PVLiveConsumer

November 10, 2025 · View on GitHub

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Collect GSP solar generation data from PVlive from Sheffield Solar

Run

To the run the appication install this library and run

python pvliveconsumer/app.py

The environmental variables are

  • DB_URL: The natabase url you want to save the results to
  • REGIME: Regime of which to pull, either 'in-day' or 'day-after'
  • N_GSPS: The number of gsps you want to pull
  • INCLUDE_NATIONAL: Option to load national data, or not
  • UK_LONDON_HOUR: Optional to check UK London hour. This means can run this service at the same UTC times, independently of the clock change.
  • BACKFILL_HOURS: Optional, defaults to 2. The amount of hours of data that is backfilled.
  • ELEVATION_LIMIT: Optional, defaults to 5. If no PVLive values are found, and sun elevation is below this, then the values are set to 0
  • PVLIVE_DOMAIN_URL: Optional, defaults to 'https://www.pvlive.org.uk'. The domain of the PVLive API.

These options can also be enter like this:

python pvliveconsumer/app.py --n-gsps=10

Tests

To run tests use the following command

docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker-compose -f test-docker-compose.yml build
docker-compose -f test-docker-compose.yml run pvliveconsumer

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

rachel tipton
rachel tipton
💻		 Peter Dudfield
Peter Dudfield
💻		 Matthew Duffin
Matthew Duffin
💻		 Akshay Waghmare
Akshay Waghmare
💻		 Ramkumar R
Ramkumar R
🚇

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!