Solar Flow is a simple animated visualization of solar panel production flow, designed to be displayed as a plugin on a Grafana dashboard.
- Add the Solar Flow plugin to your Grafana dashboard
- Create a data source of your solar panel production data
- Provide the query for the PV and Grid data in the plugin settings
- Adjust the panel settings to your needs and observe your solar Production/Consumption/Waste ratio on your dashboard
The plugin is expecting to receive the PV and Grid data in one query. If your data is stored in two separate tables, you can use Grafana's Data-Merge feature to combine them into one query. (Refer to Grafana's documentation for more information)
Our plugin has some options that can be adjusted to your needs:
These two are the most important settings in the plugin. They define the fields from your data source that contain the solar panel production and grid energy data. The plugin will use these values to calculate the load energy and visualize the flow of energy. After you provided an appropriate data source and query, you need to choose the Solar and Grid values from the dropdown list.
This setting allows you to add an additional energy source to the visualization. This can be useful if you have a battery or another energy source that you want to visualize. If you don't have an additional source, you can leave this field empty.
This settings allows you to scale the visualization to your needs.
Allows you to adjust the offset of the plugin.
Simply toggle to true if you want the load and grid energy points to be labeled for clearer understanding
You can define such colors as:
Solar Color- the color of the solargu panel production flowGrid Color- the color of the grid energy flowLoad Color- the color of the load energy flowAdditional Source Color- the color of the addition energy sourceLines Color- the color of the lines connecting the points
