Image: reddit.com · Built a real-time solar + grid energy monitor using Claude Code — tapped my Enphase Envoy and Rainforest EAGLE-200, built a caching API, and it lives in my Mac
Enphase solar and grid readings in a Mac menu bar
Claude Code helped tap an Enphase Envoy and Rainforest EAGLE-200 into a cached API, web dashboard and SwiftBar plugin.
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The poster has a 22-panel Enphase system and a Rainforest EAGLE-200 meter bridge, both with slow local APIs. A cron job polls them every 5 minutes into SQLite on a home server, and a web app and small JSON endpoint read from that.
A SwiftBar plugin shows solar and grid draw in the Mac menu bar. The trickiest part was the Enphase two-step token login. The post says Claude Code helped them work through the Enphase authentication and the build.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Built a real-time solar + grid energy monitor using Claude Code — tapped my Enphase Envoy and RainfoReddit poster: joelc4Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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