Good Day All,
I just came across emoncms and I am very interested in experimenting with it.
However, I have a few questions that I hope can be answered.
1. If I have a 3rd party energy meter, say the PowerScout from Dent Instruments, that has an RS485 output, and I hook it up to a GPRS/3G modem, can I port the data to emoncms?
2. The meter measures up to 50 parameters and outputs about 15 different readings, I can send all those readings to emoncms?
3. what detailed information would I need from the meter to be able to know what information is which?
4. I can port the data from the gprs modem direct to emoncms right?
5. would I still need an emonBase?
Hope somebody can assist me here.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Saiful
Re: 3rd party energy meter (RS485 output) + gprs modem to emoncms
You can send your data directly if you manage to let your device format it according to the input API. Here's an example:
http://emoncms.org/input/post.json?node=1&csv=100,200,300
Node is the number you arbitrarily attribute to your device. The trailing values are the values you measure. There are other syntaxes available, some of which allowing you to set a value name, but the idea is the same.