VOLTTRON™ Office Hours
VOLTTRON office hours occur every other week (Fridays at 11 a.m. PT), and are attended by the development team and members of the community. Meetings may have selected topics, but they are intended to provide an open forum for questions ranging from "How do I get started?" to detailed discussions of a specific VOLTTRON feature.
To join our office hours, email volttron@pnnl.gov.
We discussed how to create a web agent allowing external tools to interact with the platform as well as how an external tool can interact with the VOLTTRON REST API. Remaining time was for questions...
Production Date: Friday, January 28, 2022 
We had a discussion on a potential new way to create agents using Copier (https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) which would replace the custom template in vcfg. Remaining time was for questions...
Production Date: Friday, January 14, 2022 
This special office hours session discusses the modulization effort to simplify deployment. Based on the positive feedback we have received thus far, we are planning to proceed with this effort. At...
Production Date: Friday, January 7, 2022 
Neeraj Nerlekar of re(source) energy presented an exploration of Opentaps (https://github.com/opentaps/volttron-...) for micro-generators to enable faster adoption of renewable energy. Ben Bartling...
Production Date: Friday, December 17, 2021 
We provided an update on the modularization and deployment work with a timeline for an early release for community comment. We also discussed a VOLTTRON 8.2 release tentatively scheduled for February...
Production Date: Friday, December 3, 2021 
In this office hour, David Raker will give a demonstration of U Toledo’s Grafana interface to the VOLTTRON platform through the Web API and discuss next steps.
Production Date: Friday, October 8, 2021 
This office hours discusses the 8.1.1 release which is the culmination of work updating 8.0 and 8.1 based on feedback from the community : https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/releases/tag/8.1.1 ....
Production Date: Friday, September 24, 2021 
This office hours is a discussion of the dynamic RPC capability. We also review the driver discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/discussions/2767 The feedback in this discussion...
Production Date: Friday, September 10, 2021 
This office hour was dedicated to a presentation from Jaime Kolln about SEPA ESI to lead into a discussion of 2030.5, OpenADR, and other options.
Production Date: Friday, August 13, 2021 
This office hours has a discussion of the changes and features of the upcoming 8.1 release. There is also an update on the upcoming Eclipse VOLTTRON User Meeting Jul21 – 22.
Production Date: Friday, July 16, 2021