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Here is a guide to configuring btmon:

http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/po ... howto.html

It includes recipes for various configurations such as windows, multiple btmon instances, uploading to multiple services, serial and TCP/IP comms.

It includes tips and explanations about multiplexing, client/server modes, and configuring a GEM or ECM-1240.

If you find the guide lacking, or if you have a configuration trick that could help others, please post!

A link to the latest btmon release is here:

http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/power

mwall:

Thank you for compiling the guide even though it is almost impossible to take care of all variations of what people want to do. Here are a few suggestions and/or questions. These are not criticisms, just thoughts to make it easier for a person new to things to follow. Please take them as such.

1. You state to put the GEM/ECM in server or client mode without specifying how to do so. I assume that you use the EtherX configuration tool, but that is not specified. The method should be specified or at least a link to it should be in place.

2. I plan on also using the edsmon.py to read from my OW-Server-Enet. I assume that this could be run like your "Run multiple instances of btmon" description. You could add what is necessary to do things like this.

Thanks again for you help.

thank you mike. this is exactly the kind of feedback i am looking for.

i added a few sections about GEM/ECM configuration. it will need an update after i have a chance to play with the new web-based GEM configuration interface.

the guide for edsmon is in the works...

You're welcome. I am always glad to be of some help.

In fact, I would be happy to be a "beta" tester for your web based GEM configuration tool or any of the other guides that you may be working on to give you feedback. I am pretty good at doing this type of thing. Let me know and if you want to contact me I will send you a Private Message with my e-mail address.

I look forward to your work on edsmon.

Mike

Thank you for btmon! It saved me so much time getting data from my GEM.
I have btmon running on a raspberry pi sitting next to the GEM and it is
quite a nice and flexible setup.

I missed the configuration guide at first, but the --help output and the comments
in the beginning of the script were sufficient.

The biggest stumbling block I ran across was running the EtherX configuration
tool. (Without a windows box in the house I had to install wine and run under
emulation)

Is the script kept in a git repo anywhere?

here are wiznet configurators for macosx and linux:

http://www.planetarygear.org/2012/06/wi ... ac-v2.html

btmon (and friends) are in a subversion repository right now. i'm not yet sure whether i will open up access to that repository or transfer everything to git...

Great. Nice work. I would like to add support for pvoutput at some point if I have the time.
(Though, honestly I don't know when I'd have the time right now)

support for pvoutput.org was added awhile ago. it is pretty basic as pvoutput is more of a whole-house monitor rather than multiple channels.

Ok, thanks, I must have an older version of the script.
What's the latest version? I have:

__version__ = '3.0.1'

I just grabbed the first hit with a google search for "btmon.py"

I just want to be able to send instantaneous consumption values to pvoutput,
the solar generation is gathered out-of-band by pvoutput itself. To do that I will
probably have to calculate a stream either by summing all the individual loads
or using the mains stream + solar stream (where solar is typically negative
when generating power). Does btmon already support this kind of configuration?

Thanks!!

as of 27jan2013, the latest btmon is 3.0.6b3.

this page has links to the latest stable releases:

http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/power

every release (including betas) is listed here:

http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/power/releases