Obviously lots of different people are measuring lots of different 'things' with official and unofficial OEM modules, but there doesn't appear to be a big list/directory somewhere where all these 'things' are listed.
We've all done the 'usual', electricity usage and house temperature, some have gone further to monitor the output of their solar PV systems and heat pumps. I monitor the power going to my electric car charger (seemed like a good idea & it's next to the grid meter and the PV meter).
Monitoring the hallway and landing temperature is pretty standard, then it's interesting to have the outside temperature too.
I also monitor the temperature inside my rain water harvesting tank - it freezes during very cold weather and destroys the pump.
Last week I was wondering what others were monitoring and today I came across a chap who has temperature sensors in the flow/return pipes of his gas boiler to monitor efficiency - so I've add that to the list.
But I was wonder what else I've missed that others are doing?
(Just list them - we can start separate threads to discuss them :)
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
You missed Glyn's beehive monitor.
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
heating oil tank level
rain water harvesting tank level
water flow
water meter
gas meter
server temperature, cpu and ram usage
wifi signal and quality
wind speed, wind direction, rain fall
soil moisture level
humidity (int and ext)
air quality
occupancy / movement
to name just a few off the top of my head...
Paul
PS if recall correctly I think it's Martin Harizanov who logs doorbell events and his childrens TV watching ! Recently another user was wanting to log the number of washing machine and dryer uses following an increase due to a new addition to his family.
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
Heatpumps too (http://openenergymonitor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/heat-pump-monitoring.html). I also know of a company that has used the system to measure the power consumption on-board train carriages.
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
Caravan battery voltage, temperature and charge/discharge current
Brightness (day/night)
Central heating boiler, flow and return temperatures, heating on/off, burner and pump status
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
Drip irrigation system pressure
Pressure drop across irrigation filter (to detect when the filter is plugged)
Liquid level in sump (to sound alarm if sump pump fails)
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
In addition to the usual house monitoring, I have a (very) remote weather station running WeeWx on a Pi, sending data to Wunderground. I use the Emoncms extension to Weewx just to keep an eye on the weather station's battery status, which Wunderground doesn't log.
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
New to the site- thank you for having me!
Mine probably seems on the face of it fairly conventional- a temp. monitor on my solar-heated water tank. The only difference from the norm being that, in order to see the temp. from a different room, I "hacked" a small wireless weatherstation (3€ from a bootsale!) by removing the sensor from the transmitter, extending it a couple of feet & popping it behind the insulation near the top of the tank. Somewhat less hi-tech than the Pi versions I see here, but 2 AAA batteries last about 2 - 3 years.:)
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
Wemo insight and smart maginon sp1 smart wall plugs (those are wifi on / off switches but can monitor energy use of appliances attached to it).
My phones battery level using combination of tasker + mqtt
my wireless sensor tags temprature moisture and battery level using a kumoapp that i wrote that sends the sensor data to emoncms and mqtt for home assistant. Kumoapps are little javascript apps that run on a cloud server of the wireless sensor tags (http://www.wirelesstag.net/)
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http://emoncms.org/Edegem/screedtemp
Here you can see me monitoring the central heating flow and return of the gas combo boiler (a similar one to the UK version, Vaillant ecoTEC plus 835)
I'm also monitoring temperature (with DS18B20 sensors) in my screed floor (underfloor heating).
chapebadkamer1 & 2 = screed temperature bath room
Re: List of 'things' that have been measured with Open Energy Monitor?
Freezer temperature monitoring too