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title: "Local Data Collection"
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```{r setup}
library(microinverterdata)
```

# Data Collection

For inverters that do not collect historical data, you may want to do this collection with R. 

Here are some ideas to achieve it. 


## Use `pins` storage

- Initialize the board dataset maned "inverter_data" (only once)
We can choose the most simpler board to be the local board
```{r}
library(pins)
board <- board_local()
if (!"inverter_data" %in% pin_list(board)) {
  initial_data <- tibble::tibble(
    date = Sys.time(), get_output_data(c("192.168.0.175"))
    )
  board |> pin_write(initial_data, name = "inverter_data", versioned = TRUE)
}

```


- Read the {pins} local board content for dataset "inverter_data"
```{r}
history <- board |> pin_read("inverter_data")
```

- Read new data from the inverter and append it to the dataset : 

```{r}
new_data <- tibble::tibble(
  date = Sys.time(), get_output_data(c("192.168.0.175"))
  )
board |> pin_write(rbind(history, new_data), name = "inverter_data", versioned = TRUE)

```

- look at recorded versions
```{r}
board |> pin_versions("inverter_data")
```

## All-in-one in a script

Now that we know the dynamic behavior, we can move that to a R script and run it on a regular basis with system tools 
 
and you can use and edit the following file as a baseline
```{r}
system.file("inverter_data.R", package = "microinverterdata")
```

and setup (or remove) the environment variables required for the script to run, 
and finally save the modified script in an accessible folder.

### MacOS / Linux platform

The system tool `crontab` is the tool of choice for job scheduling on linux : 

```{bash}
crontab -l
```
Last step here is to configure the crontab 
to run it every 30 min like in the following `crontab` entry

```
# m h dom mon dow command
0,30 * * * * R CMD BATCH /path/of/modified/inverter_data.R
```
### MS Windows platform

Depending of your version, last step here is to configure the task scheduler or the powershell 
`PSScheduledJob` to run it.


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