A taste of things to come? - UK smart meter data access

I’ve installed a device to capture SMETS1 smart meter data every few secs

https://www.hildebrand.co.uk/our-products/glow-stick-wifi-cad/ 12

It’s USB powered so I just stuck it into a Raspberry Pi (just for the power/no data flows) – very convenient.

The Hildebrand BRIGHT mobile App provides comprehensive smart meter data updating about every 6 secs.

Having been registered to also access the data via MQTT – a free service - I’ve now cobbled together a script to integrate 10 secs data into emoncms – power now, energy today and CUM energy.

It owes a lot to the efforts of others. And this handy tool helped …

https://curl.trillworks.com/#python

The script has HOW TO notes embedded.

glow.zip (2.6 KB)

It’s a standalone Python script not relying on another bash script being called.

And the data is revenue grade accurate – our bills are based on it – unlike CTs.

It may be of interest.

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