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ESP32 | Omniksol Solar PV to MQTT Gateway

Last year I have replaced the Soladin 600 inverter for one made by Omniksol. The Omniksol has the option to monitor it using a WiFi module and an online portal made by Omniksol. But if you manage to get a 602 series WiFi module there is the option to read the stats directly from the module on TCP port 8899. In real-time, that is without using the Omniksol online portal.

This works by sending it a magic message like {0x68, 0x02, 0x40, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x16} but this has to be personalised to the inverters serial number.

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DCC | Packet Analyzer

DCC is a digital signal and therefore black magic and wizardry to a lot of old-school model railroaders out there.

But when you take a closer look it’s not that hard to understand. It’s all bits and bytes in a certain order that actually make perfect sense.

So let’s take a class at the Hogwarts School of DCC Wizardry. I have made a video about DCC Packets. In this video, I’ll analyse the DCC packet stream using cheap USB logic analyser. And using the NMRA DCC standard will show that it truly is quite simple and life doesn’t have to be analog.

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