Future of EmonPi?

steve-oemon · 2023-05-13T21:16:17.029Z

Hi,

I remember reading somewhere that you were working on the next generation of hardware, but I can’t find where I was reading it. Looking in the shop, the main motoring products listed are the EmonTX and EmonBase. I get that EmonBase is for receiving and recording info from an emonTX or similar.

I guess what I’m asking is is the emonpi basically a discontinued product, replaced by emontx & emonbase, or will it be back sometime?

rupert · 2023-05-14T00:10:42.044Z

see:

EmonTx4 DS18B20 Temperature sensing & firmware release 1.5.7 emonTx

Thanks both, Im happy with my solution above for now and will keep an eye on reliability issues from it’s use. The other option on the EmonTx4 is to offload the temperature sensing to an ESP8266 expander board. Il try and put together an example of how to do this. We are also bringing out the emonPi2 in a few months time (I need to do a forum post on this), temperature sensing is handled by the RaspberryPi on the emonPi2. If someone does have a lot of trouble with temperature sensing reliabili…

rupert · 2023-05-14T07:46:49.191Z

also see:

GitHub

GitHub - openenergymonitor/emonpi2: RaspberryPi Energy Monitor v2

RaspberryPi Energy Monitor v2. Contribute to openenergymonitor/emonpi2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

for more details of the development …

steve-oemon · 2023-05-14T18:07:04.706Z

Many thanks!

Robert.Wall · 2023-05-14T18:36:51.330Z

Because I don’t understand, therefore never go near, Github, I didn’t know this information was in the public domain. Thus I didn’t feel able to comment earlier. It’s my understanding that the emonTx4 will in essence be the same unit, so it will also run emonLibDB.

rupert · 2023-05-15T11:28:43.840Z

@Robert.Wall
Well, I only use Github as a consumer - to look at the contents of a repository online, or to download a zip file of the contents using the green ‘Code’ button. I’ve still to learn how to use it for software development!

arc12 · 2023-05-20T12:50:41.376Z

So…
while I see this marked as “solved”, the post #3 only refers to the future, rather than including information concerning the question of emonpi (v1) discontinuation, and whether discontinuation means “no longer available” or “… and no longer supported”.
I DO appreciate that the scale of operations of OEM is small, but I would be a bit grumbly if the existing platform were completely abandoned. For example, moving the Pi OS onto a Bullseye base should IMO be on the to-do list before sunsetting emompi v1 (i.e. updating the emonSD).

Cheers, Adam

borpin · 2023-05-22T06:05:52.687Z

arc12:

moving the Pi OS onto a Bullseye base

Pretty sure it already is (I lose track of the various names). The latest SD Card Image was released last Nov emonSD Download — OpenEnergyMonitor 0.0.1 documentation. Having said that @TrystanLea it is about time there was a new emonSD release You can always build your own with the emonScripts which is very straightforward.

There is no suggestion the emonPi will stop being supported. The opposite in some ways, there have been some recent firmware updates IIRC.

TrystanLea · 2023-06-03T20:25:51.456Z

borpin:

There is no suggestion the emonPi will stop being supported. The opposite in some ways, there have been some recent firmware updates IIRC.

Yes as @borpin mentioned, no plans to discontinue support for emonpi v1 latest emonpi v1 firmware both ensures compatibility with the new lowpowerlabs radio format that we are using as standard on the newer hardware and makes @Robert.Wall’s earlier work on continuous sampling easier to install on the emonpi v1 via the standard emoncms update mechanism.

It’s just the emonpi v1 hardware that we will no longer be manufacturing.