Confused with Virtual Feeds

G0LGS · 2022-03-23T10:45:35.957Z

Sometime ago I created a Virtual Feed on my emonPi that shows the approx cost of the Power used today, it takes my feed for kWh/d and multiplies it by a given cost. Now I’m try to re-create this on another emonPi but I can’t seem to find how I did it previously.

On the original it looks like

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and

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but on my other emon Pi if I try to create a new Virtual Feed it only shows as:

and I cannot add any processing.

What am I doing wrong ?

I have looked at all the various installed software components and they seem to the be same on both emonPi devices:

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Timbones · 2022-03-23T10:56:54.127Z

You need to create a virtual feed, whereas the one you have there is MySQL. Be sure to select the VIRTUAL feed engine when creating the feed.

G0LGS · 2022-03-23T11:00:30.222Z

That is exactly what I did, but it still comes up as MYSQL

and that happens on both emonPi’s

Timbones · 2022-03-23T11:22:58.656Z

That is odd.

The only think I can think of is to check the Feed engine settings in settings.ini, and make sure that 7 (VIRTUAL) is not hidden:

; Feed settings
[feed]
; Supported engines. List engines by id to disable feed creation.
; Existing feeds with a hidden engine still work
; MYSQL:0, MYSQLMEMORY:8, PHPTIMESERIES:2, PHPFINA:5, CASSANDRA:10
engines_hidden = [0,8,10]

Failing that, are there any log messages that seem relevant?

G0LGS · 2022-03-23T11:44:37.699Z

Settings.ini has:

[feed]
engines_hidden = [0,6,10]

Which log ?

G0LGS · 2022-03-23T16:57:21.578Z

If I use another emonPi that happens to be using older versions of software:

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When I go to add a Virtual Feed I get

Clicking Save works and I get a Virtual Feed that I can then do the Processing list on.

TrystanLea · 2022-03-25T10:29:05.830Z

Virtual feed creation seems to be working fine for me here on 11.0.7 on an emonPi. I wonder if there might be a browser cache issue? could you try doing a full page refresh on the feeds list page to see if that fixes the issue?

G0LGS · 2022-03-25T22:14:46.775Z

Having just updated the emonPi (at home) that was running 10.8.5 (to all the crrent stable versions of code) I had the same issue in Chrome Browser, but not with Opera Browser, However Ctrl-F5 seems to have resolved it - I will check again next week when I’m back where the other devices are located.

G0LGS · 2022-03-28T08:44:12.438Z

Thanks - that has resolved it.

TrystanLea · 2022-03-29T09:34:57.998Z

Great to hear!