The split phase firmware is available and can be installed just fine from the Admin → Update screen. It’s just that people might not know that they need to do this, and that’s what I intend to add to the documentation.
Yes, I asked in this thread and you confirmed that was “one that got away” from being included in the documentation. So I know what needs to be added to the docs and it’s just a matter of doing so and submitting a pull request.
Yes. The FAQ suggest http://www.electropedia.org/ for looking up terms, but their definition for energy says “Specific energy, or energy per mass, is denoted e or w.” which makes it sound like energy is measured in Watts. I posted about that here and I now know that energy is not measured in Watts, but rather Wh (or KWh, MWh, etc.). Electricians wouldn’t have made that mistake, but then again electricians wouldn’t have to look up the definition of energy either. Having a glossary would help avoid people (specifically, non-electricians) being confused by what electropedia says.
Maybe. I’m going to re-read the section on setting up emonCMS and try to better understand how everything fits together. It didn’t work for me the first time through, but now that I know more about how the system works (e.g. measuring voltage instead of assuming it is 120V; that power and energy aren’t being used interchangeably, etc.) it might all make a lot more sense. And that section is already linked to from the emonPi2 setup instructions, so I think we’re pretty good on linking there.
Probably not. During the initial setup, I want to find the information I need quickly. Reading through a long forum post to get the context is not well suited for that. The forum posts very helpful when I run into a specific problem and a forum search pulls up someone who has encountered the exact same error, but that’s not the type of information or level of detail I want when I just want to get a basic setup working.