PowerGuru PowerGuru is looking for a co-maintainer. If you're interested, please take a look at this general information about GNU packages and being a GNU maintainer, and then email maintainers@gnu.org with a bit about your background and particular interest in this package. Thanks. Please note that maintaining this package requires assigning copyright to the FSF, and ensuring that any future contributors also execute papers, since that is what past authors and contributors have done. Introduction | Get the Software | Documentation | Mailing Lists/Newsgroups | Install Help | Request an Enhancement | Report a Bug | Maintainer Introduction Powerguru is a a monitoring, data logging, and remote control application for power generation products used for renewable energy. Currently devices being supported are Xantrex (Trace) and Outback Power Systems products. Features Data-logging PowerGuru can poll all the meters on a Xantrex or Outback product, including multiples devices, and writes the data to an SQL database. Remote Control PowerGuru enables one to remotely control the device as if you were sitting there pushing buttons yourself. Setup and Configuration PowerGuru enables you to have a default set of configuration options as a disk based file, and to set or dump this data into/from the device. This is to make the setup of new installations simpler. Free Software PowerGuru is 100% free software. For more information on the GPL, go to the Free Software Foundation web site. SQL Database Support PowerGuru uses an SQL database to store all the data from logging the devices, so you can do advanced queries and graphs. SNMP Support PowerGuru has SNMP support, so it can be easily integrated into other network administration tools like Mrtg or PHP scripts. Downloading Powerguru Powerguru releases (when the release is done) will be found on in the subdirectory /gnu/powerguru/ on your favorite GNU mirror. Currently PowerGuru is under heavy development and although many features work, it is probably only of interest to other developers. Data logging works pretty reliably now. The latest powerguru development sources are available via anonymous CVS. Use the following commands to check them out (just hit return when you are prompted for the password): export CVS_RSH="ssh" cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/powerguru co powerguru For more detailed information on CVS usage at gnu.org, read CVS Usage at gnu.org. You can also browse the sources. For other ways to obtain Powerguru, please read How to get GNU Software Documentation The initial very rough draft of the manual, covers the Xantrex and Outback serial protocols is here or here as a PDF. This manual is just getting started, but since people wanted the details on the Xantrex and Outback serial protocol documents, I figure here it is... This should be enough for anyone interested in writing their own software. Mailing Lists/Newsgroups Powerguru has three mailing lists hosted at gnu.org. Archives of these lists are stored at http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/: powerguru@gnu.org is for discussion of powerguru development, porting to new platforms, ideas for the future, general powerguru usage or problems. New alpha and stable releases are announced here. To subscribe, go the http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/powerguru Volume is typically low. bug-powerguru@gnu.org is a special list for reporting bugs, and to enable the developers to track submitted bug reports. If you think you have found a bug in powerguru, then you should, in the first instance send as complete a report as possible to this list. ideally, you should include the text you get by running config.guess, the text you see when you run configure, and if you can, a patch made with diff -u5 which fixes the problem. It will also be useful to send the logfile from the test run. To subscribe, go the http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-powerguru Volume is typically low. powerguru-commit@gnu.org is where summaries of changes commited to the CVS repository are automatically posted. If you wish to see these changes as they happen, http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/powerguru-commit Volume is sporadic, but typically low. Announcements about Powerguru and most other GNU Software are made on <info-gnu@gnu.org>. Request an Enhancement If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of Powerguru, please send a request to <powerguru@gnu.org> Please remember that development of Powerguru is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU. Report a Bug If you think you have found a bug in Powerguru, then you should send as complete a report as possible to <bug-powerguru@gnu.org>. Maintainer PowerGuru is currently being maintained by Rob Savoye [ English ] Return to GNU's home page. Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to gnu@gnu.org. there are also other ways to contact the FSF. Please send comments on these web pages to webmasters@gnu.org, send other questions to gnu@gnu.org. Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Updated: $Date: 2013/10/20 18:11:54 $ $Author: brandon $