What?

I have a victron BlueSolar mppt charger for a long term science project I'm running. I wanted a way to keep tabs on the solar status, but the BLE output from the victron is kind of sketchy and prone to stop working in my install.
I decided to buy a VE.Direct to USB cable and then figure out how to get meaningful data from it. This project is the result of that.

Components

vedirect_rs

This crate utilizes the nom parser to convert the serial output of a VE.Direct serial connection into a usable data structure.

vedirect_to_json

This is a test app for vedirect_rs that connects to /dev/ttyUSB0 and parses the output of the VE.Direct serial stream therein.

Thanks

Special thanks to @gshipilov for helping me with understanding how the nom crate works for payload parsing. Without his help, I would have likely given up.