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Engineering insights, product updates, and solar tracking knowledge from the TrackLab team.
Automated Stow-for-Safety: How TrackLab Protects Solar Farms with Rule-Based Weather Response
A wind event at 2 AM does not wait for someone to check a dashboard. TrackLab automates stow-for-safety with rule-based triggers, independent row architecture, and auto-clear that resumes tracking when conditions normalize.
Pushing Data Processing to the Database: How We Optimized TrackLab’s Device Message Pipeline
We were asking PHP to be a database. JSONB extraction, parent resolution, set operations — all reimplemented in application code. This is the story of moving that processing to where it belongs.
We Taught TrackLab to Speak MCP, and OAuth Immediately Tried to Fight Us
We added a production MCP server to TrackLab so AI assistants can query solar tracking data directly. Thirteen tools across navigation, data, and weather — here is what worked, what OAuth broke, and the patterns we kept.
Stop Clicking, Start Flying: The TrackLab Command Palette
Managing a solar farm should not feel like navigating a labyrinth. Press Cmd+K and type what you need — sixty-plus shortcuts that turn daily monitoring into muscle memory.
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