I was going to try Xively based on one of the threads on the Aeon power monitor device. I ran into a snag, they’re no longer allowing free developer accounts.
I was digging around and found GroveStreams.com - has anyone else tried it? The API is straightforward, and their UI/data manipulation tools are pretty slick, and they have a free dev account. I asked, and they’re interested in getting more hobbyist developers experimenting with their systems.
There are per-minute call quotas and so forth, but been working fine for my purposes.
Thingspeak has an opensource server. I had mine up and running in less than a half hour. It appears you can still get a free developer account over xively as well.
Do you guys have some general feedback on each of these? These are my impressions so far, and I’ll take anything I can get. They take an investment in time, which I am doing, but it’s slow going for me. Any pointers would be great.
Bidgely: Nice app, easy to use, has appliance detection algorithms, doesn’t support electric cars/geothermal (not a big deal), nice energy notifications, difficult to fix problems like accounts, etc,.
Thingspeak: Haven’t dived in, on the face of it, looks nice but can’t see anything yet.
Grovestreams: Looks dated, but quality so far. Seems a lot of people use it.
Initialstates. Nice ST integration, nice graphs, I broke some and haven’t checked out what happened yet.
Plotwatt. Nice SmartApp, but takes a little bit to get off the ground, and now I’m stuck back on “unauthorized” which is probably a throttling issue, but I can’t self fix, I’m waiting for their support to respond.
Phew… will try to edit this post as I find out more.