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Hi Jason, There have been various "input interfaces" for emonCMS but currently the only recommended approach is to use emonHub. OEM Gateway was emonHub's predecessor and both the "raspberrypi" module for emoncms and the "emoncms-module-rfm2pi" debian package have been retired to focus on the 1 interface.

emonHub will work with jeelink, I use one myself with emonHub, on a windows PC.

There is more info on how to install emonHub in the Emonhub installation/update thread and to use the JeeLink you will need to make some minor changes in settings to redirect the rfm2pi interfacer to the usb port, you can also rename it if you prefer, if you were using a Pi I would of said create a new interfacer like the rfm2pi interfacer, but since you are on a pc, I assume you have no need for the rfm2pi interfacer so it may as well be altered, either way you need to end up with settings along the lines of

[[JeeLink]]
    Type = EmonHubJeeInterfacer
    [[[init_settings]]
        com_port = /dev/ttyUSB0
    [[[runtimesettings]]]
        group = 210
        baseid = 15
        frequency = 433

edit the usb port address if required and the group, baseid and frequency in the example are also the default values so can be omitted unless you wish to use a different setting.

You will need to add your emoncms apikey etc much the same as you did with OEMG.

​Paul

Thanks for your help Paul.

With a bit of mucking around I've got emonhub reading from the Jeelink/emonTx. I've posted another question about why emonhub is reporting dropping invalid frames.

One comment I might make with link you sent me above, it makes mention of dev-emonhub on github. In looking for the 'release version' I found the emonhub project (https://github.com/emonhub/emonhub) and the readme it has a link to the 'release version', which has an empty project and a link to another website with some more circular links back to other documentation and the OEM website (from memory).

I guess I'm wondering is there a 'release' version of emonhub or should people just be taking a cut from the dev project? 

Regards,

Jason

Hi Jason, The original plan was to release emonHub as a debian package, so the "Master" branch on github was reserved for the "released version", however the debian thing hasn't happened (yet) and emonHub didn't get formally released as such, the "dev" version got included on the SD card image and well, here we are.

Apologies for the lack of documentation too, I did begin work on a documentation website, but took it down as it was incomplete and development took priority as emonHub was gaining pace.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your continued support. I was thinking about documenting my experience so that it might help future nubes. If you are interested I'll send you a copy and if you think it is useful then perhaps we can find an appropriate place to post it.

Last night I also decided that I would like to extract my Solar PV data from PVOutput.org. I've seen plenty of posts wanting to extract data from emoncms and sent to PVOutput, but not the other way around. I've started writing a script which may be useful to others. I'll see how it goes.

Regards,

Jason

Any additional documentation is helpful as it is always a bit thin, there is very little on the JeeLink.

​I'm sure there would other users that would find a tool to extract PVOutput data useful so do keep us posted.