Found a cool new site www.pachube.com (I don't have an invite yet...) which looks like a great generic web based interface to allow the monitoring of any sensor (ie. our ECM-1240s) and then provides a generic interface to provide the data to other applications. There are already some pre-built apps available, but would provide a great central hub for distributing the power usage data from the ECM to various web apps which might pop up (ie. WattzOn, Microsoft Xohm, Twitter, custom websites)...
Would be neat if an addon for tenECMServer could push the data to this site...
It could also be used for 1-wire sensors or Proliphix T-Stats, pretty much anything from the sounds of it...
Anyone have an invite?
Geoff
It should be easy for someone to write a program that receives the CSV broadcast record from tenEcmServer and sends it to that site. tenEcmServer was architected to broadcast CSV records to facilitate this kind of development.
tenholde
Anything new going on with the tenEcm stuff?
Here is my first shot at a simple java app that I wrote to get the data from tenEcmServer and publish it out to pachube... Simply edit the properties file (you will need an API code - you should be able to e-mail pachube to get one) with your API key and environment ID and run "java -jar tenECMtoPachube.jar"
Right now the descriptions for the channels are hardcoded to mine, but it should work and the source code is inside the jar file if you want to change the descriptions...
My Feed is located at: http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2369
My main problem is that the historical data is only stored at 15 minute intervals so the usefulness of the historical data is limited, although they have said that the resolution will get better when they get out of beta.
Geoff
If you look at the value column, that is live, the small historical graphs are what only update at 15 minute intervals...I checked out your feed and didn't notice any of the graphs moving. How "live" is it updated? Every second, as the data comes from the brultech?
Yes, like this:Ya, the xml feed asked for a userid and password.
Can labels be put on the axises? Or does the x label have time units showable?
Let me know if there are enhancements to tenEcmServer that will help in your effort. Looks like it has great promise.Yes, like this:Ya, the xml feed asked for a userid and password.
Can labels be put on the axises? Or does the x label have time units showable?
http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2369/datastre...20Usage&s=6
Also you can get the historical data in CSV using a url like this:
http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2369/datastreams/0/archive.csv
It definitely has possibilities, I was playing around with it and was able to get the power usage into google spreadsheets (although it does not update web data sources very frequently).
I would love to have this update in realtime with a much higher sample rate than 15 mins:
http://apps.pachube.com/google_viz/preview...00&g=FF0066
Possibly after I get back from vacation I might modify my program to keep a running max, min & average over 15 minutes and provide that in the data stream to pachube as it would make it much more useful for energy monitoring...
I was also thinking about adapting my program to submit data to Wattzon, like had been done with pyECM but using the common tenECMServer interface...
Geoff
Expected Soon (mid August)....
* Personal ECM-1240 Software and Home Server
* New Expansion Packages with Special Pricing for Existing ECM owners.
* New Online Monitoring Site
I have the old Brultech unit but finally looking to move on up.. My old one was wireless and it just didnt have enough range.
It seems you can buy 50ft RS232. Anyone try RS232s of that length with this unit?
Also, was there ever a Cocoontech discount? I know there was on the old model.
Also, was there ever a Cocoontech discount? I know there was on the old model.