEdge and Fronius.
Access to pvoutput.org data is governed by the pvoutput.org API limits and restrictions. If your system has access to the API bonus features, this app can take advantage of higher rate limits and retrieve detail data for other systems.
Don't hesitate to drop me an email (pvoutput@mcdonalds.id.au) with any problems or suggestions.
v3.09 (21/09/2024)
- Update libraries.
- Fix initial background loading of Daily data for older systems. All data should now be fetched over following hours to stay under PVOutput.org api limits.
v3.08 (1/08/2024)
- Increase Target/Min SDK versions and update libraries to keep app alive in Play Store.
- Fix invalid Tariff crash.
v3.08 (1/08/2024)
- Increase Target/Min SDK versions and update libraries to keep app alive in Play Store.
- Fix invalid Tariff crash.
v2.57 (13/01/2021)
- revert AndroidPlot library back to 1.5.7 to avoid crash when opening LiveFeed on older devices.
v2.56 (11/01/2022)
- More LiveFeed crash error catching for diagnostics
v2.55 (12/12/2021)
- Lots of refactoring in response to Lint warnings and other code quality advice
- Add WidgetConfig cache to avoid database contention and ANRs
- Fix WidgetConfig backstack to not end up in main app
- Fix some LiveFeed error handling
- Library updates
v2.54 (12/11/2021)
- Fix initialisation of Widgets on Android 12... Doh! sorry :(
- Fix reload of Widget Config Types spinner
- Add 7th column to data list for Extended Data v12 values
- Update AndroidPlot library
v2.52 (28/10/2021)
- fix declaration of usesCleartextTraffic to allow Live Feeds to work again
v2.51 (23 Oct 2021)
- Support pvoutput.org's new "ISRG Root X1" CA certificates on older devices
- Automatically delete 'sample' systems to reduce API traffic
- Attempt fix some ANRs
- Bump library resources to latest versions
v2.49 (24 May 2021)
- Upgrade to Billing Library v4
- Fix ANR related to Drawer Fragment getDataList
v2.48 (20 May 2021)
- Fix bug causing new subscriptions to be refunded after a few days.
v2.46 (25 Apr 2021)
- Updated app to target API 30 and update to latest libraries.
- Added ability to set a Compare Tariff so you can see impact of changing tariff plans.
- Fixed ACT_EVO_ActewAGL Intraday rate calc to account for Daylight Saving correctly.
- Attempt to fix various NPEs.
v2.44 (29 Apr 2019)
- Fix to Y Axis Max calculation with v2.43 performance fix.
v2.43 (27 Apr 2019)
- Add option for 1x1 Text Widget to show Instant power (enjoy David)
- Minor performance and bug fixes.
v2.37 (02 Mar 2019)
- Fixed click on Datalist header to hide the graph correctly to show full page of data.
- Other minor crash and ANR fixes.
v2.36 (24 Feb 2019)
- Upgraded the Cloud Messaging solution used to deliver PVOutput Alerts to your device from GCM (deprecated and soon to be removed) to Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Other minor crash and ANR fixes.
v2.34/35 (18 Feb 2019)
- Change API calls to HTTPS to overcome Android 9 blocking HTTP traffic. Thanks for your patience.
v2.33 (17 Feb 2019)
- Replaced the old Alarm Manager auto updating with new Work Manager Jobs.
- Renamed existing "Gen v Con" Widget Mode to "Gen v Con (Net)" and added new Graph Widget Mode of 'Gen v Con (Gross)'
- Added NSW Ausgrid TOU scheme.
- Improved Application Log logging.
- Target and Compile for Android 9 to overcome Work Manager build issues.
v2.30 (21 Jan 2017)- Livefeed - Efergy (Energyhive): Change API call to use https rather than http to avoid a 301 redirect response.
v2.21 (23 June 2017)1. Progress Bar Widget - Fix live generation not handling null values and dropping to zero.2. Progress Bar Widget - Fix par generation not handling gaps in the data and maintaining the end of day value.3. Graph Widget - Added shading to the "Gen v Con" and better labelled the colour pickers in the config page.4. Edit System - Added ability to set a custom system name.
v2.20 (08 April 2017)- Monthly estimates from pvoutput.org are now shown on the Daily, Weekly, Monthy and Yearly charts. Turn off in Graph preferences.- New home screen widget types for Pro Widget subscribers : Progress Bar's for either Generation or Consumption that show the current energy as a bar and indicators for the Daily/Monthly target as well as the Par value.
Timmy M29 Pro
