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Hi Folks -

Thanks Trystan very much for developing this great bit of software - emoncms.

I've had a great time integrating it with my offgrid system.

I use it quite differently to the way I guess it was intended - in my case I've written software for an arduino that basically constantly interrogates two victron bluesolar solar charge controllers via their serial ports and a shunt. The charge controllers give me watts produced, the shunt gives me watts stored, and the difference gives me house consumption. Simple, elegant and accurate. Here's one of my dashboards - we live in the Bush in Australia so during our winter the sun goes down behind the trees and we only produce 10% of our 3kW nominal, so we tend to switch over to mains at night - so if it seems pretty uninteresting it's probably our night time - 

Here's a video I shot of the system showing the layout

Since I'm a telco, my intention ultimately is to use emoncms to gather snmp data showing throughput of network devices and add that to the system as well.. that's going to be fun :)

OK - SO... the question. If you see the dashboard above you'll see I've imported a number of jpgs to make it pretty - the icons showing the solar panel, the battery and the house. What I'd really like to do is place the battery state of charge (SOC) reading you see at the bottom left of the dashboard directly over the battery icon. Unfortunately, though, when I drag the 'feedvalue' widget over the jpg, it always gets hidden BEHIND the jpg... does anyone have any tips about how I might make it go 'in front'?

Cheers,

M