mhzawadi/foxess-mqtt repository overview

⁠Horwoods Foxess Cloud Data collector

This is a very simple tool to get the data out of FoxEss-cloud and into MQTT, it has some very rough edges.

⁠Running

docker run --name foxescloud \
  -e TIMEZONE=Europe/London \
  -v /home/user/foxess_data:/foxess-mqtt/data \
  mhzawadi/foxess-mqtt

⁠Docker environment variables

• TIMEZONE - This is the time your in, else use UTC List of Supported Timezones⁠

⁠Config file

The new PHP script uses json for the config, you can copy the below code and paste into config.josn or run the image and wait for it spit out the files.

You now dont need to provide your device ID as we now collect all devices in your account

The json for the config.json file

{
  "foxess_username": "username",
  "foxess_password": "secretPassword",
  "mqtt_host": "mosquitto",
  "mqtt_port": "1883",
  "mqtt_user": "foxess",
  "mqtt_pass": "foxess",
  "log_level": 2
}

• log_level: is how much you want in the console, 1 is minimal, 2 is basic, 3 is everything