On this, my new blog-based website, I have integrated the documentation for PVS6 Access and API as a regular page. The PDF document (as of January 2026) will remain available, but will no longer be...

Important Update: Information about newer firmware requiring authentication, and a new local monitoring API from SunStrong. See the section immediately after the introduction in the documentation. ...

Since the first publication, I have found that some of the information presented is incorrect. I have updated this document to reflect that, but my recommendation has not changed. I recently (lat...

I have been researching and implementing a way to connect to my SunPower PVS6 monitoring system so I can view panel-level details about my PV system. SunPower does not make this level of detail ava...

A month or so ago, we replaced our old forced-air heating and cooling system with a heat pump-based system. Since we have ducting, floor registers, etc., we chose a heat pump-based system with a ce...

Just wanted to show all of you who use OO PHP a technique that is quite familiar to old-time C++ programmers, but generally not so well known in the PHP world (think auto_ptr). This technique allow...

I recently converted an old(er) Zend Framework based application to the new Zend_Application/Zend_Bootstrap style bootstrap approach. In doing so, I of course started down the path of creating comp...

I have occasionally been plagued by less-than-stellar performance while using ZendStudio 6.x.x series. It happened again the other day, and I finally made some progress in tracking it down, so let ...

The problem So I am using the WSF/PHP web services for a project. All was fine until web service usage increased. After a while, web service calls started timing out (3o seconds exceeded). Regular...

So you are working with WSO2’s WSF/PHP web services for PHP framework and you need to receive web service calls that contain a username token so you can identify the caller, and apply some password...