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rhursonrhurson Posts: 5
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I have a client that is looking to display the info from Google PowerMeter on there touchpanel.
http://www.google.org/powermeter/

He is also looking to display info from his Solar system using this http://www.enphaseenergy.com/products/products/enlighten.cfm
http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html

Has anyone worked with these? How about another power monitoring device that works well with AMX?

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    ericmedleyericmedley Posts: 4,177
    rhurson wrote: »
    I have a client that is looking to display the info from Google PowerMeter on there touchpanel.
    http://www.google.org/powermeter/

    He is also looking to display info from his Solar system using this http://www.enphaseenergy.com/products/products/enlighten.cfm
    http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html

    Has anyone worked with these? How about another power monitoring device that works well with AMX?
    We were doing some work with TED. the basic prgramming principle is web scraping and/or scraping an RSS feed. You can then create graphics using levels are whatnot.

    We do this kind of thing with several clients. It's all the rage now.

    My question has always been, "what do you do with this information?" It never seems to go beyond that.

    At my personal residnece I actually moniotr the power use and it plays into my energy management system on my AMX contorller. I've been playing with it for about 2 years now and have drastically reduced my light bill. (sometimes by half.)

    I'm not all 'Green' or anything. I do like saving money, however.
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    ColzieColzie Posts: 470
    When using a TED what information are you able to extract and show on a TP? Is it real-time? Can you flip off your home theater and watch the numbers drop?
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    ericmedleyericmedley Posts: 4,177
    Colzie wrote: »
    When using a TED what information are you able to extract and show on a TP? Is it real-time? Can you flip off your home theater and watch the numbers drop?


    Yes, it is real time. And yes, you can watch the numbers drop.

    I've done single breaker version and I don't know if this information is that useful in that there can beseveral loads on one breaker.

    There are some that will moniotr individual devices. That too is a bit of a bugbear in that it is possible to know when something is on or off.

    What I've been trying to do is make some semi-intelligent choices of what should be on and off at any given time and so forth. It has proven to be pretty challenging. I find that hte best success is in HVAC use, Lighting in unoccupied rooms and so forth.

    I really want to come up with some way to disable an electric water heater when not being used and jazz it up just proor to when the owner comes home from work.
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    rhursonrhurson Posts: 5
    ericmedley wrote: »
    We were doing some work with TED. the basic prgramming principle is web scraping and/or scraping an RSS feed. You can then create graphics using levels are whatnot.

    I haven't done web scraping before. Sounds like it's just like parsing out data. Do you have some example code you would be willing to share? He is going to be using the TED.
    How time consuming is it? I don't really need to do anything with the data other than just give him a nice display of the info on his 10" panel.
    Thanks
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    TurnipTruckTurnipTruck Posts: 1,485
    For real solid energy usage monitoring look at

    http://www.ccontrolsys.com/products/pulse_output.html

    Output pulse frequency follows demand. The math is easily calculated in Netlinx.
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