Currently, EmonCMS only supports numerical data. If you try non-numerical data, it will be converted to 0. However, more can be done if non-numerical data types and logical calculation are supported, since EmonCMS can be a generic IoT data collection platform other than only an energy monitor. Any ideas on this?
Possibility of submitting non-numerical data to EmonCMS
Submitted by Jamesits on Thu, 24/03/2016 - 23:28»
Re: Possibility of submitting non-numerical data to EmonCMS
EmonCMS is mainly for graphical display of numeric data.
What do you want to display?
Re: Possibility of submitting non-numerical data to EmonCMS
Hi Chaveiro
This is something I have asking in this post to
https://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/12445
i’d like to be able to pass the the status of my Nest Thermostat back to emoncms (e.g heating,off) and then be able to dispay it in real-time on the dashboard in a text box like paragraph or heading
Thank Steve
Re: Possibility of submitting non-numerical data to EmonCMS
Display custom strings on dashboard, such as the music title which is being played currently. This is pretty cool.
Also, boolean value as well as boolean operations should be supported.
Re: Possibility of submitting non-numerical data to EmonCMS
Maybe in future new engines could exist with string data format, but for 99% graphics are the final usecase and numbers fits the purpose.
For example wind direction is graphically represented as N S W E and between, but a numeric value 0-360 is used, similar can be used for boolean 0-1 and so on.