Current Cost Support Forum

Hi,
it seems that we could make a connection to Pachube. Could anyone explain in details how to proceed ?

Thanks!

Phil

Im still getting my head around the pachube stuff, but basically if you unlock your bridge (ie: make your feed public) you can then access the stream via pachube. To unlock your stream, click the padlock on the devices section of the my.currentcost.com control panel. When you unlock your bridge, the FeedID (on the right hand side of the bridge data).

Within pachube.com you can enter your FeedID and get data from there. http://apps.pachube.com/ has information on how to use the data from this point.

Ive just been trying it today, setup this graph using the google chart api link to pachube: http://www.joelwebb.com/energy/usage.php (its nothing more than the standard google_viz pachube app, except that it will autodect the graph size and datastream id)

-webbj

Hej, Thank you Webbj,
works fine for the consumption, I wonder if there is a way to do the same with the temperature?
Regards.

Phil

You can access the temp data in the same way, if you are using the direct pachube data - ID 0 is the temp, and ID 1 is the energy.

Ive updated my page with an option to try it out, and it seems to come through fine: http://www.joelwebb.com/energy/usage.php

There is a multi-graph discussion on pachube (giving the ability to plot multiple sets of data on the same graph), which i plan on looking at when I get a chance.

If ID 0 = Temp and ID 1 = Total Power are there any IDs that correspond to the phase inputs coz that would be really handy

@webbj Hi, Can you describe how you setup google chart? Looks very cool. Thanks.

I've been trying to play with Pachube and if I use an existing app I can at least get a graph from my data just by using the feed info from the dashboard and using ID 0 for Temp and ID 1 for power. Where I'm really stuck is trying to get a continous feed running so that Pachube can save the data stream for me to suck off when I want it. Anyone got any ideas (I know i'm thick but apart from playing with a BBC computer a long long time ago I've never done any programming )

If Google have given up and gone away (or are about to) then ideally I'd want to get the info saved on a server so that I can use it in the way that I want to with a bit more granularity and flexibility than the Current Cost unit rolls it up into. I really do want to access the three phases independantly with at least a granularity of one hour slots (10-15 mins would be good) without having a computer running 24/7 at home (sort of defeats the object of savinging energy)

Since the demise of Google Powermeter I too am interested in using Pachube as a replacement.

I emailed Pachube support yesterday about this and they gave me a free upgrade to a premium account

Also they said that they are working with Current Cost to make the whole Bridge to Pachube integration far more streamlined. Apparently something is in the works in the next 60 days.

I emailed pachube and got the free upgrade too and was also told that they are working on something before the September deadline