anker-solix-api docker image

Provides a docker container to run a python 3.12 script with dependencies for https://github.com/thomluther/anker-solix-api This docker provides an http service under port http://ip:5000/metrics

docker container setup

pull the container as needed, there are two plattforms (amd64/arm64) available.

docker pull ghcr.io/kantmn/anker-solix-api:latest

if you want to use fixed version use

docker pull ghcr.io/kantmn/anker-solix-api:yyyy.mm

Map path from container

/logs

This will locate the log metrics only

Add and fille the following Docker Env variables as needed

ANKERUSER=YOUR_ANKER_LOGIN_EMAIL

ANKERPASSWORD=YOU_ANKER_PASSWORD

ANKERCOUNTRY=YOUR_REGION (e.g. DE=Germany)

ANKER_SOLIX_DUID=YOUR_ANKER_GUID (this removes the APCGQ80E12344567_ from the requests)

WEATHER_API_URL=YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_URL
(contains coords and api key, key is free of charge and can be obtainted https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up> example for api URL <https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=11.23456&lon=22.123456&appid=API_KEY_FROM_OPENWEATHER>)

The Script is running in a loop, with sleep time, so only ending when container is stopped, should recover from crash

prometheus connection

The metrics is compatible for a prometheus crawling job (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus)

for example open /etc/prometheus.yml and add

- job_name: "anker-solix-api"
    scrape_interval: 5s
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["ip:5000"]

grafana dashboard

afterwards those metrics can be used e.g. in grafana to display graphs etc see an examples here