Telescope Power Monitor

Features

• Monitor battery voltage
• Monitor battery load (amperage)

Components

• GUI
• Firmware
• Hardware

Recent changes

List of changes can be found in the changelog.

To-Do List

• Add emergency battery shutoff voltage (power down PC, turn off dehumidifier and telescope) [Firmware, GUI]
• Add JSON API webserver [GUI]
• Add an "imaging" mode that disables dehumidifier and emergency shutoff [Firmware, GUI]
• Add config QC checks [Firmware]

Ideas that may be implemented in the future

• Switch to ethernet board
• Add voltage sensor for solar input

Ideas unlikely to be implemented:

• Blink LED on battery low voltage (configurable) [Firmware, Hardware]
• Blink LED on battery high current draw (configurable) [Firmware, Hardware]

License

Telescope Power Monitor is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later

Copyright © 2016-2021 Steve Cross

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.