emonTx4 basic setup to emoncms

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Hi,

First time user, received emonTx4 with the voltage sense plug thing. CT’s are attached, emonTx4 is on the wifi, in the web interface I can see power readings coming through.

Now I would like to be able to see some graphs, I have made an account on emoncms.

The next bits I guessed, I got a read and write api key from my account and pasted it into the emonTx4, it says its connected.

I then had to leave the site, and hoped it would just send everything to emoncms and I could set it up later… Now its later and I don’t know what to do…

Any help for a newbe…

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Coming through to where? the remote emoncms (emoncms.org) or your local emoncms? They are completely independent.

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It sounds like you need to log Input to Feeds to start recording data, see: emonCMS: Getting started emonPi/Base — OpenEnergyMonitor 0.0.1 documentation

The process is the same for local or remote emoncms.

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local, when the auto launch wifi menu pops up I can see the data there, live readouts, but nothing shows on a graph, emoncms only has one or two inputs available

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ill go back to the site and see if I can do something to get the inputs to show up, hopefully then they will push to emoncms automatically

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Read through this page especially this section emonCMS: Getting started emonPi/Base — OpenEnergyMonitor 0.0.1 documentation

Inputs is just data being received. You then need to log it to a Feed - that is then the storage of the data.

Which site - still your Local emoncms?

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thanks for the info chaps, ive worked it out, I was close but some glitch stopped it working, deleted the inputs and then put the read write key back into the local emonTx4 and it started pushing.

Its a case of first timer working out all the setup glitches.

Next problem, is I left it logging, and it worked for two hours and then stopped.

So ill go back again tomorrow to try and see whats up

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