Recent Posts in Energy MonitoringBack to Main Friday 7th December 2012
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing a MQTT to COSM bridge. Unfortunately (I think because of COSM) it has only been staying up and running for a few hours at a time. My original code is here:
Thanks for Mosquitto ... moreThursday 1st December 2011
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I've just come across this great, updated, article Sarah Wilson on tinned tuna http://www.sarahwilson.com.au/2010/04/which-tinned-tuna-should-i-buy/ . Interesting reading! Also if you have any interest in sustainable seafood then you ... moreThursday 19th May 2011
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I was about to un-plug the old Linux work-horse (being slowly replaced by sexy Mac Mini Server) and realised that I hadn't converted my Currentcost Envi to work on OSX. I initially thought it would be pretty straight-forward but after a labourious and unusual CPAN update to my perl installation I hit a road block with talking to the Prolific ... moreFriday 30th July 2010
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The next step was to get the full message and then push up to a little ColdFusion XML consumer to put it all in a database structure. Step 1: Starting from the previous bash script I had to then grab the full message to POST up the ColdFusion website to process the data.
The bash script ... moreThursday 1st July 2010
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The code below is the first attempt at getting my original CurrentCost Classic (or WattsClever) energy monitor connected to my only Fedora Core 5 box and updating the data to Pachube. The Classic connected without any problems (although occasionaly would swap USB ports with my Davis Station connection(???). Use ... more |








