Although my Iskra MT171 does not create a power consumption number, I have found a way to calculate that and send it to Domoticz.

In essence, I start counting time (in seconds) as soon as the Total kWh counter increases, and stop the timer with the next increase.
The consumption is than calculated ...

Hi bbqkees,

I don't know much about Domoticz, but from what I do know, I am pretty sure you cannot "just" create meters (with)in Domoticz, because half-smart meters need to be asked to send the data, they use a different comm port with a different baud rate, and the Telegram they blurt out is ...

Well, a solution turned out to be a lot easier than I initially thought.

Let me start by saying first that this is only an exercise in getting something from my meter to Domotics. My half-smart meter does not send out the current consumption, so there is little of value coming out of Domotics if ...

Hi emme,

Thanks for replying, but note that I'm not using/counting pulses, I'm reading the data coming from the meter.

Counting pulses is the only way to get some data out of a dumb-meter.

I would call my Iskra MT171 meter half-smart and it has a P0 comm. port. There are four major differences ...

At this moment, I do not have a "really" smart meter with a P1 RJ-11 serial port. I will eventually get one and by then things should be easy. I think... :lol:

However, I am currently stuck with an Iskra MT171 meter. I just installed an optical pick-up with a TTL interface to communicate through ...

Although this is a pretty old post right now, I thought to document what I just did to make the change from the SD to a USB drive work. I had to collect information from several places.

This is my first post on this forum, so please bare with me.

I used an 8MB mini USB stick, and wanted to have ...