Brultech Software Sneak Peak

[beelzerob]

By the way, the download page for the software now lists an update as of Oct 18, and it also shows a Product Key you can put in.

 

[JWHardesty]

New beta released today 10/20/2009 v1.13.
I hope it fixes the lack of data values in the charts.

 

[JWHardesty]

Fixed the problem.
Paul with Burltech emailed me and I missed putting in the serial number in the section marked Serial/Device Binding.
The serial number was displayed in the Devices section and my TCP/IP communication section showed it was receiving packets.
Also my database showed 'enabled' and 'DB Write OK'. All the other boxes in the ECM Engine were receiving data.

Thanks, Paul.

 

[mdiehl]

When I attempted to install the Cassini Web Server, I kept getting an Error Code 2869.
I turned off my UAC in Vista and the error goes away.

When I go to http://localhost:9009 the dashboard loads with my circuit names but I never get any data.
Any ideas?

Is the ECM Engine running and collecting data? You need to start this, get it collecting data, and set it to log to a database (just a checkbox). It took me awhile to get this working. After pulling my hair out for about 15 mins, I power cycled the 1240, and then it started working. I had my 1240 flake out one other time also when I was messing with settings and it required a power cycle that time also before it would start sending valid data again.

I found Brultech has posted an updated version of the ECM Engine. Version 1.11.
It fixed the problem with not being able to save the cost per kilo watt and added a database write status.
Yes, I verified my ECM engine is logging to the database.
I will try the power cycle.

I tried the power cycle but I still don't have any data in the charts.

I've got Engine 1.15 running OK, but it doesn't seem that the Dashboard, nor the Cassini software is seeing any local ports. The firewall has an exception to allow the port thru, but nothing is happening. Tried re-installing pretty much everything, but no joy....

 

[JWHardesty]

When I attempted to install the Cassini Web Server, I kept getting an Error Code 2869.
I turned off my UAC in Vista and the error goes away.

When I go to http://localhost:9009 the dashboard loads with my circuit names but I never get any data.
Any ideas?

Is the ECM Engine running and collecting data? You need to start this, get it collecting data, and set it to log to a database (just a checkbox). It took me awhile to get this working. After pulling my hair out for about 15 mins, I power cycled the 1240, and then it started working. I had my 1240 flake out one other time also when I was messing with settings and it required a power cycle that time also before it would start sending valid data again.

I found Brultech has posted an updated version of the ECM Engine. Version 1.11.
It fixed the problem with not being able to save the cost per kilo watt and added a database write status.
Yes, I verified my ECM engine is logging to the database.
I will try the power cycle.

I tried the power cycle but I still don't have any data in the charts.

I've got Engine 1.15 running OK, but it doesn't seem that the Dashboard, nor the Cassini software is seeing any local ports. The firewall has an exception to allow the port thru, but nothing is happening. Tried re-installing pretty much everything, but no joy....

Look to see if there is a serial number in the section marked Serial/Device Binding.
My serial number kept missing from this section every time I restarted the ECM engine.
I have to add my serial number every time and then select 'Bind'.
Hope this helps.
I am now trying to get every thing working on Windows 7 64-bit.
Anyone do this yet?

 

[mdiehl]

When I attempted to install the Cassini Web Server, I kept getting an Error Code 2869.
I turned off my UAC in Vista and the error goes away.

When I go to http://localhost:9009 the dashboard loads with my circuit names but I never get any data.
Any ideas?

Is the ECM Engine running and collecting data? You need to start this, get it collecting data, and set it to log to a database (just a checkbox). It took me awhile to get this working. After pulling my hair out for about 15 mins, I power cycled the 1240, and then it started working. I had my 1240 flake out one other time also when I was messing with settings and it required a power cycle that time also before it would start sending valid data again.

I found Brultech has posted an updated version of the ECM Engine. Version 1.11.
It fixed the problem with not being able to save the cost per kilo watt and added a database write status.
Yes, I verified my ECM engine is logging to the database.
I will try the power cycle.

I tried the power cycle but I still don't have any data in the charts.

I've got Engine 1.15 running OK, but it doesn't seem that the Dashboard, nor the Cassini software is seeing any local ports. The firewall has an exception to allow the port thru, but nothing is happening. Tried re-installing pretty much everything, but no joy....

Got it running again, but had to wipe the PC clean and start again.

 

[ultrajones]

When I attempted to install the Cassini Web Server, I kept getting an Error Code 2869.
I turned off my UAC in Vista and the error goes away.

When I go to http://localhost:9009 the dashboard loads with my circuit names but I never get any data.
Any ideas?

Is the ECM Engine running and collecting data? You need to start this, get it collecting data, and set it to log to a database (just a checkbox). It took me awhile to get this working. After pulling my hair out for about 15 mins, I power cycled the 1240, and then it started working. I had my 1240 flake out one other time also when I was messing with settings and it required a power cycle that time also before it would start sending valid data again.

I found Brultech has posted an updated version of the ECM Engine. Version 1.11.
It fixed the problem with not being able to save the cost per kilo watt and added a database write status.
Yes, I verified my ECM engine is logging to the database.
I will try the power cycle.

I tried the power cycle but I still don't have any data in the charts.

I've got Engine 1.15 running OK, but it doesn't seem that the Dashboard, nor the Cassini software is seeing any local ports. The firewall has an exception to allow the port thru, but nothing is happening. Tried re-installing pretty much everything, but no joy....

Look to see if there is a serial number in the section marked Serial/Device Binding.
My serial number kept missing from this section every time I restarted the ECM engine.
I have to add my serial number every time and then select 'Bind'.
Hope this helps.
I am now trying to get every thing working on Windows 7 64-bit.
Anyone do this yet?

