A small website designed to save cumulative solar panel data on power generation and display in a nice manner.
My family house just had solar panels installed, and we wanted to help the community in our complex also adopt a more environmental approach to power generation; my father and I figured it'd be easier if we created a tracker to show our power consumption and savings thanks to the solar panels it'd help convince our fellow neighbors to do the same.
I named the tool "Sun Gold Miner" cause it datamines solar panel data. Cheesy, I know.
Our solar panel setup has a three-phased power analyzer (a Carlo Gavazzi WM15) that keeps track of voltages consumed and produced by our house's electric setup. The analyzer uses a weird TCP/IP protocol called Modbus, which effectivelly allows for a weird reading of registers on the control interface. Thankfully, there's a Modbus crate for Rust, and I figured it's a good way to practice my usage of Rust.
Effectively, we're building a web-based backend in front of the power analyzer in order to better query for the information we want to display, whilst simultaenously making a good-looking and simple interface for it.
The backend is written in Rust, using the Rocket web framework and the modbus crate. The frontend is written using Next.js and Tailwind CSS.