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Can someone help please, I have my heat monitor board setup and I can see my from the log emonhub sees the heat meter but doesn’t read anything from it, or do I need to add something elsewhere.

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Have you edited the emonhub config?

If so (it looks like you have), please post the heat meter config section.

Please try and post correctly formatted text rather than screenshots (use the </> button).

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Sorry for the screenshot, trying to do from IPad so here is another one for now and I’ll try to do it the way you want in future. Thanks Mike

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I don’t know the answer, but there are quite a few posts here on sontex (not this model) have you looked at the various posts?

The sontex 449 does not appear to be listed in the interfacer so is not directly supported. You would probably need to specify the registers yourself. (emonhub/EmonHubMBUSInterfacer.py at afa562bb371a2a426c80ed15a96d808efefc2fed · openenergymonitor/emonhub · GitHub)

@TrystanLea would be the best source for an answer I suspect.

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Is emonhub still running when you go to the Admin System Information page?

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I wonder if it’s just crashed out without logging an error to the log? it’s strange that there are no MBUS requests being made and logged in the log…

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I don’t think that ‘type’ is valid. The code doesn’t appear to check for a valid value.

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aha yes you are right! @Satwelsh can you try type = standard

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Can you see the MBUS ID on the LCD? The address in emonhub needs to match the ID of your meter. Alternatively, you can use this script to set the ID to 1:

python3 /opt/emoncms/modules/usefulscripts/mbus/./mbus_set_address.py

With the ID set to 1 the following config shuld work:

[[MBUS]]
    Type = EmonHubMBUSInterfacer
    [[[init_settings]]]
        device = /dev/ttyAMA0
        baud = 2400
    [[[runtimesettings]]]
        pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,
        read_interval = 10
        validate_checksum = False
        nodename = MBUS
        [[[[meters]]]]
            [[[[[heatmeter]]]]]
                address = 1
                type = standard
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#pleaseaddtothedocs

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Hi all and thanks for all your input, so I need help but don’t want spoon feeding or I will never learn. I really haven’t a clue on setting up emoncms, logging into the pi for system changes, I can edit emonhub although nothing works or logs yet?. I have an electric meter smartrail x45m onto a modbus connector connected but not recording anything. And I have two sensors from the shop but need to edit the config? to make them work. If there are any walk through on here I can’t find them sorry

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That shouldn’t be necessary - the default settings should be there and you should see the inputs.

A quick rundown of emonCMS:
Data comes in to emonhub. If the structure/format of the data doesn’t fit one of the specifications in emonhub.conf, everything from that device in the data feed grinds to a halt there. If it does fit, it gets passed on to the Inputs page. There you can ‘fiddle’ with it. Click the spanner icon on the end of the line for each value, and you can add a ‘process’ that, for example, scales the value, converts power to accumulated energy, and so on. From there, you must “Log to Feed” to store the data. A Feed is a database - one for each quantity you want to store. Once the data is in there, you can look at it with Graphs or assemble a ‘Dashboard’ with dials etc, or use a pre-built ‘Visualisation’.

If you can’t see anything, the first place to look is the emonhub log file. If it’s in there with no errors, go to the Inputs page. If it’s getting to the Inputs page, is it logged to a Feed? If yes, go to the Feeds page to check. There, you can trigger a graph (but leave this for a while so that you have enough data to see). If you get this far, then you have something to work with.

Your emonPi is Node 5. This is what emonhub log looks like for Node 5 (Yours won’t be identical, this is the CM version)

2022-12-19 23:22:50,147 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089 NEW FRAME : OK 5 142 0 132 0 18 1 99 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 127 172 31 0 0 0 0 0 25 162 31 0 178 98 33 0 (-0)
2022-12-19 23:22:50,151 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089 Timestamp : 1671492170.146580
2022-12-19 23:22:50,152 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089 From Node : 5
2022-12-19 23:22:50,152 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089    Values : [142, 132, 274, 239.07, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2075775, 0, 2073113, 2187954]
2022-12-19 23:22:50,153 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089 Sent to channel(start)' : ToEmonCMS
2022-12-19 23:22:50,154 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     3509089 Sent to channel(end)' : ToEmonCMS
2022-12-19 23:22:50,201 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/power1 142
2022-12-19 23:22:50,204 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/power2 132
2022-12-19 23:22:50,206 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/power1pluspower2 274
2022-12-19 23:22:50,208 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/vrms 239.07
2022-12-19 23:22:50,211 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t1 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,213 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t2 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,215 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t3 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,216 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t4 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,218 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t5 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,220 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/t6 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,222 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/pulse1count 2075775
2022-12-19 23:22:50,224 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/pulse2count 0
2022-12-19 23:22:50,225 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/E1 2073113
2022-12-19 23:22:50,227 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emon/emonpi/E2 2187954
2022-12-19 23:22:50,229 INFO     MQTT       Publishing 'node' formatted msg
2022-12-19 23:22:50,230 DEBUG    MQTT       Publishing: emonhub/rx/5/values 142,132,274,239.07,0,0,0,0,0,0,2075775,0,2073113,2187954

