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Cheap solution to monitor individual circuit on the electrical panel?

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Is there any solution already compatible with Domoticz to monitor individual circuit on the electrical panel?

I have Domoticz on my Synology NAS.

The only solution I found are 2 Amp clamp kit.

I want to monitor the Water tank, dryer, pool thermopump and house thermopump. And some other stuff

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Check out the i2c interface products from NCD.io (current monitors). I have a 4 channel one in my fuse box connected to a dedicated pi and it works with Domoticz. They provide a python script.


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Post by freijn »

Phil, its a solution but not cheap :-(

Go for the below sensor(s) connect it to an node mcu and stuff ESPeasy on it.

Voila

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'Cheap' is of course a relative thing. The 4-channel ncd.io with i2c costs $75. Four of those chinese babies will be $16. You can't exactly buy a new car from that difference... :mrgreen:
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The minimum solution, 6 donuts. The ideal ; 21.

Do you have any website or description on how to build a 21 donuts solution?

And instructions? Parts list,..

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I found this :
https://www.hackster.io/whatnick/esp826 ... tor-b199ed

Now how we connect it to domoticz?

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Using the http client library in arduino for the ESP8266, post to a json url endpoint corresponding to a meter or switch. Google is your friend.


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Why messing around with libraries ? :-)

https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy

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Re: Cheap solution to monitor individual circuit on the electrical panel?

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I found the iotaWatt project on Github. It's a 14 Chanel monitoring using mqtt.
Anyone tested that?
Sound promising.


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