Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If you want to expand from just monitoring a couple sockets to monitoring the whole house; I’d recommend Iotawatt. I’ve been using one of these to monitor every circuit in my house for a few years now.
You can use the built in webpages shown below to view it’s internal graphs, or setup an exporter to feed the data into external DBs like influxDB+Graphana or Emoncms.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Very cool! However, my house is a rental, so any monitoring equipment has to be somewhat non-invasive.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’m in a rental too. It’s non-invasive; just gotta pop the panel cover off, clip the transformers over the wires without disconnecting them, and put the cover back.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Uh oh. Red flag.
This may be where the rental agreement is broken. Define ‘pop’ . Two hands and a tool? Clear it with the landlord first. The company running the 400-unit building where I am now is gonna say F No.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spaces before a full stop? Really?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s between you and your landlord. Mine was fine with it as it doesn’t actually modify any of the wiring.