Does anyone have any suggestions for an energy monitor that I can integrate into indigo in the UK please.

Thanks

Mat

Hi Mat,

Can you get the CurrentCost energy monitor in the UK. I have written an Indigo 5 Plugin for the second generation CurrentCost EnviR Energy Monitor (CC-128) that I have been running for a while now.

I use an Australian version of the product, the plugin currently only supports single phase but it is not problem to upgrade to multi-phase support. Also does not support the remote IAM's yet (not yet available in Australian version).

Cheers,

Ian

Thanks Ian,

Yes, they are available in the uk. Is the third generation different?

What data is your plugin getting? Do you have a link please?

Cheers

Mat

Hi Mat,

Don't know if there is a different between the second and third generation spec wise but the data format is the same. The first generation data set is completely different.

The plugin works with second and third generation, I have a EnviR.

The plugin collects all data from the Energy Monitor:

Device States:
energy monitor data:
current_watts, days_since_birth, last_update, model, sensor_address, sensor_radio_id, sensor_type,
temperature, usage_last_2_hours, usage_last_month, usage_yesterday, version.

derived data (calculated values from set "service unit tariff"):
cost_per_day, cost_per_month, cost_per_year,current_KWHr_per_day, current_KWHr_per_month,
current_KWHr_per_year, delta_current_watts, delta_direction.

port_status, power_monitor_address

Energy Monitor provides updated data set of values every 6 seconds for the above.

Every 2 hours, the Energy Monitor provides a history dump based on the "Day_Since_Birth". The Energy Monitor internally stores from 4 - 7 years of usage data. The plugin collects historical 2 hour, day and month, data sets stored in dictionaries that can be dumped to the event log.

At this stage only channel 1 data sets are collected but it is easy to extend the plugin to collect channel 2 and 3, or sensors 1 - 9.

If you PM me, I can email you a copy of the plugin with support documentation.

Cheers,

Ian

Hi IanS,

Can you please share your plugin for cc128 ?

Thanks,
Fernando.

I'd also be very interested in this monitoring plugin. Not wanting to sound pushy but have you considered posting it to the user contributions page?