Plugwise
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:13 am
If anybody is interested in incorporating Plugwise into HouseBot, just let me know.
Attached a screenshot of my setup. I got 15 Circles monitoring all power consuming devices. You can switch them on or off for power consumption when for instance arming your alarm system or going on vacation. Since it monitors power, you can add some nice indicators in your theme to show if your dishwasher etc is active or not.
The four slashed numbers in the image represents the consuption of the last four hours. Updated every hour.
You can do some more extensive monitoring with dbased history using the Plugwise software Source which is included in the package if you but a Plugwise set.
In my setup, the so called Circles (power plug monitoring devices) can be enabled or disabled (by setting the grey radio buttons), switched on or off (by pressing and holding the red pwr buttons) and auto switch on an event such as an alarm arming event (by setting the red radio buttons). Before switching off the power consumption is compared to a threshold value you can set yourself to prevent a device from switching off while still in use. You can set a threshold value of 0 to prevent switching at all times. Handy when you don't want your Sever PC to switch by accident.
Theme panel, hardware device, generic serial device, script + script device, null device, timer and lots of properties
Attached a screenshot of my setup. I got 15 Circles monitoring all power consuming devices. You can switch them on or off for power consumption when for instance arming your alarm system or going on vacation. Since it monitors power, you can add some nice indicators in your theme to show if your dishwasher etc is active or not.
The four slashed numbers in the image represents the consuption of the last four hours. Updated every hour.
You can do some more extensive monitoring with dbased history using the Plugwise software Source which is included in the package if you but a Plugwise set.
In my setup, the so called Circles (power plug monitoring devices) can be enabled or disabled (by setting the grey radio buttons), switched on or off (by pressing and holding the red pwr buttons) and auto switch on an event such as an alarm arming event (by setting the red radio buttons). Before switching off the power consumption is compared to a threshold value you can set yourself to prevent a device from switching off while still in use. You can set a threshold value of 0 to prevent switching at all times. Handy when you don't want your Sever PC to switch by accident.
Theme panel, hardware device, generic serial device, script + script device, null device, timer and lots of properties