AlertMe SmartEnergy Reader/Hub

ajlennon · November 27, 2011, 4:33pm

Hi,

Has anybody had a look at integrating the AlertMe SmartEnergy hub into Vera? It seems to be retailing at £50 including display and a clamp.
I also read they are now opening an API to make use of the hub and it will seemingly connect via RJ45 wired ethernet.

It also seems to support Zigbee power metering enabled sockets, and the clamp + a number of sockets would probably give me what I want.

Any thoughts?

ajlennon · November 29, 2011, 2:24pm

So far so good. The system goes together well and appears to be reporting to their servers.

I came across a perl script which can be used to query their servers using their API to control devices and return information.
(seems a roundabout route but…)

github.com

andydvsn/alertmepi/blob/master/alertmepi.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

# AlertMe Perl Interface v2.08 (16/05/12)
#
# http://code.google.com/p/alertmepi

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Std;
use RPC::XML::Client;
use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number);

our ($username, $password, $client, $cookie, $randomness, @devices, @eventlog, @status);

# Process options, so we know what we're doing.
my %options=();
getopts("QaA:b:cC:dDe:E:hI:kl:LmM:O:pP:rs:t:UwWz",\%options);

# Display help, if requested.
if($options{h}) {

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So if I was to incorporate this into some Lua I should be able to determine temperature and power utilisation for the various devices…