SOLECTRUS is a smart photovoltaic dashboard that shows your energy production and usage. It also calculates costs and savings, helping you get the most out of your solar system.
Read here about the motivation (in German): https://ledermann.dev/blog/2021/02/03/photovoltaik-dashboard-als-web-applikation/
A live demo with realtime data is available at https://demo.solectrus.de
For self-hosting SOLECTRUS, please look at https://github.com/solectrus/hosting
- Clone the repo locally:
git clone git@github.com:solectrus/solectrus.git
cd solectrus- Install PostgreSQL, Redis, and puma-dev (if not already present). On a Mac with HomeBrew, run this to install from the
Brewfile:
brew bundleEnsure that PostgreSQL is running:
brew services start postgresql@16- Install and set up puma-dev to use HTTPS for development. Do this on macOS:
sudo puma-dev -setup
puma-dev -install
puma-dev link
# Use Vite via puma-dev proxy
# Adopted from https://github.com/puma/puma-dev#webpack-dev-server
echo 3036 > ~/.puma-dev/vite.solectrus- Setup the application to install gems and NPM packages and create the database:
bin/setup- Start the application locally:
bin/devThis starts the app and opens https://solectrus.test in your default browser (see Procfile.dev).
After preparing development environment (see above):
bin/influxdb-restart.sh
DISABLE_SPRING=1 bin/rspec
DISABLE_SPRING=1 RAILS_ENV=test bin/rake cypress:run
open coverage/index.htmlRuboCop:
bin/rubocop
ESLint:
bin/yarn lint
TypeScript:
bin/yarn tsc
There is a shortcut to run all test and linting tools:
bin/testThe Live Demo is hosted at Hetzner Cloud. For performance monitoring, it uses RorVsWild, which is free for OpenSource projects. You can see internal metrics like CPU, memory, and disk usage, as well as request times and errors here: https://www.rorvswild.com/applications/136101/requests
Copyright (c) 2020-2025 Georg Ledermann, released under the AGPL-3.0 License