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Hi Tony,

That sounds like a fun solution! We got ours via my housemate''s parents who got it from their supplier!

Chris

Hi Chris,

that is very neat. I once resorted to put a webcam in front of the meter and capturing an image every hour. Unfortunately it involved some manual OCR to get the data! Did you change supplier to get a free one?

Tony

Hi guys,

I remember Tony demoing a system he was running at home which recorded temperature, light levels etc. at his house. We''ve recently got a power monitor (http://www.currentcost.co.uk/) which has a serial connection which I''ve connected to my server. I am going to look at integrating this into a web service for displaying current power usage/history - usefully it is actually outputs XML.

Is any of the stuff you developed for your system publicly available? Any other hints/suggestions to consider when developing such a system?

This may end up with me getting the "bug" and getting more probes to add to the system!

Cheers,

Chris