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# pvCaster pvCaster forecasts the output of your solar power plant This app takes direct and diffuse radiation data from Open-Meteo.com, calculates the position of the sun and projects the radiation on your solar panel. It shows the estimated energy production for the next hours and up to 16 days.

## Parameters #### Latitude [°] Latitude specifies the north–south position of your solar power plant. It ranges from –90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pole. #### Longitude [°] Longitude specifies the east–west position of your solar power plant. The prime meridian defines 0° longitude. Positive longitudes are east of the prime meridian, negative ones are west. #### Azimuth [°] Azimuth is the horizontal direction of your solar power plant. 0° equals North, 90° equals East, 180° equals South, 270° equals West. #### Tilt [°] Tilt is the vertical direction of your solar power plant. 0° means it points up towards the the sky, 90° means it has a vertical orientation and points towards the horizon. #### Cells max power [W] Maximum power your solar cells can deliver. #### Cells efficiency [%] Portion of energy in the form of sunlight that can be converted into electricity by the solar cell. #### Cell area [m\u00b2] Size of the active area your solar panel. #### Diffuse radiation efficiency [%] Efficiency of your solar power plant for diffuse radiation. When pointing up it should be around 100%, when pointing to the horizon it may be around 50%. Also depends on reflections etc. #### Inverter power [W] Maximum power of your inverter. If it is lower than the maximum power of your panels the output power of your system will be limited by this parameter. #### Inverter efficiency [%] Efficiency of your inverter. ## License This app is licensed under the GPLv3. The app uses: - Parts from Privacy Friendly Weather (https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-weather) which is licensed under the GPLv3 - The weather data service is provided by [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com/), under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - Icons from [Google Material Design Icons](https://material.io/resources/icons/) licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - Material Components for Android (https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android) which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - Leaflet which is licensed under the very permissive 2-clause BSD License - WilliamChart (com.db.chart) (https://github.com/diogobernardino/williamchart) which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - Android Volley (com.android.volley) (https://github.com/google/volley) which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - AndroidX libraries (https://github.com/androidx/androidx) which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - AutoSuggestTextViewAPICall (https://github.com/Truiton/AutoSuggestTextViewAPICall) which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 - Map data from OpenStreetMap, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) - Solar positioning library (https://github.com/klausbrunner/solarpositioning) which is licensed under MIT License ## Contributing If you find a bug, please open an issue in the Github repository, assuming one does not already exist. - Clearly describe the issue including steps to reproduce when it is a bug. In some cases screenshots can be supportive. - Make sure you mention the Android version and the device you have used when you encountered the issue. - Make your description as precise as possible. If you know the solution to a bug please report it in the corresponding issue and if possible modify the code and create a pull request. ## Try my other apps | **RadarWeather** | **Gas Prices** | **Smart Eggtimer** | |:---:|:---:|:---:| | [