Category: Mango Automation

  • Monitoring and reporting 3G radio signal-strength (RSSI, dBm) on Mikrotik Routerboards

    Monitoring a large number of Mikrotik Routerboards is easy using software and tools like LibreNMS and Oxidized, but it is unfortunately not possible to retrieve values for 3G/4G/etc signal-strength RSSI (in dBm) via SNMP when using interfaces like the Sierra MC8705 Mini-PCIe card. However, using some RouterOS scripts, we can read and push the value for…

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  • 3G Weather Station using MangoES and RouterBoard

    I thought I would share a recent little side-project that I did at work, putting together a neat and tidy solution to take wind measurements over a three month period for a customer who is interested in installing small wind turbines at some of their rural radio repeater sites. With a tame sparky on hand…

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  • Reading SNMP values from Mikrotik RouterOS into Mango Automation

    If you use Mikrotik routerboard devices in your networking environment or for remote telemetry applications, you may be interested in retrieving some datapoints from the Routerboard using Mango’s SNMP datasource module. In this example, I am going to monitor the up/down state of an interface, as well as the DC supply voltage to the routerboard…

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  • Monitor a SMA Power Reducer Box with Mango Automation

    The SMA Power Reducer Box is a device for control of PV plants via some external control (usually ripple receiver from the grid operator). It has 4 digital inputs to select from up to 16 states of active and reactive power limitation. For whatever reason, reading the current active power limitation setpoint value via Modbus is not possible. Nor…

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