TimescaleDB
Why not Influx I’ve been using Influx (v1 and v2). Flux is great but now (2025) unsupported. Influx has bugs with won’t […]
Category: Sustainable Buildings
Electricity Cables: size matters
Ever see a big power cable and wonder the maximum current it can carry? No? Oh well, here it is just in […]
CTs for IotaWatt 8266
CT Orientation Echun (ECS) and Accu CTs can be used with the IotaWatt. To align with current flow: Big CTs – configuration […]
Grafana Multi-Tenant
Teams, Folders, Organisations … and Provisioning. What’s up with that? I use Grafana to display data about IoT devices (PhiSaver). It’s all […]
Complex Electricity Metering
How to get meaningful energy efficiency results when there is a spaghetti of boards Look at that mess! We focus on the […]
Smart House: Why? How?
I want some simple functions for the H33 house: Energy monitoring: easy with Phisaver at the switchboard House off: turn off all […]
Energy Dashboards
Currently (2021) PhiSaver has one billlion data points. It’s a bit hard to display in a single user dashboard. An efficient user […]
Energy Monitoring: Circuit Positives and Negatives!
Control Volume Switchboard This is how I use a control-volume approach to practically monitor circuits. It’s half maths and half “it’s easy […]
Enclosures for electronics and RF
Investigations into using ABS, polycarbonate and sheet metal enclosures to house electronics with a focus on getting that radio signal (wifi, 3G/4G) […]