I finally coded a small Android Application to help to position the solar panel and thus avoid calibration of the solar tracker !
Very simple to use:
- attach the smartphone on the panel using the 3D printed holder (or manually !)
- align the sun symbol to the blue line (azimuth orientation)
- align the blue horizontal bar with the two horizontal white ones
and that's it !
The app needs to know your position to compute solar angle at your location. So GPS permission is required...
- Source code is available on my github page
- Compiled Application (.apk file) is available here
- And the 3D printed phone holder is here
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