Re: [Hampshire] CurrentCost meters

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] CurrentCost meters

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:44:35PM +0100, Jon Wilks wrote:
> Hugo Mills wrote:
> >    I've been playing with my shiny new CurrentCost meter that I bought
> > from AndySC on Saturday. I can report that I'm getting data happily
> > out of the serial connection, and that I've started hacking together
> > some Python to interface to it. If anyone's interested, what I've got
> > so far is at [1] -- it only grabs the live data every 6 seconds and
> > shoves it into a database so far.

> >
> >    Next up, some data mangling and plotting tools. :)

> >
> >    Hugo.

> >
> > [1] http://svn.darksatanic.net/svn/ccm/trunk
> >
> >
> Could you not push the data into RRD[1]? I'm sure it would cater for
> your database, data mangling and plotting needs. IIRC it has a Python
> binding too if that is your bag.


I could do, but getting data back *out* of RRD is a right royal
pain. It also doesn't offer much scope for things like interactive
graphs, or AJAX-style interactions.

Hugo.

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