I just installed the engine and the dashboard on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. The best I can tell, the Engine is not actually writing to the database (even though the database write status says otherwise). I would really like to get this working so I can actually use the ECM 1240 I purchased a few months back ...

I got the dashboard working by installing the 64 bit version of the System.Data.SQLite.dll. So, it appears to be working, but nothing is getting written to the database.

Regards,
Ultrajones

 

[ultrajones]

When I attempted to install the Cassini Web Server, I kept getting an Error Code 2869.
I turned off my UAC in Vista and the error goes away.

When I go to http://localhost:9009 the dashboard loads with my circuit names but I never get any data.
Any ideas?

Is the ECM Engine running and collecting data? You need to start this, get it collecting data, and set it to log to a database (just a checkbox). It took me awhile to get this working. After pulling my hair out for about 15 mins, I power cycled the 1240, and then it started working. I had my 1240 flake out one other time also when I was messing with settings and it required a power cycle that time also before it would start sending valid data again.

I found Brultech has posted an updated version of the ECM Engine. Version 1.11.
It fixed the problem with not being able to save the cost per kilo watt and added a database write status.
Yes, I verified my ECM engine is logging to the database.
I will try the power cycle.

I tried the power cycle but I still don't have any data in the charts.

I've got Engine 1.15 running OK, but it doesn't seem that the Dashboard, nor the Cassini software is seeing any local ports. The firewall has an exception to allow the port thru, but nothing is happening. Tried re-installing pretty much everything, but no joy....

Look to see if there is a serial number in the section marked Serial/Device Binding.
My serial number kept missing from this section every time I restarted the ECM engine.
I have to add my serial number every time and then select 'Bind'.
Hope this helps.
I am now trying to get every thing working on Windows 7 64-bit.
Anyone do this yet?

I just installed the engine and the dashboard on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. The best I can tell, the Engine is not actually writing to the database (even though the database write status says otherwise). I would really like to get this working so I can actually use the ECM 1240 I purchased a few months back ...

I got the dashboard working by installing the 64 bit version of the System.Data.SQLite.dll. So, it appears to be working, but nothing is getting written to the database.

Regards,
Ultrajones

I got it working on Windows 7 64 bit. To install the webserver, I had to turn off UAC. For the database writes, I have to either turn off UAC or run the ECM Engine as an administrator. For the ASPX error, you have to install the 64 bit version of System.Data.SQLite.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Brultech\Brultech Electricity Monitor Dashboard\bin. The final part is making sure you have the serial/device binding set up in the ECM Engine.

 

[personalt]

The demo that they have at
http://216.121.177.3:8080/#

how many units do you think run that thing? it looks like two I guess as you get 7 channels total per unit. Am I missing something or does that sound right

 

[WayneW]

how many units do you think run that thing? it looks like two I guess as you get 7 channels total per unit. Am I missing something or does that sound right

Yup, that sounds right. 2x7=14 and they have 14 loads identified. Unit 1 Ch1 is the main feed. They don't identify exactly which loads Unit 1 Ch2 and Unit 2 Ch 1 & Ch 2 are monitoring, but it could be almost any of them.

 

[personalt]

Has anyone taking a look at the sqlite DB that acts as the backend for this?

The software looks nice but I want to be able to set up some warnings in CQC if certain conditions are met. And I would like to do some other things to massage the data.

 

[tenholde]

Has anyone taking a look at the sqlite DB that acts as the backend for this?

The software looks nice but I want to be able to set up some warnings in CQC if certain conditions are met. And I would like to do some other things to massage the data.

I use sqlite DB for the database storage for the tenEcmServer products. I think that is where Brultech got the idea.

http://www.tenholder.net/tenWare2/tenEcmSe...cmDbLogger.aspx

tenholde

 

[personalt]

I wonder if your product would be a good peice of middleware between the 1240 and CQC. Your softare looks very interesting.

I would imagine that CQC ccould connect to the UDP broadcast that you put out. It appears that data is broadcast every second?

How often are you writing the DB? as a comparision anyone know at what interval the ECM driver is writing to the DB? What happens if the pc and your server is down for 20 minutes. Do you get the missing data from the 1240 and log it to the database?

My issue is that with the 1220 I had CQC attached to the serial connection. With the 1240 I want to do my own analyiss of the data but I need CQC to still get the real time values.

Has anyone taking a look at the sqlite DB that acts as the backend for this?

The software looks nice but I want to be able to set up some warnings in CQC if certain conditions are met. And I would like to do some other things to massage the data.

I use sqlite DB for the database storage for the tenEcmServer products. I think that is where Brultech got the idea.

http://www.tenholder.net/tenWare2/tenEcmSe...cmDbLogger.aspx

tenholde

 

[project_x]

One feature that I would find very valuable, is to allow me to multiply a channel by a number (in particular 2). My HVAC system uses 2- 240V circuits, I have one coil on leg of the 1st circuit and one on the other leg of the 2nd circuit. The come in as channel 2, but as a 120V load, so the kw usage is off by a factor of 2.

 

[signal15]

One feature that I would find very valuable, is to allow me to multiply a channel by a number (in particular 2). My HVAC system uses 2- 240V circuits, I have one coil on leg of the 1st circuit and one on the other leg of the 2nd circuit. The come in as channel 2, but as a 120V load, so the kw usage is off by a factor of 2.

Why don't you just get a second coil thingy and put it on the other line and run them in series with each other into Channel 2? That's what I did with mine. I have 3 circuits for lighting, and I did this with 3 of them and put them all on one channel.