Remote Battery-Powered Sensor
Like every man and this dog, I'm going to build a battery powered IoT module. Ideally it will Run for >1 year on battery (solar is an option, but an extra complication) Use WiFi or …
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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 …
Scott Road House Gallery
I've recently finished a self-build of a small (90m²) house in Brisbane. It's been "running" for 2 years now. [ape-gallery 360]
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 # …
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 …
Installing Grafana, InfluxDB, Apache2 on AWS EC2: Step by Step
A medium-performance setup for Grafana on AWS. Private files at github . Setup the instance t3.large, Ubuntu 18 (or AWS Linux 2) as I'm familiar with it Seperate root and data disks Security group with …
Consideration for moving to production with InfluxDB, Grafana and AWS EC2
Current Setup This provides background - see Installing Grafana, InfluxDB, Apache2 on AWS EC2: Step by Step . So I've got an InfluxDB collecting time-series data from a half a dozen IoT devices. They feed …