Standalone.md

Stand-alone setup

You can run the add-on outside of Home Assistant (e.g. on a remote RPI sending MQTT data of WiFI).

git clone https://github.com/fl4p/batmon-ha
cd batmon-ha
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create options.json within the batmon-ha directory. Use this as an example and adjust as needed:

{
  "devices": [
    {
      "address": "",
      "type": "daly",
      "alias": "daly1"
    },
    {
      "address": "",
      "type": "jk",
      "alias": "jk1"
    },
    {
      "address": "",
      "type": "jbd",
      "alias": "jbd1"
    },
    {
      "address": "",
      "type": "victron",
      "alias": "victron1",
      "pin": "000000"
    }
  ],
  "mqtt_broker": "homeassistant.local",
  "mqtt_user": "pv",
  "mqtt_password": "Offgrid",
  "concurrent_sampling": false,
  "keep_alive": true,
  "sample_period": 1.0,
  "publish_period": 1.0,
  "invert_current": false,
  "expire_values_after": 20,
  "verbose_log": false,
  "watchdog": false
}

Then start:

python3 main.py

If your OS uses systemd, you can use this service file to start batmon on boot (and restart when it crashes):

[Unit]
Description=Batmon

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
User=pi
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/batmon-ha
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env python3 main.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Place this file to /etc/systemd/system/batmon.service and enable to start on boot:

systemctl enable batmon.service
systemctl start batmon.service 

Docker

Small modifications are needed to run this inside Docker, see fl4p#25 (comment)