On the first line, OK says the message is intact, 5 is the Node ID - which is what you look for.

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Documentation for emonHub MBUS interfacers are here: https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/emonhub/emonhub-interfacers.html#mbus-reader-for-electric-and-heat-meters

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This bit isn’t (AFAICS)

Neither is the Standard config (as shown here).

I think this interfacer section needs to be first broken down by the interfacer name, and then the supported hardware.

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Evening all, so sorry everyone I now have this in feeds, am I getting anywhere or does it mean nothing.

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Are you able to read data from the heat meter? Please post your emonhub.log

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Here is my latest log

022-12-20 22:21:20,079 INFO     MainThread Setting MBUS meters: {"heatmeter": {"address": "7", "type": "sontex449"}}
2022-12-20 22:21:20,079 DEBUG    MainThread Setting MBUS pubchannels: ['ToEmonCMS']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,080 INFO     MainThread Creating EmonHubRFM69LPLInterfacer 'SPI'
2022-12-20 22:21:20,085 INFO     MainThread Creating RFM69 LowPowerLabs interfacer
2022-12-20 22:21:20,085 INFO     MainThread node_id = 5
2022-12-20 22:21:20,085 INFO     MainThread network_id = 210
2022-12-20 22:21:20,086 INFO     MainThread Starting radio setup
2022-12-20 22:21:20,186 ERROR    MainThread Could not connect to RFM69 module
2022-12-20 22:21:20,186 DEBUG    MainThread Setting SPI pubchannels: ['ToEmonCMS']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,187 INFO     MainThread Creating EmonHubMqttInterfacer 'MQTT'
2022-12-20 22:21:20,187 DEBUG    MainThread Setting MQTT pubchannels: ['ToRFM12']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,187 DEBUG    MainThread Setting MQTT subchannels: ['ToEmonCMS']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,187 INFO     MainThread Setting MQTT node_format_enable: 0
2022-12-20 22:21:20,188 INFO     MainThread Setting MQTT nodevar_format_enable: 1
2022-12-20 22:21:20,188 INFO     MainThread Setting MQTT nodevar_format_basetopic: emon/
2022-12-20 22:21:20,188 INFO     MainThread Setting MQTT node_JSON_enable: 0
2022-12-20 22:21:20,188 INFO     MainThread Creating EmonHubEmoncmsHTTPInterfacer 'emoncmsorg'
2022-12-20 22:21:20,189 DEBUG    MainThread Setting emoncmsorg interval: 30
2022-12-20 22:21:20,189 DEBUG    MainThread Setting emoncmsorg pubchannels: ['ToRFM12']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,189 DEBUG    MainThread Setting emoncmsorg subchannels: ['ToEmonCMS']
2022-12-20 22:21:20,189 WARNING  MainThread Setting emoncmsorg apikey: obscured
2022-12-20 22:21:20,189 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg url: https://emoncms.org
2022-12-20 22:21:20,190 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg senddata: 1
2022-12-20 22:21:20,190 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg sendstatus: 0
2022-12-20 22:21:20,190 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg sendnames: 1
2022-12-20 22:21:20,190 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg compress: 0
2022-12-20 22:21:20,190 DEBUG    MainThread Automatic configuration of nodes enabled
2022-12-20 22:59:45,693 INFO     MainThread Setting MBUS read_interval: 10
2022-12-20 22:59:45,693 INFO     MainThread Setting MBUS validate_checksum: False
2022-12-20 22:59:45,693 INFO     MainThread Setting MBUS meters: {"heatmeter": {"address": "7", "type": "sontex449"}}
2022-12-20 22:59:45,693 INFO     MainThread Creating EmonHubDS18B20Interfacer 'DS18B20'
2022-12-20 22:59:45,713 INFO     MainThread Setting DS18B20 read_interval: 10
2022-12-20 22:59:45,713 INFO     MainThread Setting DS18B20 nodename: sensors
2022-12-20 22:59:45,713 INFO     MainThread Setting DS18B20 ids: 
2022-12-20 22:59:45,714 INFO     MainThread Setting DS18B20 names: 
2022-12-20 22:59:45,714 DEBUG    MainThread Setting DS18B20 pubchannels: ['ToEmonCMS']
2022-12-20 22:59:45,715 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg senddata: 1
2022-12-20 22:59:45,715 INFO     MainThread Setting emoncmsorg sendnames: 1[quote="Satwelsh, post:14, topic:22188, full:true"]

Evening all, so sorry everyone I now have this in feeds, am I getting anywhere or does it mean nothing.

