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I'm a newbie to GEM and btmon - so I apologize in advance if any of my questions are dense.

I'm struggling to get my head around btmon. Using a new GEM with current firmware and btmon.py 3.1.1.
Running on CentOS 7 now (I was running under 6.5 but python-rrdtool was failing under the older version of python)

1. I was trying to use rrd and I found that aws was reliably populated but that pws was always 0. I then set it up with mysql and I seem to have the same result.
In reading through the code, it sounds like aws is absolute watts and pws is (only) positive watts? Is that correct? I haven't been able to find a clear explanation
I've tried reversing the polarity of the CT and reversing it in btmon - and pws is always 0. Am I overlooking something?

2. Second question, is there a way to get btmon to report amps for each channel?
Looking at the print example, I think that perhaps it only reports amps for ECM packets.
It would be very nice to get the amps data so that PF can be calculated.

Example from btmon w/print:

2016/01/15 19:59:23: Serial: 01100XXX
2016/01/15 19:59:23: Voltage: 123.50V
2016/01/15 19:59:23: Ch01: 0.026282KWh ( 68W)

2016/01/15 19:59:23 MYSQL: opening connection to localhost
2016/01/15 19:59:23 DB: query: INSERT INTO gem.gem48ptbin_counters (time_created,serial,secs,volts,ch1_aws,ch1_pws,ch2_aws,ch2_pws,ch3_aws,ch3_pws,ch4_aws,ch4_pws,ch5_aws,ch5_pws,ch6_aws,ch6_pws,ch7_aws,ch7_pws,ch
8_aws,ch8_pws,ch9_aws,ch9_pws,ch10_aws,ch10_pws,ch11_aws,ch11_pws,ch12_aws,ch12_pws,ch13_aws,ch13_pws,ch14_aws,ch14_pws,ch15_aws,ch15_pws,ch
16_aws,ch16_pws,ch17_aws,ch17_pws,ch18_aws,ch18_pws,ch19_aws,ch19_pws,ch20_aws,ch20_pws,ch21_aws,ch21_pws,ch22_aws,ch22_pws,ch23_aws,ch23_p
ws,ch24_aws,ch24_pws,ch25_aws,ch25_pws,ch26_aws,ch26_pws,ch27_aws,ch27_pws,ch28_aws,ch28_pws,ch29_aws,ch29_pws,ch30_aws,ch30_pws,ch31_aws,ch
31_pws,ch32_aws,ch32_pws,p1,p2,p3,p4,t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6,t7,t8) VALUES (1452905963,'01100XXX',1403,123.5,94614,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0)

1. pws is likely polarized watt seconds, it'll only go up when you're generating power.

2. Looks like amps aren't implemented in the script for the GEM, they'd have to be added in.