[chbot] Power monitoring

[Richard Jones]

You could monitor and graph the current with one of these USB multimeters
for $40US:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HYELEC-MS8236-6000-Counts-Digital-Multimeter-with-T-RMS-USB-1000V-10A-60M-Ohm-100mF-10MHz/32531814702.html

A while ago there was a power meter give away at the club. If someone could
spare you one I reckon they had an RS232 interface with a fancy protocol
that could be pressed into service with some effort. Then you could measure
real power. I would be interested to see how that works out.

Richard

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Kiel Hurley <kielhurley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for something to measure power usage which can export its
> data. DIY or commercially available (but would prefer it isn't cloud
> connected).
>
> I bought an old fridge off Trade Me and it seems to be on *most* of the
> time, so I'd like to graph it's usage to see what's going on.
>
> Just a single socket for a start. Might add more sockets later, but would
> probably look into monitoring the whole house at that point.
>
> Thanks,
> Kiel
>
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