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Solar Status Page

By Jake Withecombe
Monitoring your tower as well as your site
Solar Status Page

The Giraffe CCTV platform allows you to control all of the accessories on your tower but also monitor the batteries, solar output and mains power charging stats.

You can see the solar status page by clicking on Settings > Device Settings > Tower Settings

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On the left-hand side of the screen, you can see the live data from the tower. This data is pulled live every second from your Victron charger and Battery Management System so this data will update in real-time. If the sun goes behind a cloud then you will see the output from the solar charger fall.

On the right-hand side, you can see all of the accessory controls including camera power. This means if your battery is getting low you will be able to switch the cameras off and save power. Alternatively, if you have an issue with one of your cameras then you can also use this feature to power cycle the cameras.

Below the accessory controls, you have the stats from the Teltonika router. This gives you the current active sim and the signal level of the router.

Further down the page, you have the historical data of the solar and battery monitoring. This will allow you to track the historical data from your tower and find any trends which might allow you to find a problem before it becomes an issue.

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Here you can see the battery voltage from the tower and see that the tower was reducing each day. Eventually, the battery died but it was clear what the issue with the tower was and something could be done about it.

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