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IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB v1

This post describes how to setup IotaWatt on a single-database (multi-tenant) arrangement in Influx. Previously I described single database setup for Influx, Grafana and IotaWatt. Much of that information is relevant, but changes are noted …

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Hacking the Sungrow 5 Inverter

This inverter has a WiFi connection and opens ports 80 (password protected) and 502 (modbus). It's possible to read the modbus registers. There's a handy script that's done all the hard work. This can import …

Access Grafana v5 via token without login screen

This works for Grafana v5. Grafana v6 has removed this functionality for security reasons. This explains how I implemented a previously outlined solution , in a step-by-step fashion. I initially struggled to get this running. …

Investigating for IotaWatt, AWS, InfluxDB and Grafana

I've previously used EmonCMS to log power and energy data from a IotaWatt / EmonTx system. This works well, but I've been looking for a flexible and fast alternative. The combination of IotaWatt, InfluxDB and …

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Sizing a Battery and Solar System with Phisaver Data

This follows how I sized a solar and battery system for my house, using energy monitoring data from phisaver . An example of the data is below: Sizing the System Firstly I checked the daily …

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Iotawatt: Single Tenant InfluxDB and Grafana Setup

This post summarises how I configure IotaWatt, InfluxDB and Grafana to display energy consumption. It uses an AWS EC2 instance. See installation for preliminary details and IotaWatt: Multi-Tenant Setup using InfluxDB # bash influx # …

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Improving Fridge Performance

As recent client had a few fridges, including wine fridges. They varied in age. Initial PhiSaver analysis over a few weeks showed "Power" was the major user. Power includes all powerpoints in this case. Often …