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Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Friday 15 January 2016 13:45
by stuiow
Hi all,

Think my owl transmitter is a maybe on its way out.
Tried new batteries etc.. but it just seems to be hit and miss whether domoticz (or the owl monitor) picks up updates from the device.

How often are the owl monitor supposed to chuck out updates?

If I move the transmitter slightly (cables etc..), it tends to make a difference on the frequency of update's and whether the monitor or Domoticz picks any updates up at all!!

Cheers

Stuart

Re: Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Friday 15 January 2016 17:30
by stuiow
OK looking into it more, I've got the Byron/Oregon3.0 problem.

OK, electricity meters for the UK, is there another solution to logging electricity usage, another owl transmitter maybe?! with the rfxtrx?

Re: Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Tuesday 15 March 2016 14:28
by markk
I have the same issue. Did you find an alternative to Owl?

Re: Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Tuesday 15 March 2016 16:07
by stuiow
in the end, I opted to go for a z-wave energy meter. Much more reliable and trustworthy, a aeon HEM.

Re: Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Thursday 17 March 2016 0:24
by markk
Ok, thanks. I was hoping to to find something to work with the RFXCom really :(

Re: Owl Energy monitor and update freq

Posted: Saturday 02 April 2016 19:55
by SHadley1138
hi there

i have a weird owl problem, I've just got one connected to my RFLink/pi

it seems to send data in ok, checked via the son url, but it only seems to log to the chart the first hour

anyone heard of that before?