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It doesn’t look like you’re reading any data from the Sontex, it will show up in the Inputs first.

Did you manage to set the Sontex ID?

I see your config is still using an ID of 7, are you sure this is the correct MBUS ID for your meter? All meters have random IDs to start with. You need to find out what the ID is using the LCD or use the scritp I linked above to set the ID

Please post your emonhub.conf

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#######################################################################
#######################      emonhub.conf     #########################
#######################################################################
### emonHub configuration file, for info see documentation:
### https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonhub/blob/emon-pi/configuration.md
#######################################################################
#######################    emonHub  settings    #######################
#######################################################################

[hub]
    ### loglevel must be one of DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL
    loglevel = DEBUG
    autoconf = 1
### Uncomment this to also send to syslog
# use_syslog = yes
#######################################################################
#######################       Interfacers       #######################
#######################################################################

[interfacers]
    ### This interfacer manages the RFM12Pi/RFM69Pi/emonPi module
    [[EmonPi2]]
        Type = EmonHubOEMInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
            com_port = /dev/ttyAMA0
            com_baud = 38400
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,
            subchannels = ToRFM12,

    [[USB0]]
        Type = EmonHubOEMInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
            com_port = /dev/ttyUSB0
            com_baud = 115200
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,
            subchannels = ToRFM12,
            nodename = emonTx4

       [[MBUS]]
    Type = EmonHubMBUSInterfacer
    [[[init_settings]]]
        device = /dev/ttyAMA0
        baud = 2400
    [[[runtimesettings]]]
        pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,
        read_interval = 10
        validate_checksum = False
        nodename = MBUS
        [[[[meters]]]]
            [[[[[heatmeter]]]]]
                address = 7
                type = sontex449

 [[ DS18B20]]
    Type = EmonHubDS18B20Interfacer
    [[[init_settings]]]
    [[[runtimesettings]]]
        pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,
        read_interval = 10
        nodename = sensors
        # ids = 28-000008e2db06, 28-000009770529, 28-0000096a49b4
        # names = ambient, cyl_bot, cyl_top


     [[SPI]]
        Type = EmonHubRFM69LPLInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
            nodeid = 5
            networkID = 210
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToEmonCMS,

    [[MQTT]]
        Type = EmonHubMqttInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
            mqtt_host = 127.0.0.1
            mqtt_port = 1883
            mqtt_user = emonpi
            mqtt_passwd = emonpimqtt2016
        
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToRFM12,
            subchannels = ToEmonCMS,
            
            # emonhub/rx/10/values format
            # Use with emoncms Nodes module
            node_format_enable = 0
            node_format_basetopic = emonhub/
            
            # emon/emontx/power1 format - use with Emoncms MQTT input
            # http://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/docs/RaspberryPi/MQTT.md
            nodevar_format_enable = 1
            nodevar_format_basetopic = emon/
            
            # Single JSON payload published  - use with Emoncms MQTT
            node_JSON_enable = 0
            node_JSON_basetopic = emon/
    
    [[emoncmsorg]]
        Type = EmonHubEmoncmsHTTPInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToRFM12,
            subchannels = ToEmonCMS,
            url = https://emoncms.org
            apikey = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
            senddata = 1    # Enable sending data to Emoncms.org
            sendnames = 1    # Send full input names (compression will be automatically enabled)
            interval = 30    # Bulk send interval to Emoncms.org in seconds

#######################################################################
#######################          Nodes          #######################
#######################################################################

## See config user guide: https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonhub
## If autoconf is enabled above, node configuration will automatically
## populate based on templates listed in available.conf
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type = sontex449 is not correct, you should use type = standard

see my post above

Have you set the MBUS ID as detailed in the post above?

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It may also be worth trying type = sontex531, we don’t have experience reading from the Sontex449, so I can’t say for sure. Let me know if you want me to take a look via remote access.