For the mySmartGrid project I will use a Chumby as a device for showing the resource consumption, in addition to providing other features. Since I will roll this out in up to 1000 households configuration needs to be automatic. The problem is: how does a Chumby (or any other device) locate the Flukso in the local LAN? Turns out that Zeroconf is a neat solution to this. I use http://www.avahi.org for this.
After the Fosdem talk, Bart & Mathias mentioned that it would be possible to connect an in-circuit meter to the fluksometer, in order to get the most accurate reading.
In http://www.flukso.net/content/real-power-and-apparent-power there is a comment by Bart stating that we need to look for a meter complying with IEC61036 so I found this unit: http://www.socomec.com/presentation-countis-am10_en.html
Would that be ok?
Wouter and I observed clipping in the hourly graphs at around 7200W. Often in combination with gaps in the graph. I also noticed this in the graph of a third user.
Of all cases I have screenshots available if desired. I suspect it is a bug of the sensor board, something must be overflowing or something.
Hi,
I have spent some free time to write a little bot that analyzes my energy consumption and tweets its thoughts. It can be found on twitter:
This is a little experiment of mine -- do I really want to provide anyone access to my energy consumption data? It felt weird this morning when a friend of mine reconstructed the time of my first coffee. At the moment it is using my real datastream. I am pretty sure I will randomize this in the future. You can read more about it here:
Commit 75 introduces a new repository layout which should allow anyone with basic Linux skills to build a custom OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09 kernel and loads of OpenWRT packages for the Fluksometer. A proper introduction to the OpenWRT build environment can be found here. Without further delay, the quick install guide:
