Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 105Jun 24, 2017 10:40 am Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Your Connected Home. What have you done / what do you ne 119Jun 25, 2017 9:01 am arcadelt benhelps Just curious if you found a power meter solution? In the current ancient miners cottage house we live in, we got a Saturn South power monitoring thing installed in our meter box (by Our Green Home). I can check real time power at any time on their website dashboard, costs (if I've defined a tariff), graphs of power use by hour/day/month/year, etc. I've also tinkered with the unit itself (an ESBox) and can have it send the data to a server of my choosing - I'm presently working on sending the data to a server at home and from there (via node-red) on to the Our Green Home service. I have bought a monitoring kit from efergy (http://efergy.com/au/). It was reasonably inexpensive and it looks good from the marketing, but I have not installed it yet so do not not how well it performs. It seems to have main components similar to your Saturn South product, although the Saturn South units looks more like a professional item, whereas the efergy is clearly and add-on DIY product. I do wonder whether a Smart Meter solution as has been rolled out in VIC might be the best solution, but since NSW has not mandated these, I'm concerned that we might install something that was not compatible with what distributors might agree on if they are required to implement a statewide solution in the future. In truth, I've not looked into it further since I found the efergy system, but given the installation of a switchboard looks like a major undertaking and not one that is easily changeable I'll do that soon. I may even ring our power company to see if they have a preferred smart meter. Are you in Victoria and is the Saturn Smart part of the Government's program? Edit: I see that Our Green Home is a monitoring solution provider, so probably not Victoria. Does their service work well for you? As far as it goes Our Green Home (OGH) works well - it's rarely been down and provides a simple, pretty interface for querying power usage history and real time. I'd love it to provide open access to the data (via and API or even IFTTT) however they kind of feel like the whole offering was someone's brainchild a few years ago that has since been put into maintenance only on the shelf. The service works, but the forums are a ghost town, and support practically non-existent. However given the hardware is accessible to the technically inclined I'm hoping to design my own collection of their data (I'd like to have my home automation system trigger things based on power draw levels, infer when dumb devices are on/off based on power changes, etc) Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39450 Hi All, I just wanted to close this topic out with an update. So we ended up agreeing to a number with the insurance company, and after an extensive amount of hand… 8 23348 You have mandatory building inspections and privately engaged building inspections. The difference between the two comes down to inspecting the building so it's safe and… 3 18025 |