Im reading data directly from my pc from my selfmade energy monitor with the specifications . So if i want to upload these reading directly to EMONCMS how can i go about this . do i really need a raspberry pi since its just a PC . i saw another post but the person was using UBUNTU , so can someone point me in the right direction . Thank you
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Re: upload directly from windows 8
There is an input api help page to give you example urls if you wish to write a script of your own or you could still use emonhub as it runs perfectly well on windows too. There is no installer to automate the installation but it's not too difficult.
How is your data currently accessed, passed or stored?
Paul
Re: upload directly from windows 8
my data is currently being stored in txt format , and im using Makerplot to show the data. so thought off going the extra mile ..
Re: upload directly from windows 8
maybe i need to specify what i am doing more . I built the enrgy monitor from the base up . a bit of a handsy person . Then i connected it directly to my pc via UART . so there is no wireless measurement . Secondly i used MAKERPLOT to plot the graphs for offline use . So i wanted remote monitoring . But now i see most of it is based on the raspberry pi . That were my question arises of if i can just use my windows 8pc with the arduino and directly connect to EMONCMS
Re: upload directly from windows 8
The Pi is by far the most popular OEM platform but many other platforms are used and there are a fair few users using windows. I think the main reasons the Pi is favorite is because it's linux based, as is most development and it only consumes a few watts. To get the full energy monitoring picture data is best collated non-stop and running a windows desktop pc 24/7 (no sleeping) just to help conserve energy can be difficult to justify, but if it's on anyway.. it makes sense to use it if you can.
I guess you already have a script reading the serial data and saving to file so you could add to that to use the emoncms input api or as I mentioned you could use emonhub, your arduino would need to output in the "OEM format" and emonhub would read the serial data and forward to emoncms, although not part of emonhub (currently) I do have a "save to csv" reporter for emonhub that could be used to also save your csv/text files too so you wouldn't need anything else.