Hello,

I post this because I know there are some e.on Energy Fit users who lurk
here who may be interested.

A few months back I was sent a free power meter from e.on.

The logging software that came with is was complete ****e so after a
couple of attempts I gave up trying to use it, and have had the monitor
sitting on the side ever since, giving real time power usage readings.
Only semi-useful really.

Last weekend I investigated if there were other better software options
for extracting data, and I made an interesting (and cool to me at least)
discovery.

It seems that the e.on meter is simply a badged version of the Current
Cost ENVI. Top left he http://www.currentcost.co.uk/products.html

On the same page (bottom right) there is a product called "The Bridge".
This device allows you to interface the monitor via internet to the
Google Powermeter application. I ordered one (via Amazon) at the
weekend and it arrived today.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. I can now see my real time
domestic leccy usage from the office, or for that matter anywhere
else....and no PC needs to be on. More interestingly I can download all
the historical usage info simply into a spreadsheet.

Excelleny gizmo (30 quid btw). I now need to wait a week or 2 to see
how well it agrees with my meter.

End of testimonial

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Vortex7 wrote:

The logging software that came with is was complete ****e

It's for windows, so the CD never even made it into a machine.

there is a product called "The Bridge".
This device allows you to interface the monitor via internet to the
Google Powermeter application.

I saw that the other day, does it *only* allow hooking to Google's
service? Or can you connect to it locally over ethernet in a browser for
example?

Excelleny gizmo (30 quid btw). I now need to wait a week or 2 to see how
well it agrees with my meter.

I've got mine hooked to a linux box, I'm not reading the data properly
yet, but every 2 hours the CC128 dumps historic data (last month at 2
hour resolution, last 3 months at 1 day resolution and last 7 years at 1
month resolution) so it wouldn't need to be permanently connected to
gather data.

I've not yet figured out if I can feed RRDTOOL with live information
when a PC is connected, then fill in gaps with historic data without
stomping the course historic data over whatever finer live data I have.

On 12/10/2010 16:31, Andy Burns wrote:
Vortex7 wrote:

The logging software that came with is was complete ****e

It's for windows, so the CD never even made it into a machine.

You have missed nothing. That CD is a waste of plastic.

there is a product called "The Bridge".
This device allows you to interface the monitor via internet to the
Google Powermeter application.

I saw that the other day, does it *only* allow hooking to Google's
service? Or can you connect to it locally over ethernet in a browser for
example?

You can see and download your data from the Google service via any
browser. Seems to work on my Android 'phone too.

There is also a Current Cost portal http://my.currentcost.com/ which I
assume has Google behind it.

A browse of http://groups.google.co.uk/group/cur...t/topics?hl=en
may give some clues on direct access. It must be theoretically possible.



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Vortex7 wrote:
On 12/10/2010 16:31, Andy Burns wrote:

there is a product called "The Bridge".
This device allows you to interface the monitor via internet to the
Google Powermeter application.

I saw that the other day, does it *only* allow hooking to Google's
service? Or can you connect to it locally over ethernet in a browser for
example?

You can see and download your data from the Google service via any
browser. Seems to work on my Android 'phone too.

Not sure if google make the data available via api

There is also a Current Cost portal http://my.currentcost.com/ which I
assume has Google behind it.

Nope, it uploads to http://www.pachube.com/

Current cost have hinted that they may make the data on pachube available

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/cur...aed83b1e?hl=en

There doesn't appear to be anyway of asking the bridge for the data - it
uploads automagically every 5 mins to pachube. currentcost then upload the
data to google (if you link the device - it's optional).

As it stands, the bridge is a bit buggy - it's fine with the newer
currentcost meter apparantly but if you have the older "classic" then
I'd wait for the new firmware version and get confirmation it will
work with the meter.

It's a neat solution, but a bit early adoptor at the mo :-)

Darren - who spent far too much time recently packet sniffing these things :-)