Anyone know of some way to get whole home energy usage into my Vera?
It looks like the TED 5000 might work. They have an API. Seems like some Luup integration might do the trick. Imagine turning off things if the energy usage gets too high, etc.
Of course Vera will give a good estimate of anything being switched by Vera, by using the time it was on and the Wattage that you enter for that device.
We already have the plugin for TED5000 available. We will integrate it in the next firmware release, as for now we’re still running some tests with it.
Are you talking to it over it’s Ethernet interface, or over it’s ZigBee one? I’d be interested in helping get the ZigBee interface operational if you guys can get the documentation for it from the T.E.D folks.
I’m hoping they expose the same capabilities over their ZigBee channel that they do over their Ethernet interface.
I have all the other components to do it, just need their ZigBee Protocol doco to get started and unfortunately this isn’t available (only the Ethernet proto is available)
My Goal: Make it trivial to connect TED to Vera in cases where folks don’t have Ethernet (like near their Power board) using Off the Shelf components.
[quote=“fred, post:1, topic:165335”]Anyone know of some way to get whole home energy usage into my Vera?
It looks like the TED 5000 might work. They have an API. Seems like some Luup integration might do the trick. Imagine turning off things if the energy usage gets too high, etc.
We already have the plugin for TED5000 available. We will integrate it in the next firmware release, as for now we’re still running some tests with it.[/quote]
We already have the plugin for TED5000 available. We will integrate it in the next firmware release, as for now we’re still running some tests with it.[/quote]
Any update on this? I have a TED5000 and would love to integrate it into my new vera2…
I just plugged in a TED5000 I had already with the USB option.
I think it created a FTDI serial port device but UI4 didn’t actually respond to plugging it in.
Can I do anything with this at all yet?
One of the first things I’d really like is a chart of the energy useage for the day/week/month.
Seems to be like most other things that never made it off the to-do pile. Odd considering a mention earlier in the thread about a plugin!
I was also interested in this but stupidly went with the Aeon solution which currently doesn’t work.
The blue line energy monitor is also a good viable solution and possibly easier to mount as it doesn’t rely on the CT clamps (reads the meter itself) and the monitoring can be expanded to include the WiFi bridge to link to Microsoft Hohm:
Or a bit cheaper if you buy them separately using the older Black and Decker monitor (used to be a B&D product) before Blue line expanded on it with the WiFi bridge:
Total price is then about $175 (about a hundred cheaper).
Initially I think this was only supported by Microsoft Hohm but its now also supported by Google powermeter and there’s now an API to interface with the WiFi bridge (or perhaps directly with the data on the Hohm site somehow)
You know, I almost wish projects like these would be left to the community to integrate… that would give the MCV folks to focus on the core functionality of Vera, and ensure that these projects are completed while the products are still popular. I think the discussions on ted5000 support started over a year ago.
[quote=“strangely, post:17, topic:165335”]Or a bit cheaper if you buy them separately using the older Black and Decker monitor (used to be a B&D product) before Blue line expanded on it with the WiFi bridge: