Breaking things so you don't have to
Those that know me, will vouch that I am a big lover of fancy dashboards, metrics and monitoring. I recently became a customer of Octopus Energy after a situation with Yorkshire Energy, and Scottish Power left a bad taste in my mouth (and wallet) One of the things I really like about Octopus is thatContinue reading Monitoring my energy consumption with Octopus Energy, Grafana, Influxdb and Node.js
The Back Story We have a smart meter fitted at our house and I noticed that it reports back to our provider on a daily basis our electricity consumption. Over the winter we got landed with a huge electricity bill and I was trying to work out why it was so high. I did someContinue reading Home power monitoring with an ESP8266, InfluxDB and Grafana
Good afternoon folks! I have a few raspberry pi’s now on my home network, performing various uses such as media centers, home automation servers, and print servers. Now I have bought another one of these awesome little computers for use in my datashed. I planned to turn it into an environmental monitoring solution, so IContinue reading Raspberry Pi Temperature Sensor That Logs to Grafana