# Raspberry Pi 4 Solar Power Monitoring Project

**URL:** <https://community.sixfab.com/t/raspberry-pi-4-solar-power-monitoring-project/1195>\
**Category:** Sixfab Power HAT & Software\
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://community.sixfab.com/t/raspberry-pi-4-solar-power-monitoring-project/1195 "2021-02-17T06:55:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![sherman.chen](https://community.sixfab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@sherman.chen](https://community.sixfab.com/u/sherman.chen)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://community.sixfab.com/t/raspberry-pi-4-solar-power-monitoring-project/1195/1 "2021-02-17T06:55:25Z")

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Hey guys, I’m quite interested in the Power Management & UPS Hat. But before I actually make the purchase, I’m trying to do some research first.

As the subject title clearly suggests, I’m trying to build a Raspberry Pi-based solar powering monitoring project.

From reading the documentation on your website regarding the hardware, it does allow up to 21V input from solar panels (I have a soon-to-arrive 18V, 100W solar panel). My question is, is there a way for me to monitor the voltage & current output of the solar panel in real-time through the HAT? Is there an API for that?

My goal is to be able to store that data into a local db like InfluxDB, which I can then later use for some visualisation project.

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**Author:** ![cecil](https://community.sixfab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@cecil](https://community.sixfab.com/u/cecil)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://community.sixfab.com/t/raspberry-pi-4-solar-power-monitoring-project/1195/2 "2021-03-02T04:33:08Z")

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All of that is possible. I’m doing it in my project.

> <https://github.com/sixfab/sixfab-power-python-api/blob/master/example/read_sensors.py>