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Smartmeter2mqtt

Development

This library is hosted on Github, contributions are more then welcome.

  1. Fork library
  2. Install Pull
  3. Compile the library
  4. Run the tests
  5. Debugging
    1. .env file for debugging
  6. Live-reload documentation
  7. Repository content

Fork library

You should start by creating a fork. Or if you already had a fork sync the fork:

# Add the remote, call it "upstream": (only once)
git remote add upstream https://github.com/svrooij/smartmeter2mqtt.git

# Fetch all the branches of that remote into remote-tracking branches,
# such as upstream/master:
git fetch upstream

# Make sure that you're on your beta branch:
git checkout beta

# Rewrite your beta branch so that any commits of yours that
# aren't already in upstream/beta are replayed on top of that
# other branch:
git rebase upstream/beta

Install Pull

We like to use the Github pull application, to keep our beta branch and the forks up-to-date. You have to install this application yourself, but it will work automatically.

Compile the library

Before you can use this library is has to be compiled.

npm run install && npm run compile

Run the tests

After changing somehting you should run the tests (as they are automatically run before your PR is accepted).

npm run test

Debugging

This library has several VSCode tasks defined, be sure to create a .env file in the root of the project. It is loaded by .vscode/launch.json during debugging. If you open an example file and press F5 the example is run and you can set breakpoints in the sample code and in the TypeScript code.

.env file for debugging

The .env file should look like this (with your configuration off-course):

# Pick either the port or the socket (and set the encryption key if needed)
# SMARTMETER_PORT=/dev/ttyUSB0
# SMARTMETER_SOCKET=192.168.1.10:3020
# SMARTMETER_enc-key=AAAA57A9FC71698E193D7CF6103CAAAA

# Enable one or more outputs
# SMARTMETER_DEBUG=true
SMARTMETER_web-server=3000
SMARTMETER_tcp-server=3010
SMARTMETER_raw-tcp-server=3020
# SMARTMETER_mqtt-url=mqtt://localhost:1883
# SMARTMETER_influx-url=https://westeurope-1.azure.cloud2.influxdata.com
# SMARTMETER_influx-token=
# SMARTMETER_influx-org=
# SMARTMETER_influx-bucket=energy

# Enable reading solar from modbus tcp
# SMARTMETER_sunspec-modbus=192.168.1.30

Live-reload documentation

This documentation is build from markdown files. It uses Jekyll to generate html files from markdown. For those who don’t have ruby on their computer (like me), I’ve included a docker-compose that is setup to enable live-reloading the documentation.

# Go to docs root folder
cd docs

# Start docker container (first time takes longer because of package downloading).
docker-compose up

Your documentation should be up at localhost:4000 and your browser will refresh on save.

Repository content

  • docs/ These documentations
  • src/output/ Several different outputs
  • src/ Main app files
  • tests/.. - All the tests, using the Jest framework.