SwitchDoc Labs SolarMAX2, Assembly And Testing Manual

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Clean up your wiring by using some wire ties to make it neat!
Testing Your SolarMAX2 System
If you are using a SkyWeather2 system, SkyWeather comes with support for SolarMAX2. If you don’t have a
SkyWeather system, jump down to “Testing your SolarMAX2 with a Raspberry Pi”. If you see the yellow light
on the Mini Pro LP board (Part D) flicker about every 30 seconds then you are transmitting data.
If you don’t have a SkyWeather2 system (SkyWeather2 comes with a Software Defined Radio - SDR - for the
Raspberry Pi), download and install the WeatherSense Software from:
https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Pi_WeatherSense
You will need a compatible Software Defined Radio for your Raspberry Pi to pick up the SolarMAX2 433MHz
signals. You can buy one here:
https://shop.switchdoc.com/products/software-defined-radio-sdr-and-antenna
Testing With SkyWeather
Next, login into your Raspberry Pi and “cd SDL_Pi_SkyWeather2”
Note: You can’t be running SkyWeather2 in the background when you are running this test. You must kill the
process by doing something similar to this (your process number will be different):
pi@switchdoclabs:~/SDL_Pi_SkyWeather2 $ ps xaf | grep python
236 ? Ss 24:52 /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py --no-daemon --
keep-connection
502 ? S 13:29 \_ /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/monitor.py
22940 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto python
22889 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ sudo python SkyWeather2.py
22894 pts/1 Sl+ 0:18 \_ python SkyWeather2.py
pi@switchdoclabs:~/SDL_Pi_SkyWeather2 $
Then you have to kill the process:
sudo kill -9 22894
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