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Quick summary of what I am trying to do: I want to use a Raspberry Pi as a local emoncms server to log inputs from PHP scripts I've created. I can't seem to get the emoncms set up to listen for my API calls.

Here's what I've tried:

I created an SD card from "emonbase ready-to-go SD card image" posted June 17 2015.(http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/10729)

I booted up my RPi and created an account on the local emoncms instance. I have not connected to an emonTx or emonTH. (I plan to do try this eventually, but I have data that I can get locally by parsing information from my inverter, as well as from Weather Underground.)

To begin posting data to my local emoncms, I would like to begin using a url such as this one, which works for my online emoncms.org account:

http://emoncms.org/input/post.json?json={power:200}&apikey=cc3eddc6c4629bfa4088a59exxxxxxxx

But I would like to log data locally, so I substitue my localhost and the API Key from the Admin page.

Problems:

1. The "Input API" page is not available on my local emoncms server. So knowing how exactly to construct my URL.

2. I'm suspicious that a few times I've created a valid URL to post data to my local emoncms, but it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

3. All my nodes on the "Nodes" page show "Inactive".

4. I have had trouble reading the documentation and others' posts to understand if I need to create a node and/or a reporter, and if so how to do it, and if there is more that needs to be done before the node can accept input.

I'd appreciate help. I've really searched the forums and read a number of posts, and it is difficult for me to get a sense for how to proceed.

Thanks

Brandon

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