AMaskedMan
December 22, 2016, 5:21pm
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How do you actually collect and log (historically) energy use? Its one thing to collect it, but how do you record it and such?
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AMaskedMan
December 22, 2016, 6:31pm
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Thank you for the reply. I think I will hold off on automation. Nothing seems ready, integration is missing, and unless you buy into the apple contained slave plantation ecosystem, nothing really seem to work well together (other than turning on and off lights).
Any device logging watts and kwh’s (or a large number of other things) can use this in ST:
Hi all,
Here’s a write-up of how I’m using InfluxDB and Grafana to visualise SmartThings device states in charts and dashboards.
The solution uses a custom SmartApp I’ve written to send data from SmartThings to InfluxDB. Crucially it supports the database server being on the same private LAN as the SmartThings hub, so there’s no need to make your database server accessible from the internet.
I’m quite pleased with it so far. In conjunction with my Evohome (Connect) SmartApp I’m getting some great graphs of my home heating behaviour and energy usage.
Here’s an example of a temperature chart:
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Here’s an Evohome Heating Zone chart with some overlays:
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I aim to post another article covering some of the more-advanced Grafana features like templating and annotations in th…
Example graph:
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