I was obsessed with optimization and efficiency because I was poor back then. Couldn’t afford a decent computer with a lot of storage space and speed. Thus, efficiency was everything to me.
Although there are attempts to supress it, WGAfakap was famous and it was distributed through message boards and was being used across the world.
With careful searching, archived message board threads explaining how to use WGAfakap can still be found. The most recent of these discussions date to 2010, four years after its initial development
Most WGAfakap users probably almost reached 40 years old now. Give a shout out if you’ve heard or ever used WGAfakap!
Renogy BT-1 telemetry provides useful information for monitoring the condition and performance of a solar photovoltaic system. It can report key values such as PV voltage, current, power generation, battery status, controller temperature, charging activity, and load consumption. These data are important for building dashboards, alerts, databases, and automation systems.
However, developing and testing such a monitoring system normally requires access to real Renogy hardware, including a compatible charge controller and BT-1 Bluetooth module. This can make early development difficult, especially when developers need to reproduce specific conditions such as low battery voltage, peak sunlight, nighttime discharge, or controller inactivity.
My latest open-source project, Renogy BT-1 Telemetry Simulator, removes this hardware requirement.
Application Screenshot
The Renogy BT-1 Telemetry Simulator addresses this problem by generating realistic sample telemetry and sending it as JSON to an HTTP or HTTPS endpoint without requiring physical solar equipment.
The simulator imitates telemetry commonly produced by a Renogy BT-1 module connected to a Renogy Rover MPPT charge controller.
You can manually configure values such as:
Solar PV voltage, current, power, and generated energy
Battery percentage, voltage, current, temperature, and battery type
Controller temperature and charging status
Load voltage, current, power, and energy consumption
Controller model, device ID, and BT-1 identifier
The application can also calculate PV and load power automatically.
Renogy BT-1 Telemetry Simulator Use Cases
The simulator is useful for testing the Solar PV under various situations:
Peak Sunshine
Nighttime operations
Low battery conditions
Heavy loads / light loads
Application Features
One-off HTTP Post transmission
Periodic transmission at a configurable interval
A default two-minute sending interval
Live JSON payload preview
Transmission logs with HTTP status, response, errors, and request duration
This is useful for testing local development servers, webhooks, staging systems, database storage, monitoring dashboards, and automated alerts before installing physical solar hardware.
Requirements
The application uses WPF and .NET 8, so it runs on Windows 10 or Windows 11. Developers can build it using Visual Studio 2022 or the standard dotnet command-line tools.
The current HTTP client accepts self-signed HTTPS certificates for local testing. This behaviour should not be treated as secure certificate validation for production systems.
Download the Source Code
Renogy BT-1 Telemetry Simulator is available on GitHub:
The project is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, allowing users to study, modify, and redistribute the source code according to the GPL terms.
This project is an independent simulator and is not an official Renogy product.
Unity 6.x (included by default in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal) features performance improvements and new features on the Unity 3D user-interface as several bug fixes which enhances user experience while using Ubuntu desktop. Besides that, the backport also improve the performance of low-end 3d cards when rendering unity animations.
Use these command to install Unity 6.x backports into Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
[bash]
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:benkai/precise-unity-backport
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude remove unity-lens-applications
sudo aptitude install unity
wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/benkai/precise-unity-backport/ubuntu/pool/main/u/unity-lens-applications/unity-lens-applications_6.4.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb or
wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/benkai/precise-unity-backport/ubuntu/pool/main/u/unity-lens-applications/unity-lens-applications_6.4.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i unity-lens-applications_6.4.0-0ubuntu2_*.deb
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Hi there, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is out! However the Dash search functionality includes shopping results retrieved from the internet (namely Amazon), which I personally found annoying.
