All,

If you are interested in a FreeWare software for monitoring Xantrex XW systems, we have officially released the first version called - PDLite.

The url for downloading this software can be found at:
http://www.briery.com/downloads.html

It is derived from the PowerDashboard software and has similar (but limited) capabilities. Some of the exclusions include:
- Reminders
- Warnings
- Remote Access
- Meters Page
- No support for Turbine
- No support for Dataq
- No support for Weather Station
- limited logging

Even with the limited logging the application can display
- instantaneous watts
- average watts
- today's watts
- month to date watts total

No registration is required and this software may freely be re-distributed. It is intended to act as a bridge for those that are not currently utilizing monitoring software.

It provides an econimical way to allow you to visualize how your system is working.

Dan Lenox

I bought an apox can to usb and dongle from you .....works great....also downloaded the pd light software

I have a question I want to take that program and put it on my webpage....I host my own website on a server I built at my home http://www.southcentralkentuckysolar.com ....I'm still working on it so this isnt the final layout(it's only been up 4 days as of this post)I'm also still learning html format(I got this far by myself in 3 months using a template and modifying it)

I want to be able to show people what my output is when they pull the web page up .....do you know of any way I can do this

I would also like to put your weblink on the page this would be on

tia

forgot to mention I'm using ubuntu server 8.4

Chris,

I made an update today and posted a new version (2.0.5.9) of the PDLite software.

A change was made to optionally create a textual log file in the logs directory, this file contains ascii data values which are updated every second, and you can simply parse through this file to obtain the values that you are looking for.

Because of the additional overhead this feature by default is not enabled, and if desired you have to edit the installed PowerDashboard.ini file.

First update your software by going to our downloads page.

In order enable this feature and to create this totals text file you have to edit the PowerDashboard.ini file in the installed directory, as installed it is as follows:

[Logging]
;; undocumented
TotalsTextFile=False

If you change the line from "TotalsTextFile=False" to "TotalsTextFile=True", save the file and restart the PDLite software this textual totals data file will be created for you.

Because this file is updated every second, the best way to access this data is first to copy the logs/PowerDashboard.out file to a temporary file, and then parse through the temp file to obtain the data you are looking for.

Dan Lenox