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This is an exec based plugin for Telegraf designed to collect Electricity usage and generation statistics from [Soliscloud](https://www.soliscloud.com/). Inverters, Dataloggers, EPMs and Meters made by [Ginlong Technologies](https://www.ginlong.com/) tend to report into Soliscloud.
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-This plugin calls the Soliscloud API in order to retrieve information so that [Telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) can write it into InfluxDB.
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+This plugin calls the Soliscloud API in order to retrieve information so that [Telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) can write it into InfluxDB for easy visualisation.
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More information on the original development can be found in [utilities/telegraf-plugins#9](https://projects.bentasker.co.uk/gils_projects/issue/utilities/telegraf-plugins/9.html)