madjalapeno
New Member
Hi,
I just bought a new house up here in sunny NH (well it was on Monday anyway). At last I can start to automate and monitor everything.
I've set up a Debian box as a media server using oxylbox, and am monitoring the weather using wview and a Davis Vantage Pro (results here: http://www.jalapeno.co.uk/weather). Now I have those 2 working reliabley, I want to move onto the next phase.
I've noticed that our electricity meter has a red light that pulses. I assume that it pulses with every chunk of electricity used. I would like to be able to monitor those pulses and record them in a graph so I can see how electricity use varies with the weather.
Our house has 4 heating zones, and uses forced hot water. I would like to monitor when the pumps are on and again log that information, along with when the boiler is actually burning oil. I have found this current sensing device (part # 6570K5) on McMaster (www.mcmaster.com) that lights a LED when current is dedected.
So my question is if anyone can recomend a way of logging the activity of all these LED's, with a mind to future extensions of the system to automate some tasks.
TIA
I just bought a new house up here in sunny NH (well it was on Monday anyway). At last I can start to automate and monitor everything.
I've set up a Debian box as a media server using oxylbox, and am monitoring the weather using wview and a Davis Vantage Pro (results here: http://www.jalapeno.co.uk/weather). Now I have those 2 working reliabley, I want to move onto the next phase.
I've noticed that our electricity meter has a red light that pulses. I assume that it pulses with every chunk of electricity used. I would like to be able to monitor those pulses and record them in a graph so I can see how electricity use varies with the weather.
Our house has 4 heating zones, and uses forced hot water. I would like to monitor when the pumps are on and again log that information, along with when the boiler is actually burning oil. I have found this current sensing device (part # 6570K5) on McMaster (www.mcmaster.com) that lights a LED when current is dedected.
So my question is if anyone can recomend a way of logging the activity of all these LED's, with a mind to future extensions of the system to automate some tasks.
TIA