README

Author: PeterGrace

README.md

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+# What?
+
+I have a victron BlueSolar mppt charger for a long term science project I'm running.  I wanted a way to keep tabs 
+on the solar status, but the BLE output from the victron is kind of sketchy and prone to stop working in my install.  
+I decided to buy a VE.Direct to USB cable and then figure out how to get meaningful data from it.  This project is the result of that.
+
+# Components
+
+## vedirect_rs
+
+This crate utilizes the `nom` parser to convert the serial output of a VE.Direct serial connection into a usable data structure.
+
+## vedirect_to_json
+
+This is a test app for vedirect_rs that connects to /dev/ttyUSB0 and parses the output of the VE.Direct serial stream therein.
+
+
+# Thanks
+Special thanks to @gshipilov for helping me with understanding how the `nom` crate works for payload parsing.  Without his help, 
+I would have likely given up.