# emonTx4 basic setup to emoncms

**URL:** <https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785>\
**Category:** Getting Started\
**Created:** [6 February 2023 21:01 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785 "2023-02-06T21:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/shaunuk)\
**Post date:** [6 February 2023 21:01 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/1 "2023-02-06T21:01:23Z")

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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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**Author:** ![borpin](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/user_avatar/community.openenergymonitor.org/borpin/32/193_2.png) [@borpin](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/borpin)\
**Post date:** [6 February 2023 21:27 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/2 "2023-02-06T21:27:14Z")

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> [@shaunuk](#):
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> emonTx4 is on the wifi, in the web interface I can see power readings coming through.

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

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**Author:** ![glyn.hudson](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/user_avatar/community.openenergymonitor.org/glyn.hudson/32/35003_2.png) [@glyn.hudson](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/glyn.hudson)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2023 00:53 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/3 "2023-02-07T00:53:46Z")

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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](https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/emoncms/intro-rpi.html)

The process is the same for local or remote emoncms.

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**Author:** ![shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/shaunuk)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2023 09:39 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/4 "2023-02-07T09:39:18Z")

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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

 ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 at 09.38.40](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/a/5a2ce8a647b1905359a6a41ed982557589ce63ec.png)

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**Author:** ![shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/shaunuk)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2023 09:42 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/5 "2023-02-07T09:42:52Z")

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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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**Author:** ![borpin](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/user_avatar/community.openenergymonitor.org/borpin/32/193_2.png) [@borpin](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/borpin)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2023 11:21 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/6 "2023-02-07T11:21:31Z")

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> [@shaunuk](#):
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> local, when the auto launch wifi menu pops up I can see the data there

Read through this page especially this section [emonCMS: Getting started emonPi/Base — OpenEnergyMonitor 0.0.1 documentation](https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/emoncms/intro-rpi.html#logging-data-locally)

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

> [@shaunuk](#):
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> ill go back to the site

Which site - still your Local emoncms?

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**Author:** ![shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@shaunuk](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/shaunuk)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2023 18:15 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emontx4-basic-setup-to-emoncms/22785/7 "2023-02-07T18:15:39Z")

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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