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+### Soliscloud Telegraf Plugin
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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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+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)
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+* Python Requests Module
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+You will need API access, but this is not enabled by default.
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+As [detailed here](https://solis-service.solisinverters.com/support/solutions/articles/44002212561-api-access-soliscloud) you'll need to raise a support ticket requesting access (mine was acted on promptly).
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+Once API access has been enabled for your account, instructions will be given on how to generate credentials. This will result in you having
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+Copyright 2023, B Tasker. Released under [BSD 3 Clause](https://www.bentasker.co.uk/pages/licenses/bsd-3-clause.html).